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this made me laugh!
i needed to laugh after today's shift, especially because today i had 10 assigned patients... 8 were severely morbidly obese. MORBID. that's a category... the fattestly fat.... it's like beyond obese. it's like beyond that i'm overweight typical american. it's like, crazy, crazy, how does that happen to a person. i had to find special wide wheelchairs that we didn't HAVE. we had to borrow them from a separate CLINIC by calling around asking who had these kinds of wheelchairs because all of our wide ones were in use! one patient we had to find a giant bed for.
and then on like half of thess patients, the MD ordered echocardiograms. Like, seriously?! You think a tiny ultrasound wand with ultrasonic waves will be able to see through all of that tissue?
seriously people. seriously. what is up with that. but according to this report, it's good for the economy, so, i guess i'll just charge their echo bills to their state funded medicaid. state heathcare, it's free, right?!? magic!!
#the empathy is gone when the shift is over
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