For profit healthcare sucks big time. IMHO this is a real crisis because there is only a certain percentage of people who can do this kind of work, mentally. So your pool of potential workers is limited already. I'm going to visit my folks in Boise for Thanksgiving. We were planning on going out for dinner on Friday so I was looking at restaurants. Checking out their Covid protocols. I was astonished and disgusted that most of them have some minor testing requirements for their employees but virtually no rules at all for the patrons. Just last week I went to a restaurant in Western Washington and had to show proof of vaccination. Some States just don't give a FUCK about their healthcare workers. They're entitled to them and expect them to be there when needed.
My sister was running a Twitter page with health care worker obits in the US. She stopped at one year (March 2021) once it looked like the vaccine rollout was going well. She restarted with delta and had to stop again recently because it was so depressing listing obits of unvaccinated healthcare workers (there was a couple exceptions but mostly unvaccinated)
So in addition to leaving the profession, there has also been a huge loss of knowledge due to death
I (nurse practitioner) work at a VA hospital- we have had staff loss but not like in private hospitals- mostly I think what has helped has been that federal benefits are generally desirable. But we have lost some staff due to the vaccine mandate (no loss in my opinion)
I empathize with the hospital staff burnout; us pharmacy staff aren’t doing much better. Almost none of the local doctors or medical facilities are doing anything with the vaccine, and now that we have to immunize the little ones we’re at a minimum 50 vaccines a day. This is on top of, you know, running a pharmacy, and whether it’s someone waiting for a vaccine or a script, neither can seem to get through their skulls that an increasing workload with the same amount of staff means things are gonna take a bit longer. Especially when no one can keep an appointment or have anything prepared to save their damn lives.I also lost count of the last time I didn’t get a desperate text from another store on a day off begging me to pick up an extra shift; I’m averaging close to 50 hours a week this year. And corporate saw fit to reward us with a flipping 40 cent raise this month. Might as well have given us coal at Christmas..,
Weird, my post got marked as spam. I guess we have some health care industry execs lurking about and cancel culturing posts that put them in a bad light.
Either that or the porn bot that I reported and blocked is seeking revenge.
Next time I'll compose offline and copy paste so I can repost. That one was long and involved some work, I emailed Dok so maybe he can fix it.
NOTICEI've tried to repost the text here a half dozen times, but can't get Disqus to let it stick for more than a minute. I may just put it up on another page and link to it. It isn't anything but my own observations, but getting cancel cultured here by some bot or lurker just makes me stubborn.
Well, I'm a practicing god-botherer myself - so I truly appreciate it. I've just heard from my friends and they are just fine with going out for Thanksgiving. I gave them the option of DOING NOTHING - but am glad they thought it was important that we got together.
Bless all y’all’s hearts! MS, being at risk, had already been routed to a booster by his oncologist. I’d gotten my two Modernas at WalMart (from an utterly painless vaxxer) and phoned them today to schedule mine, Got someone at a call center who confirmed my local store will have Moderna booster ready & waiting at 10:40am tmw😘. Neighbor is a 60+ nurse waiting for SocSec to kick in, so she can comfortably retire from the same facility where our Congressman, Andy fucking Harris MD, is currently fielding a medical society complaint for prescribing Ivermectin. His defense, if you can imagine such a thing, is that, as an anesthesiologist, he has OFTEN Rx-ed off-label drugs that were far more dangerous!Oh, really? Do tell...
My mom was an ER nurse for decades, and I’m glad she’s been retired for years, both for her physical and mental health. It’s highly unlikely that she would have slapped unvaccinated patients up one side and down the other, but not impossible.
My other two siblings work in healthcare as well. One is an athletic trainer who had to get a total knee replacement at 46 after she raced down a hallway and made a sharp turn into the gym, where a college freshman with a previously undiagnosed heart condition had collapsed during drills. Sister ignored the pain in her torn knee in order to perform CPR, which saved the student’s life.
Other sister is a Physical Therapist at the VA hospital, which operated for months without adequate PPE, meaning she had to reuse masks over and over.
For those healthcare providers in the thick of it - like Mrs. Land Shark - I honestly don’t know how they’ve done it for so long. It’s one thing when vaccines weren’t available. It’s another thing now that we do have vaccines, and the majority of those in hospitals and ICU’s are the ones who refuse to get vaxxed. I can’t imagine how frustrating and exhausting that must be for healthcare workers.
Economic theories don't kill. Implementation by greedy assholes kill. Stop blaming a theory, blame the people. You like to get paid for your work, don't you?
A month ago my son was turned away from ER because he wasn't having a heart attack or a stroke and he could breathe.
The fact that he was white, clammy, without energy, vaccinated, and his testicle was dying from lack of blood-- which no one knew because hey, the unvaxxed are so important that there was no room at the inn-- were no tests run until we brought him back a day later, oh well.
He's fine now. We think.
I don't see why unvaxxed Covidiots rank people who are suffering through no fault of their own.
