This post collected a few of the standouts: https://www.reddit.com/gallery/sxxpo6
edit: I also compiled the bad ones into this three-part, 27k word copypasta for plague rats so you can ask them which one they want to be: https://www.reddit.com/r/FortBadgerton/comments/sy95px/rnursing_what_are_the_worst_covid_patient_last/hxwi4dc/
I legitimately can’t read anymore of these threads. I don’t even feel anything reading them. I don’t know how people live in these careers every day. I can’t even handle second-hand accounts
Emergency/critical care medicine in general breaks you. I'm glad I got out before COVID because there's no way in hell I'd be able to treat an antivaxxer with some idealised idea of a patient. If the working conditions didn't make me quit, already the impetus two years before it, I'd reach whole new levels of compassion fatigue and secondary exposure PTSD.
That being said, I compiled a copypasta of all the worst comments to send as a three-part 27k word reply to plague rats: https://www.reddit.com/r/FortBadgerton/comments/sy95px/rnursing_what_are_the_worst_covid_patient_last/hxwi4dc/
it was making you a sad badger, you could say :thinking-about-it:
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A naval hospital was the only place where I felt structurally protected or valued in a nursing role. Even as a low-ranking enlisted medic, an LPN-equivalent, I had positional authority where anything medical was concerned unless a higher ranking medical person arrived. I literally stopped a ship to pull a drunk off of it, right under the nose of its captain and master chief without them being able to do a thing as I could theoretically call an admiral. If a patient gave me shit, or better yet if they tried to fight me, not only could I shut them down in that moment without fear of being sued but I could go to their command and derail their career. I could yell at patients, always for good reasons, and they legally had to listen.
Going from that to civilian nursing was like putting on clown shoes. Zero protection from management, zero structural protection unless the patient assaulted me, patients who mistake nurses for butlers and hospitals for hotels. I'd still work in something like MSF where the patients understand the value of what they're receiving but if conscripted into an American ICU tomorrow I'd show up eating edibles.