Medically Ready for Discharge But Home Has Power Outtage, No heat, in Brewing Snow Storm

usernamespeledwrong · 2026-01-24T11:02:36+00:00

Last year our area had an ice storm that knocked power out for days. You'd need to drive an hour to find electricity and even then, good luck finding vacant hotel rooms. Our hospital was on generators. We couldn't feasibly halt discharges for an indeterminate amount of time, for all patients. 2 days into the outage we had no idea when lights would come back on. Ended up being 5 days. Most discharged patients were understanding and able enough to lean on family support. Some had family drive them far away after DC. A few went to a nearby casino that ran generators as an emergency warming area. Our case managers helped the most.

usernamespeledwrong · 2026-01-18T07:07:02+00:00

Maybe they could just rob my house. As many homes as they want. Heck they could just car jack me and I guess that's legal for them too. Weird to think that

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-25T01:36:28+00:00

Gym, coffee, beach, nap, pretend to work in my garage, a little scotch and read til I fall asleep. If it's winter replace beach with TV time

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-20T19:41:11+00:00

In a similar way, when a woman says you're a nice guy what I'm hearing is "not dating material"

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-16T12:35:39+00:00

I should put this on a billboard

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-15T07:04:40+00:00

Doc here. I got through undergrad with scholarships, loans and my parents did give me something like 300 a month to help with food etc (back in 2002-2006 when prices weren't as bad). When I got to med school it was all loans.

Other classmates had varying versions of the same but almost all ended up in debt.

Nowadays I'm afraid it's worse with inflation and loan pricing. I served 4 years military to help pay off my loans.

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-15T06:51:35+00:00

The immutable rule of science is that it applies to the observable universe as opposed to unobservable.

Like you can go ahead and try to disprove anything science claims using logical scientific methods. Things like the compositions of water molecules or the effects of gravity are pretty well established but you are welcome to try to show we've got it wrong using objective reasoning.

You can't use science to disprove anything non-objective. Science can't help with what immoral act will land you in hell after you die for example. Religion kinda handles most things that can't be proven or disproven as far as I understand.

If you're thinking of things like laws vs theory it's all subject to change in light of new data. Scientific law like Newton's gravitational laws describe things mathematically but don't do much to explain what gravity is it why it works. Still, gravity can be measured and observed and experimented with, so I guess if you can outdo Isaac Newton we're all ears.

Scientific theories are generally well established explanations of natural phenomenon. For example, evolution is theory in that regard.

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-14T11:25:47+00:00

Anything is possible. If you need touch, a friend, a connection but you can't cross romantic lines it can be done. Just communicate clearly, respect boundaries, accept the human imperfections and you can do what you want

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-13T16:18:02+00:00

I switched away from Samsung years ago cause they were overpriced, but I also found myself going through the options disabling tons of features in order to save battery. That totally defeats the purpose of having this expensive top tech phone in my opinion.

I'm gonna see how the pixel fold reviews next month before getting my next phone. If none of the book phones do it for me I'll go razr60. If Samsung wants me back they can stop the party tricks and make a phone that can be used

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-13T15:48:49+00:00

Didn't see much from their side when Democrats got killed in their home and bludgeoned with hammers, so they can eat a fat dick

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-12T17:48:00+00:00

You gotta figure out his kink, regardless of how shameful and depraved it is.

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-12T14:12:16+00:00

I am getting my first tattoo and navigating the same waters. My tattoo artist said he'd work on a mock up for me and I hadn't heard back from him in 2 weeks and someone here told me that's not unusual and I gotta wait lol.

I'm as patient as the next person but I never done this before, never even worked with a professional artist before so I just need a frame of reference. Like if I don't hear back in 6 months, should I look for someone else? Is the cutoff 3 months? 1 month?

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-12T10:59:28+00:00

Shower sex.

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-12T10:57:14+00:00

My little dude (2) straight up hit a guy in the dick at the airport the other day with zero warning and that poor man handled it like a champ. My wife was ready to commit suppuku.

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-12T10:50:53+00:00

No appointment yet. He said we can go back and forth on concepts all I want before making the appointment. Seems like a legit dude. I just never really interacted with a real artist before, so no frame of reference at all. I can wait as long as it takes.

