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Im a housekeeper at my local hospital, and if a patient starts talking to me and shows no signs of stopping, i always make the time to chat. Sometimes people have no family, friends, etc and being in there day in and day out can get so lonely. Ive heard some pretty amazing stories, and even made some connections. These chats make my day ❤ But if i walk into a room where a patient is sleeping, i try my best to clean the room as quiet as possible so they get as much rest as they can
16:43 As a hospital pharmacist, this is 100% accurate - and that post barely scratches the surface. The amount of mistakes hospital prescribers make is astounding (not in a good way).
I was on leave, with my wife, to attend my brother’s wedding, and the day after I got a phone call from my sister that our father was in the hospital. He was still awake and aware when we got there, but they wanted to put him under later that day so that they could attempt to surgically deal with the massive pancreatic inflammation. We all had time with him before he went under, and after my leave was up, a week or so worth of surgeries later, we went to fly home, so I could preserve as many days of leave as I could, just in case. At the airport layover, I got another call, and things had taken a dramatic turn for the worse. My dad was not going to come out of this. I was told that I should come back, and distinctly remember being told by my siblings that they would do everything they could to keep my dad going until I could fly back, full code. I’d had regular CPR training all through my career, and more often than not, we were told that there was a high likelihood that we would hear ribs cracking, if we were doing it right. I also had had a manager once who told us that every once in a while, his heart rhythm would get off kilter, and he’d have to hang out in the ER until it stabilized. On one occasion, they told him that they could shock it back into a normal rhythm, so he could get going and get back to his day, and one time he said “sure, why not?” He only did that once, because he said he spent the next couple of days feeling like he’d gotten kicked in the chest. So, between what I knew about CPR and defibrillation, when my family said they’d keep him going any way they could, so I could get there to see him before he passed, I flat out refused and forbade it. There was absolutely no way I would subject my father to that kind of physical trauma, just so I could see his body breathe in and out a few more times. I don’t fault my siblings for what they’d directed, before I refused. Most people do not have any idea about what’s really involved in a code, or how much it beats up on the patient who goes through it. I’m glad that I knew it, though, and could spare my dad that kind of physical trauma, since he was going to go regardless.
I'm a food service worker of over 20 years. Of all the kitchens I worked in, the hospital was one of the most trifling, unregulated and unsanitary. And it was a religious (Catholic) one.
I’m glad the nurses we’re judging my a**hole ex while I was giving birth and he was complaining how long we’d been there, how hungry and uncomfortable HE was , because I sure didn’t have the courage to advocate for myself back then
23:11 I realize that some people lie, but please remember that some people don’t. Being treated like a liar when I’ve told the truth is detrimental to the whole interaction. If you think I’m lying, how can I trust that you’re treating my issues instead of whatever you suppose the truth is. And how stupid would it be for me to lie when the truth is how you would figure out what the problem is and how to treat it?
I paused it for laughing about the hospital pharmacy story, I have only worked retail, but I have done many of the same calls... like did you mean to give this newborn a lethal dose of iron? Did you mean to write this vaginal cream for this cis man? Ah I miss the fun of saving lives over silly mistakes.😅
Wdym? Cause they say sometimes you shouldn't 'do everything' to try to save someone? Well, when I was 12 my mom got sick for several months, she finally saw her doctor and was sent to the hospital, within 2 weeks she was in a coma and on a vent, within 3 she was dead. In her last hours, at some point, my dad called off all the life-saving measures, she didn't look like herself anymore, she was so swollen, more attenpts to save her would likely not have helped, she was already gone. We were just prolonging her suffering at that point.
