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Healthcare workers are a different breed entirely. They spend years grinding through medical school just to be able to do their job, then turn around and work brutally long hours with the weight of people’s lives on their shoulders. And if that weren’t enough, the things they hear from patients on a daily basis can be equal parts draining and downright insulting. Somebody give these folks a break.
Well, at the very least, give them a few minutes to sit back and scroll through some of the funny posts we’ve collected from the Instagram pages Internal Memecine and Medi Memes. Hopefully they’ll put a smile on a few tired faces out there—because after everything the medical field demands of them, they’ve more than earned it. Find them below.
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Working in healthcare is genuinely one of the hardest jobs out there, and it takes a certain kind of person to do it well. After all, it takes years of studying just to even qualify for the role.
Then you step into an environment where you’re responsible for other people’s health every single day. The hours are long and the pace is relentless, and most days there’s barely a minute to sit down with a coffee. Tiring just thinking about it.
And most of the time, medical professionals are dealing with way more than just tiredness. Burnout is incredibly common across the field.
Research has found burnout rates of over 70% among doctors and nurses, with 56% in dietitians, 43% in emergency staff, and 40% in midwives. That’s a significant portion of the people we rely on to keep us healthy.
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It’s also worth remembering that burnout in healthcare doesn’t only affect the people experiencing it. When the professionals responsible for our health are running on empty, patients can feel that too, and in some cases it can put them at real risk.
A 2025 survey of 1,000 registered nurses in the United States found that nearly three in four felt emotionally drained from work multiple times a week, and almost half worried that their exhaustion might one day lead them to make a medication error.
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That’s all I yam 1 day ago (edited)
Have a BS in Biochem. It was fun to learn. Only worked in labs in college, but it was great general knowledge for later careers.
So why is burnout so common across the medical field? One reason is simply the nature of the job itself.
Healthcare workers are constantly surrounded by illness and suffering. Depending on the field, witnessing people in pain or even passing away can become a regular part of the working day, and that’s not something that’s easy to just shake off.
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Doodles1983 19 hours ago
Lol. I'd tell my dad something, he then **has** to ask his GP. GP says the same, dad asks me, **amazed** how did you know that?
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That’s all I yam 1 day ago
I have no idea why anyone would choose to become a doctor with being on call, lawsuits, constantly making life and d***h decisions hoping you're right, the guilt when you missed something, the sacrified time away from family, the time it takes to decompress - unless you're built to handle all this.
“People in these situations often feel a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness. These are normal reactions, yet attempts to suppress and avoid them only makes things worse,” Petri Aspegren, a lecturer at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences in Finland, told the World Health Organization (WHO).
He believes it’s important that people whose work involves distressing situations are given a safe space to share their experiences and express themselves openly.
Working conditions play a big role too. “It is well known that health workers often have to cope with high workloads, long working hours and a lack of flexibility, all of which impact on their mental and physical health,” Petri added.
Redistributing those workloads and giving healthcare workers a genuine work-life balance with enough time to rest and recover would go a long way.
But tackling the problem fully means looking beyond the workplace too. Sampsa Suomi, a Process and Crisis Intervention Consultant who specializes in improving the wellbeing of healthcare staff, told WHO that personal circumstances matter just as much as professional ones.
“You have to remember that fatigue and mental health problems can happen to anyone at any point in their career and that any challenges we have in our personal lives naturally also spill over into the workplace, and vice versa,” he said. “So, if there is a lot of stress and challenge outside of work, then this could be the last straw if a traumatic work incident occurs.”
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A few memes are obviously not going to fix any of this, but hopefully they at least brought a smile to someone’s face today.
If you work in healthcare, please remember to take care of yourself too. Your patients are lucky to have you, and your own wellbeing matters just as much as theirs.
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I am not you 1 day ago
Well, there are acute and life-threatening dermatological diseases too.Steven Johnson syndrome is one of them.
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Beth Wheeler 19 hours ago
Well somebody definitely took the scrappy handwriting class in med school.
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That’s all I yam 1 day ago
Another reason not to become a doctor. I enjoy learning, but I enjoy my family more.
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That’s all I yam 21 hours ago (edited)
This image makes sense to me. I'm a Type 2 diabetic and trying to control my blood sugar (BS) is much more of an art than a science. I only eat low glycemic index and low glycemic load foods. It's still a daily fight. The main things that affect my BS are: portion size, of course; amount of sleep; stress, both good and bad; time of day, regardless of meal time, and hydration. I wear a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) that measures BS every 5 minutes. The only thing I've found is that drinking 3 cups of water (24oz) usually stops spikes and may or may not bring the BS down. Without this CGM, I'd have no chance of control.
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That’s all I yam 1 day ago
My guess is that the road after becoming a doctor is on the rough side, too. Just a thought - maybe the road to becoming a doctor helps with the hardships after.
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That’s all I yam 1 day ago
Chart comment by a hospital corpsman on patient with severe constipation: Needs a long fingered corpsman.
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That’s all I yam 1 day ago (edited)
Question my doctor asked me after looking at my first EKG: Who's your cardiologist? Me: Huh? True story.
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I am not you 1 day ago
Something is terribly wrong with the knitter's right arm 🤣 Left hand dosen't look very good either. ( Ai I know)
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