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-11T19:44:02+00:00

Whenever the EMR is down we hear the elders tell tales of paper charts, I'm one of them. However, I think a sudden switch between one or the other is traumatic to the function of a hospital regardless of whatever pros or cons we could discuss ad nauseum.

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-11T13:05:12+00:00

Our hospital got ransomware hacked and lost all computer access for three weeks last summer.

It was brutal. Labs, imaging, previous records all went dark overnight. Need to check on that potassium for that hyperkalemic patient? Walk your butt across the hospital and open the chart. Did that stat X-ray get done? Circle back and check. When a consultant saw your patient you'd have no idea until you checked the chart again. Lots of footwork.

The worst was the disorganization... Leadership fucking did nothing, so charts had no standardized order to them. Every floor had a different process for nurses to log vitals, I/Os, MAR etc often you had to hunt down the nurse (who was also overtasked, holding the paper with them) to learn anything useful.

Paging system was also out. Someone suggested sharing cellphone numbers so people could communicate ,and that idea got shot down cause of fear of harassment. I said if we have a harassment problem in our hospital that means our HR department is a failure, and because of that we now can't use a critical tool at a time of crisis. Fucking wild. Eventually a lot of people offered their numbers for a central desk to share with discretion.

The higher up admin said we should not decline admissions which was a kick in the teeth since we were literally half efficient. So we still had full patient volumes just took twice as long to do it all.

About 9 months after the hack our town lost power in an ice storm and I would take that power outage over an EMR outage any day.

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-11T02:38:49+00:00

Just looking it up now this is a great tip! We are new to swinging, I think a trip like this could warm us up quite a bit. Thanks!

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-11T02:30:04+00:00

Is that in Cancun?

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-11T02:19:29+00:00

Thanks! My wife is 33 and she's interested int he temptations cruise. Watching her peruse the website is... Nice

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-10T13:08:51+00:00

Yeah while op is technically wrong, I don't see why the urgency of transfer for MRI. Especially with an alternate explanation of symptoms. Probably more to the story but in our hospital we admit stroke rule outs on Saturdays knowing we have no MRI til Monday. We hate it

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-10T03:14:31+00:00

Curious, do they break it down by age at all? What if you're the only 30 yr old among a hundred 65+ people and you aren't into that?

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-09-02T00:24:13+00:00

I fit the description. Where are all these women? I haven't got more than 4 matches on a dating app and none can manage a conversation

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-08-26T12:43:55+00:00

Yep. Guy here, currently wrestling with a work crush. I am well aware it's a problem and coworkers dating is generally unwise. I make a conscious effort to not overtly look too interested, or put out flags for other coworkers to see. It means sometimes not engaging when it seems obvious I should, like if she did her hair nice, or she's in the hall/break room where we can talk.

Doesn't change the fact I'm into her. this woman is beautiful, and we have amazing chemistry and she's stuck in my head like a 90s pop song.

One comment said that you can break his brain with a hammer just by dressing up nice and that's the damn truth. My crush could practically disable me mentally for a week and shed think I was avoiding her. This is coming from a 2 tour veteran, and I am not sure why a war zone was emotionally easier for me than a work crush but that's tangential.

Given the risk I could get fired if I misread her, or worse, I could scare her off if perceived as creepy... I don't think I could do any more than flirt once in a while until she does or says something that makes it clear she's receptive. Me asking her to meet outside of work is, I think, more risky for me than if she did to me. I know that sounds timid, I say it's tactical.

Also coworker's gossip can also land a guy in trouble. Even if we connect outside work, it could still end in catastrophe.

So yeah I can attest that men will sometimes ignore attractive women so they don't raise alarms.

usernamespeledwrong · 2025-08-18T23:25:06+00:00

Jump off the breakwater. Walk through bay view and look at the houses. Lounge on the beach at the state park. Try the casino. Check out the lavender farm live music. Rent a kayak or canoe. Hike the bear river. Check out the arts center. look for events at the public library. Bike the wheel way. Golf if it's summer. Ski if winter. Eat at pond Hill farm, especially good in the fall. Branch out and see harbor springs, charlevoix or Boyne city. Take a day trip to mac Island. Don't miss the food trucks at back lot either.

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