r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • 14h ago

Wait a damn minute! Bad time for a how-to YouTube video.

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u/liftingshitposts 14h ago

Got damn she looks like a nightmare patient.

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u/UnableToParallelPark 14h ago edited 1h ago

She probably knows more than the nurses and doctors too. Questions everything etc.

Edit: I'm not agreeing with the person, more pointing out how patients think they know more than medical professionals.

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u/pakapab 13h ago

The only thing more powerful than a medical degree from The University of Google is one from Google Law School.

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u/Shenstygian 13h ago

I highly doubt that.

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u/Thumbuisket 10h ago

Every patient who thinks that is more than welcome to leave against medical advice whenever they’d like . 

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u/UnableToParallelPark 1h ago

It would make healthcare providers lives much easier. People are the same with pre-hospital care too. There are very pew patients who actually are aware of their conditions.

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u/Warm_Swan_793 11h ago

I mean, it’s not bad to question things you don’t understand.

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u/UnableToParallelPark 2h ago

You're missing the point.

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u/Motor_Valuable_9628 14h ago

She’s in the hospital. One of the most informative things I learned in EMT school was that you are meeting these people for the first time on possibly the worst day of their life.

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u/gods_Lazy_Eye 14h ago

Context is everything. You know why dentists are one of the most miserable professions? People hate to see them. It matters.

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u/Dr__Snow 10h ago

And yet she still has the energy to be filming someone without their consent to try to embarrass and hurt them… someone who just doing their extremely stressful job and is trying to do the best job they can to help her.

On the worst day of your life you can still be a decent person. Or you can decide to be an absolute c word. Says something about a person, I think.

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u/Motor_Valuable_9628 10h ago

She’s not hurting anyone, it’s a video of two people wearing facemasks.

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u/josh5049 2h ago

No shes posting a video to social media in order to cast the worker in a poor light, this is digital harassment

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u/reggae_muffin 9h ago

I know her entire list of diagnoses without even examining her, and under that hospital sheet she’s 100% wearing fuzzy Cookie Monster pants.

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u/ezalbrozar 13h ago

Definitely tempted to close a hole they weren't supposed to.

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u/Abject_Advance_6638 13h ago

I've been hospitalized enough times to know: most medical specialist really don't know shit and question everything they do. You have to be an advocate for yourself and most of these fucks, though well intentioned, aren't all that much more intelligent than the average joe. They just had much more schooling.

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u/Helpful_Avocado6900 13h ago

hard disagree. many are based on experience. can the average joe deal with sepsis? most average people think fever is okay. what do you do if the person can't breath? what do you do if the person is having a chest pain. shit like that requires experience and exposure.

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u/Abject_Advance_6638 13h ago

Maybe a slight exaggeration on my part but that doesn't take away from the incompetence I've experienced at every turn:

I had open heart surgery, they didn't want to give me pain killers, sternum was literally cut with a saw. They also knicked my heart during the surgery and now I have a pacemaker for the rest of my life. This occurred at one of the top trauma hospitals in Chicago.

Had to get my colon resectioned, while on blood thinners. The cardiologist and general hospitalist didn't communicate and they almost gave me a blood transfusion, which almost guaranteeed a stroke. Oh, they also didn't want to give me pain killers for that either, after cutting into my stomach open and cutting out a portion of my intestines.

Had an MRI because I thought I was having a stroke, nothing was found but they told me I should stay and get a CT scan, knowing full well one couldn't be done because the specialist needed wasn't there; essentially they kept me 2 nights to bill my insurance.

My cousin was in labor and they fucked up her epidural and instead gave her ketamine. She was tripping balls, but could feel every incision being made.

This is all anecdotal and you'll probably think I'm making this shit up but I have all the scars to prove it. The point I'm making is there are plenty of incompetent doctors our there, and if you don't question them, fucked shit is going to happen to you.

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u/Thrbt52017 11h ago

You don’t need a specialist to run a CT machine. We have CT techs in hospital at all times. Your last one seems like perhaps you assumed some stuff there. I started my career on a Neuro ICU unit.

Epidural itself is not a medication, ketamine is not unheard of in L&D though usually give PIV. Never heard it given through the epidural line.

