“Like Something In A Movie”: 36 Hospital Workers Share Their Wildest Stories

We are so much more humane to our animals than out humans. The mother was so selfish.

This is why abortion should always be available. There is zero qualify of life from birth, only pain and suffering because of the Mother's emotions.

My friend’s mother is 98 and has been bedridden for a decade. She has Alzheimer’s and hasn’t spoken or recognized anyone for almost as long. But every time she is sick, my friend insists everything be done for her including antibiotics and surgery. The doctors keep suggesting that they make her comfortable and let her go but my friend won’t hear if it. I feel so sorry for both of them.

I once saw a rather bizarre student film (animation) about (the biblical) god breathing the “breath of life” into Adam. The setting was an ethereal place where all these breaths waited to find their bodies, where once joined they become a soul. Again, as per the Christian bible. The breaths would communicate & chat with each other both in the heavenly place & newly formed bodies. Some of these breaths would return to otherworldly plane having had a false start, symbolizing miscarriage or abortion. Other would have a rocky start giving it a try at joining breath-body & ultimately failing to return to the holding place. This, symbolizing SIDS & other infant mortality or broken bodies that couldn’t contain the soul or maintain life. It was rather an odd piece of work for a secular, state university, but it wax so profound I remember better than my own film projects from 30 years ago & it’s the closest I’ve come to participating in Christianity. A nest take on life/death & coping.

I'm a firm believer that just because we CAN do something doesn't mean we SHOULD do something. I know it's a huge grey area though.

It's frustrating to me because I had a bona fide allergic reaction to the covid vaccine. Even the manufacturer warns that I will possibly go into anaphalactic shock if I get a booster. And I have long Covid because I caught it the first time 3 weeks before vaccines became available. Yet there are so many people who say it isn't real, or it's just a cold and nobody ever really died of Covid. I can't get the vaccine again so I have to rely on others to vaccinate. Not working out too well!

And they think covid was only a forerunner to a worse virus...God help us. .so many deniars still sprouting their nonsense

Here in NZ we didn’t go through that because our Labour led government kept us safe. Unfortunately the nutbars out there that whinge and moan about the restrictions we had (that saved our freaking lives!!!!) will ensure that the next pandemic doesn’t go so well. Especially if it’s under a National led government. It’ll basically be everyone for themselves. 😞

I am disabled and need Carers. Well one of the Carers I used to have, would tell me that the death rates for COVID were extremely over excerated. That people were dying from things like broken necks, heart attacks, falls, flu, things like that. That there was nowhere near the amount of deaths from COVID that the Doctors were saying,they just put COVID on the death certificate because they didn't want to do a autopsy. She said a lot of things that you had taken with a pinch of salt

The death rate in the UK never changed.

I would love to say it's different in the UK but, having recently spent two months in hospital, it isn't: several times there was one nurse and one healthcare assistant covering two ward bays and five isolation rooms - 15 people in total, many of whom needed assistance to do everything from toileting to moving around to feeding themselves. If nothing else, I left hospital with the greatest respect for everyone who works in hospitals: thank you all!

Luigi cared! /s

It's similar here in Sweden too, even though we don't run everything through insurance companies (yet). Our right-wing government is trying to turn us into Little USA, adopting some of the things that are wrong with your system. They intend to increase the prices on prescription medication next year, so that elderly people will have to choose between food or medication. The education to Registered Nurse or MD are long, and even though the education is mostly free, people still have to take out loans to be able to pay rent and food. The wages for nurses aren't high enough to make the effort worth-while, so we have a glaring labor shortage. People won't work themselves to death for low pay in Sweden, so they go to Norway instead, where they pay more (i.e. the taxpayers in Sweden are stuck with the bill for the education, but we don’t reap the benefit of their work in our healthcare). I don’t blame the nurses, I blame the ones setting the wages for nurses.

Oh boy, I can relate this !!

Except for Luigi.

OP said the hospital decided to stop telling her. Too traumatizing for everyone involved to be repeated hourly.

Horrendous. Given the choices, I would lie to her.

Why would the leech leave a food source?

And the leech had what to do with the rest of the story?

Than you lie that he wil come. She will forget that too, but it won't hurt.

Don't nurses call motorcycle riders "organ donors"?

Having nothing in the head can be good.

Both my grandmothers died in hospice and they were well cared for. But we live in Canada.

been to a few hospices (I am an in-home care worker) and they have always been well-staffed by lovely people. But I am not in America.

Those last 6 months are vital

I remember when my husband was on suicide watch years ago; there was someone in the room with him at all times. However, what surprised me was that he was given a full set of metal utensils to eat with -- including a knife (which was why he was on suicide watch, he'd slashed his neck and wrists. Luckily, he is doing tons better now

A mental patient was bought to the ER? Why?

What a tragedy.

Damn

My hair and nails grow back. The last time I checked I wasn’t a starfish, gecko or lobster, my leg won’t grow back. There’s the logic, that’s the logic you use.

Bet that hurt.

Unlike hair and nails, legs don't grow back, pal.

The difference is your hair and nails will grow back out.

I blame d***s

In India, they usually cost between about $25 and $60 USD. It's cheaper to fly to India, get a CT scan, have a little vacation, and fly home than to do it in the US. And no waiting. Medical tourism has become really popular for a reason.

In Alberta, we can have an ungodly wait time to get one through doctor referral at no cost. But if you want one done quicker, you can book one for “only” about $800.00. US is wild with their health care.

The prices in the US are ridiculous. I used to be a medical assistant in Portugal. We did X-rays, ultrasounds, mammograms, CT scans and MRIs. MRIs cost a small fraction in Portugal of what you pay in the US. The price varies but it's about 500eur.even in the UK, where it's more expensive, the most expensive MRI is £999, still a fraction of what they cost in the US!