For profit healthcare sucks big time. IMHO this is a real crisis because there is only a certain percentage of people who can do this kind of work, mentally. So your pool of potential workers is limited already. I'm going to visit my folks in Boise for Thanksgiving. We were planning on going out for dinner on Friday so I was looking at restaurants. Checking out their Covid protocols. I was astonished and disgusted that most of them have some minor testing requirements for their employees but virtually no rules at all for the patrons. Just last week I went to a restaurant in Western Washington and had to show proof of vaccination. Some States just don't give a FUCK about their healthcare workers. They're entitled to them and expect them to be there when needed.
My sister was running a Twitter page with health care worker obits in the US. She stopped at one year (March 2021) once it looked like the vaccine rollout was going well. She restarted with delta and had to stop again recently because it was so depressing listing obits of unvaccinated healthcare workers (there was a couple exceptions but mostly unvaccinated)
So in addition to leaving the profession, there has also been a huge loss of knowledge due to death
I (nurse practitioner) work at a VA hospital- we have had staff loss but not like in private hospitals- mostly I think what has helped has been that federal benefits are generally desirable. But we have lost some staff due to the vaccine mandate (no loss in my opinion)
I empathize with the hospital staff burnout; us pharmacy staff aren’t doing much better. Almost none of the local doctors or medical facilities are doing anything with the vaccine, and now that we have to immunize the little ones we’re at a minimum 50 vaccines a day. This is on top of, you know, running a pharmacy, and whether it’s someone waiting for a vaccine or a script, neither can seem to get through their skulls that an increasing workload with the same amount of staff means things are gonna take a bit longer. Especially when no one can keep an appointment or have anything prepared to save their damn lives.I also lost count of the last time I didn’t get a desperate text from another store on a day off begging me to pick up an extra shift; I’m averaging close to 50 hours a week this year. And corporate saw fit to reward us with a flipping 40 cent raise this month. Might as well have given us coal at Christmas..,
I have not much looked into that but Nixon was the source of a great deal of stench in the second half of the 20th century.
Weird, my post got marked as spam. I guess we have some health care industry execs lurking about and cancel culturing posts that put them in a bad light.
Either that or the porn bot that I reported and blocked is seeking revenge.
Next time I'll compose offline and copy paste so I can repost. That one was long and involved some work, I emailed Dok so maybe he can fix it.
NOTICEI've tried to repost the text here a half dozen times, but can't get Disqus to let it stick for more than a minute. I may just put it up on another page and link to it. It isn't anything but my own observations, but getting cancel cultured here by some bot or lurker just makes me stubborn.
I am neither doctor nor nurse but I am a health care worker. I couldn’t abandon my clients .
Well, I'm a practicing god-botherer myself - so I truly appreciate it. I've just heard from my friends and they are just fine with going out for Thanksgiving. I gave them the option of DOING NOTHING - but am glad they thought it was important that we got together.
Yeah, that threw me, too. I've never thought that or seen it put that way anywhere.
Bless all y’all’s hearts! MS, being at risk, had already been routed to a booster by his oncologist. I’d gotten my two Modernas at WalMart (from an utterly painless vaxxer) and phoned them today to schedule mine, Got someone at a call center who confirmed my local store will have Moderna booster ready & waiting at 10:40am tmw😘. Neighbor is a 60+ nurse waiting for SocSec to kick in, so she can comfortably retire from the same facility where our Congressman, Andy fucking Harris MD, is currently fielding a medical society complaint for prescribing Ivermectin. His defense, if you can imagine such a thing, is that, as an anesthesiologist, he has OFTEN Rx-ed off-label drugs that were far more dangerous!Oh, really? Do tell...
p.s. Dok, thanks everso for this vital and comprehensive article.
In Australia too :(https://www.abc.net.au/news...
My mom was an ER nurse for decades, and I’m glad she’s been retired for years, both for her physical and mental health. It’s highly unlikely that she would have slapped unvaccinated patients up one side and down the other, but not impossible.
My other two siblings work in healthcare as well. One is an athletic trainer who had to get a total knee replacement at 46 after she raced down a hallway and made a sharp turn into the gym, where a college freshman with a previously undiagnosed heart condition had collapsed during drills. Sister ignored the pain in her torn knee in order to perform CPR, which saved the student’s life.
Other sister is a Physical Therapist at the VA hospital, which operated for months without adequate PPE, meaning she had to reuse masks over and over.
For those healthcare providers in the thick of it - like Mrs. Land Shark - I honestly don’t know how they’ve done it for so long. It’s one thing when vaccines weren’t available. It’s another thing now that we do have vaccines, and the majority of those in hospitals and ICU’s are the ones who refuse to get vaxxed. I can’t imagine how frustrating and exhausting that must be for healthcare workers.
Economic theories don't kill. Implementation by greedy assholes kill. Stop blaming a theory, blame the people. You like to get paid for your work, don't you?
Awesome, I have extended family around Philly and Allentown. Almost everyone is fully vaxxed, but there are a few kids who aren't eligible yet.
A month ago my son was turned away from ER because he wasn't having a heart attack or a stroke and he could breathe.
The fact that he was white, clammy, without energy, vaccinated, and his testicle was dying from lack of blood-- which no one knew because hey, the unvaxxed are so important that there was no room at the inn-- were no tests run until we brought him back a day later, oh well.
He's fine now. We think.
I don't see why unvaxxed Covidiots rank people who are suffering through no fault of their own.