As for the pain killers, I am not going to lie that one I think maybe you weren’t getting the ones you want and were not being properly educated; but I have never seen a patient post surgery that didn’t have every pain medication we could give on their MAR. There are parameters, so if your vitals or labs or off, or if you are severely constipated there are meds we won’t be able to give you. In that instance I wish someone would have educated you but I tell my patients consistently, “I like you a lot but I don’t like anyone enough to risk my license over it.”

I don’t think you’re making it up. I think you’re indicative of an issue I think both hospitals and patients need to be better on. You do not know what you do not know. All the studies and googling in the world will never be equivalent to medical school//nursing school and the MCAT/NCLEX. There are so many pieces and moving parts and diseases that have similar symptoms you just don’t understand the pieces of a puzzle you aren’t even aware exists.

Hospitals need to do a better job actually educating our patients and our patients need to step back and remember that you can’t google your way to a medical or nursing degree (trust me I watched classmates try and fail) and years of experience in the field.

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u/Abject_Advance_6638 11h ago

You need someone from the company the makes the pacemaker to put it in a special mode/setting to do a CT.

Idk how the ketamine was administered bit the was what my aunt told and she's been aa nurse 40+ years.

The painkiller issue was them being stingy. When i entered the ER i was given IV fentanyl. They woke me up straight after surgery and gave me a button to press every 15min for morphine. You can't keep get track of time straight out of anesthesia, so i was pressing the button like i was buzzing in on jeopardy. So once I had a breakdown in tears due to the pain and begged a nurse for a bolus(not sure if spelled it right), they went to the doctor and got morphine bolus ever 4hrs approved. Nothing was wrong with my vitals. Explain how I went from IV fent to the jeopardy buzzer after surgery? Also, I hadn't eaten in a week so constipation was not an issue.

I have plenty more horror stories, like getting a pic line straight to my heart, nurses not understanding how to properly change the dressing, and potentially exposing a direct line to my heart to bacteria. I had to yell at the nurse and she was written up by her charge nurse.

There's a ton of incompetence and if you, as a patient, aren't aware of it, bad shit will and does happen.

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u/Thrbt52017 7h ago

Again, you can’t even begin to understand pieces to a puzzle that you don’t realize exists. Are you aware that certain medication per policy can’t be given on certain units? Are you aware not every medication is flushed out of your system within 24 hours, they can build up and shut down your kidneys or liver. Are you aware a pain pump is behind lock and key and there needs to be clear signs it isn’t working (outside of you yelling that it isn’t working). Every time you press that button it’s docked in the system. If you weren’t pressing that button every 5-15 minutes that doctor has no legitimate reason to give you a bolus or up your dose. Are you aware that a PICC is meant to be placed right by your heart and that you’re not the only person who had their heart tickled by a PICC. Look sweetheart, humans make mistakes, your healthcare workers are human. If you come in with the attitude you are exuding here it’s not surprise you feel like you always run into incompetent healthcare workers. You’ll never be satisfied, you’ll take normal complications and call it “incompetent” and honestly you probably come in immediately demanding the pain pills you want without consideration that there are legal standards we are required to follow.

Of course you aren’t you aren’t really aware of any of those things but you are a chronic patient so you assume you have to know more than the average Joe about the inner workings of a hospital and I promise you that you absolutely do not.

If we are so incompetent why don’t you stay home and treat yourself and not waste the time of these folks doing their best only to have you run around and claim they are incompetent? Considering you’re still here and able to talk shit I’m going to guess those healthcare workers did a fine job.

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u/Thumbuisket 11h ago

For all your myriad of health issues, you should maybe be grateful and realize all those “incompetent” medical professionals did their job in the end and kept you alive despite your body fighting them on every front. You wouldn’t be whining here without them. 

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u/Abject_Advance_6638 10h ago

Well, I probably would've been dead if I didn't catch some of their fuck ups too. So we'll call it 50/50.

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u/Thumbuisket 10h ago

Uh huh, I’m sure you know best, honestly you probably could have preformed your own open heart surgery too. 

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u/Thrbt52017 7h ago

One more thing. You called it incompetence that they wanted you to stay for a CT because of a possible stroke, you mention you’re increased risk of strokes, but your MDs are incompetent for having you stay until the rep could get there? That doesn’t sound like incompetence to me. That sounds like an MD doing the right thing and keeping you, had he sent you home to do their CT outpatient and you actually had a stroke and got worse at home you’d be calling that incompetence as well (and that I would agree with).

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