just wait till you hear what goes down in the true north strong and free (CW: disturbing)
Seriously, I told this story on Reddit a couple of days ago but I broke my femur in a car accident and was given only Tylenol 3s the whole time at a Texas hospital. Meanwhile I ripped my ACL in a surfing accident and was given morphine like the instant I was in the ER. That was not a way to find out that I wasn’t the only one. I should mention that I’m a dark skinned Latino man.
Henry Ford was a fucking Nazi and should have been executed for his role in providing resources to Germany during the war.
Entirely anecdotal but yeah. I'm Midwest usa. All the rich country horse girls from HS, they're nurses. All the most racist and intense sorority girls, also all nurses. Regularly see nurses with blue lives matter pins when I go into the doc. Docs themselves are also often reactionaries.
Boomer docs: almost always reactionary. But a cool hopeful trend now is a lot of my younger doc coworkers are socialists or on a path to radicalization. I think it’s a combo of younger ones insane debt, not being as homogenous, more first gen doctors etc. nurses on the other hand...hate to generalize but so many are white, don’t live in the hospitals community and have disdain for the people they treat (also a problem with a lot of docs)
I know a few millennial docs who are either hyper libs or bitch about "loonie leftists" to their patients
I've met a shitload of racist/chud medical workers. I feel like it's at the same average you'd find from any random sampling, but that's still a huge problem.
I think a big reason for this is the high barrier of entry to the medical field. The admissions process for medical school alone can easily cost upwards of $1500. So it ends up being a mix of people from privileged backgrounds, and people who made it in thinking "fuck you I got mine".
If you ever want a pit of despair, /r/medicine is where it's at, although I hear /r/residency is a awful as well (and never forget whatever the med student equivalent is).
I know a nurse and she's not racist, but it seems like everyone she works with is. She got a shock when Covid happened and a lot of them don't/won't wear their PPE correctly. Like they'd take it off and crowd together at the nurse station, and not wear masks outside of work to the store.
I know a bunch of nurses who work in nursing homes, rehab places for elderly who not once throughout the whole pandemic stopped going to bars
Last time I was in the hospital most of the nurses I was were Latin American women. I developed a minor crush on one woman from Guatemala but didn’t say shit cuz I didn’t want to be a creep. That was until one day I was really doped up and slurred out “god your beautiful” to her and she just laughed at me. I was horribly embarrassed for the rest of my stay.
That's actually really sweet, I hope she took the compliment to heart.
Last time I was in the hospital most of the nurses I was were Latin American women. I developed a minor crush on one woman from Guatemala but didn’t say shit cuz I didn’t want to be a creep. That was until one day I was really doped up and slurred out “god your beautiful” to her and she just laughed at me. I was horribly embarrassed for the rest of my stay.
Most of the actually helpful staff at the hospital are not nurses but CNAs. Hospitals love using them because they're paid less, work longer hours, and fulfill duties that registered nurses consider to be beneath them.
Same thing with trade unions and emt/firefighters. People give them WAY too much credit for doing a public service. The percentage of filth in these jobs are too damn high.
Laughing my ass off at this, super racist dude I knew in HS was going to be an EMT and switched into nursing. Wonder what he's up to now?
The amount of rightoid EMS and fire is off the charts. I worked in very close proximity with those people for years.
I am a nurse and I am pretty sure the worst racist I've ever met in my life was another nurse. Coincidentally he was a middle aged Italian man. Double dip.
you'd think with how serious so many Italians/Italians Americans take anti-Italian racism they wouldn't be like this but alas
This guy would call Obama the gamer word like a machine gun in private.
It seems the lesson they have taken away from being treated like black people isn't that it wasn't fair to treat anyone like that, just that it's unfair to treat them like that because they aren't black.
If you ever look into the differences in care and mortality for white americans and black americans (especially women) it's incredibly obvious this is a rampant issue all across the country. Just things like who gets perscribed what for pain has a huge discrepancy. It's really sad
