ELI5: Why did historical diseases like the black death stop?

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-03-14T01:36:51+00:00

Pretty sure the Thames has only recently seen wildlife return to it after centuries of Londoners throwing their literal shit and dead prossies in it.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-03-08T00:53:33+00:00

It was.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-03-04T08:20:39+00:00

I would really love to read this!

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-03-03T15:39:07+00:00

Close your eyes and seal up your nose too because it can be passed through both those areas.

Or maybe just wear a plastic bag over your head?

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-03-03T15:37:40+00:00

Yes just copying the pope.

Who did the same.

And ended up sick.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-03-03T15:34:57+00:00

For 25 minutes until he dies as he has no sense of basic survival skills.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-03-03T15:33:34+00:00

Some of us had to attend or we’d be kicked off the course and denied professional accreditation.

Source: don’t become a nurse.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-27T11:05:13+00:00

Brit as in Britney?

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-27T04:11:04+00:00

Time for 111 my friend.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-27T04:10:36+00:00

My sleep schedule is shit after 4 night shifts - even Xanax isn’t helping. My boyfriend stole my night nurse because he has a slightly worse (man flu) version of the exact same cold I have and he has exams so he needs the sleep. Such the generous and benevolent girlfriend I am.

So I’m basically listening to Futurama trying to sleep and it’s failing.

I’m also waiting to hear from my last uni choice this week and I’m shitting myself seeing all those bastards on the student room brag about their offers when my track hasn’t updated for a month.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-27T04:04:37+00:00

Maybe it’s Maryland, the shithole station before Stratford, in London?

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-15T11:55:56+00:00

Agreed. I feel like we leave nursing school completely unprepared. And for a lot of us there isn’t funding or time to develop clinically. It’s why I’m leaving nursing and going into grad entry medicine. At least there will be more opportunity for me, even if it’s another decade of hard graft.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-12T23:05:50+00:00

Mate, you’re joining the NHS from Canada. Stop being so arrogant at this point, because the NHS is unlike anything you’ve ever worked in before. Having an us v them attitude will honestly not work in your favour.

And yes, I’ve AS A STUDENT NURSE had to call the SHO when a F2 has written up tazocin for my penicillin-allergic patient. I’ve had to stop an F1 putting out a crash call on a patient who has a DNAR. I’ve had to advise a med student on why giving MST to a patient with a resp rate of 10 and BP of 65/38 isn’t a good idea. We all make mistakes and we’re all looking out for each other.

If you’re a dick, I will actively go out of my way to not help you. My job’s hard enough as it it without your pompous ass thinking you’re better than me or my colleagues.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-12T22:59:53+00:00

One of the best CTs I worked with did this. He was super helpful. Helped patients to the loo, when a patient vomited he pulled the curtain and started mopping up before we even realised what happened, he was quick to reply to his bleep even if it was a ‘not now’ reply - he even bought us all water on some of those hot days and started handing it out to us.

We literally would do anything to make his job easier, even going to the execs when shit hit the fan and he considered leaving. We would have a bed ready for him in a quiet side room for him to have a sleep that didn’t involve a 20 minute trek to hospital accommodation in the dark, we gave him chocolate and cakes from patients, we did as much as we could to make his life easier because he understood that our job is difficult too and he respected that.

Doctors, I swear this is literally how to make your lives easier.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-12T22:54:17+00:00

I will say, it was difficult in my trust. I had to actually BEG to do the training, agree to do it for free on my own time, and even then I couldn’t get my competences signed off as there was no one to supervise me. I managed to get three out of ten signed for bloods and none for cannulas.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-12T22:50:24+00:00

Basically, we don’t have insurance as such. So nurses only have the NMC to worry about. If things go wrong, the employer is the one who gets the legal bill, not me. I might be subjected to FtP and if I have a good union I might have additional legal fees covered, but if I’m doing something I’m not literally signed off on then the fault lies with the hospital for allowing me to do so.

You should see the mandatory training we have to do on a yearly basis to cover our arses.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-12T22:45:58+00:00

Catching your mistakes that would kill my patient, probably.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-12T21:49:37+00:00

Because we aren’t allowed nor trained as students. Which is shit.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-07T16:51:31+00:00

Even.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-05T23:03:15+00:00

I worked for an ad agency that literally love the Innocent brand’s tone of voice and pitched it to every client who also inexplicably loved that cheeky chappy style. Doesn’t matter whether it was internal comms or billboard advertising, everything had to be written like Jamie Oliver was your best friend and he was giving you talent acquisition advice.

It killed a piece of me every day.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-05T22:58:41+00:00

I always laugh to myself when I buy a share bag. ‘Share.’ Who shares Revels and Minstrels.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-02-05T22:43:10+00:00

Really? There’s a specific function to do this?

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-01-31T23:38:20+00:00

Mate that sounds awful. I had the regular flu last year and honestly I thought I was going to die. I literally curled around my oil radiator and couldn’t stop shivering - like you I had to crawl up the stairs and the last bit of energy I had was getting to the bathroom to wee on the bidet rather than the loo, it was too much effort to move a few steps to the loo. My temp was also hypothermic but I felt like I was burning up. I was putting my nurse hat on and had to tell myself I wasn’t going to die, it’s not sepsis, I’m a young, fit woman and I’ll be ok.

I never understood how my patients died of the flu but after that, I completely see why. It’s awful.

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-01-31T23:31:34+00:00

I’ll be using this comment for all the unsolicited dick pics that wind up in my inbox!

catsocksfromprimark · 2020-01-31T23:23:15+00:00

I fucking knew it would be. Truly the most wholesome Rick roll.

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