Let’s hear it for the docs and nurses. We owe them a lot.

Posted on March 20, 2015 by KG

doctor_620x310 ‘Heartbreaking photo: Doctor steps outside after losing 19-year-old patient’

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18 Responses to Let’s hear it for the docs and nurses. We owe them a lot.

  1. Wombat says:
    March 20, 2015 at 10:20

    Let’s hear it for our emergency docs and nurses. Sorry, KG, but too many of the others are callous, lazy, moneygrubbing assholes for me to blanket their entire profession with appreciation.

    • KG says:
      March 20, 2015 at 14:02

      I have to say I’ve met very few of those, Wombat.

      • Wombat says:
        March 21, 2015 at 01:47

        They’re thick on the ground over here.

        First world health facilities staffed by third world caliber nurses. Only a handful of all-stars keep the wheels from falling off.

        I could start giving examples but I’m on a laptop and I don’t want to wear the keys out. :evil:

        • Darin says:
          March 21, 2015 at 02:07

          Nursing is one of those jobs where you must have a desire for it.You also must have quality instructors training new blood.
          For example,when my mother and brother were in training they learned to give injections and draw blood by practicing on their own arms,call it the incentive program.As a result they were very good at it.Now they no longer require that at some schools and it shows in the end result.

          • Wombat says:
            March 22, 2015 at 12:55

            Amen to that. We’ve got registered nurses at our country hospital that can’t even draw blood. The response from the manager? “Get someone else to do it”. Consequently the entire roster has to be arranged around pairing competent nurses with incompetent nurses. Best of all, because the competent nurses have to do most of the work, the incompetent ones are given the role of shift supervisor.
            Then, after 5 years or so when a managerial position becomes available there are two candidates, and only one of them can claim they have acted in a supervisory role .

            Guess which one?

            This incompetence is shared roughly equally with new graduates and “veterans” alike. My wife, having graduated within recent memory, has consistently lamented the unwillingness for the schools to fail anyone, no matter how terrible they are.

            • KG says:
              March 22, 2015 at 17:58

              Shit floats on top. :evil:
              I’ve been observing this stuff up close for years.

              • Wombat says:
                March 22, 2015 at 18:38

                Y’know, while we can look at islamic immigration, weaponized socialism, and many other issues, so much of what is driving our national destruction is simply “shit floats on top” management.

                It’s like the salt-damp in the foundations of our society. Not apparent or particularly oppressive, but fundamentally destructive all the same.

              • Oswald Bastable says:
                March 22, 2015 at 19:56

                Yep. In the military, it was ‘promotion by attrition’

          • Cadwallader says:
            March 22, 2015 at 14:06

            In NZ nurse training entails an “appreciation of Maori health needs coupled with a demonstrated understanding of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi!” Now if you can exhibit knowledge of this tripe you pass if you don’t you are failed. The failure is regardless of how well you may have performed in the actual treatment of patients. FFS!

            • Wombat says:
              March 22, 2015 at 18:43

              This is the way. Require a degree for every job imaginable and then treat the universities as gateways for success. Then, in order to pass you must check your integrity at the door and sign on to progressivism.

              The silver lining is that youths are generally rebellious, and while conservatism may have once been the foundation against which they rebelled progressivism is now the status quo, and more and more youths are now asking why they should hobble themselves for life on behalf of a bunch of drunks and welfare addicts who hate them no matter how low they bow and scrape.

  2. mawm says:
    March 20, 2015 at 11:28

    Fortunately unexpected losses are rare.

  3. Ronbo says:
    March 20, 2015 at 11:35

    The doctor shouldn’t feel bad if he’s done his best to save a patient – When the Big Guy Above says your number is up – goodbye Planet Earth :!: :sad:

  4. Darin says:
    March 20, 2015 at 12:57

    My Mother completed Nursing school in the late 50’s at what was then the original Charity Hospital in NOLA.She worked as an ER nurse until a couple months before I was born.She tried to return to work several months after I came along,but she was on duty one night when the child of a good friend of the family came in the ER after a severe head injury(brain matter visible),he lived for a short while on a ventilator,but died the following morning.That was enough for her and she never went back.

    When I was little I once asked my father who was tougher,him or mother,he said she was much tougher than him.I thought he was being funny at the time,but once I was a little older I realised what he meant.I overheard her relating the story of that little boy to a friend of hers who was also a Nurse.All those years later her voice still broke up and a tear dropped down her face,the memory was still fresh like it had just happened.

    My middle brother followed in her footsteps and has been an ER nurse for the past 25 years and a shift supervisor for the last 15.He puts his everything into his job and handles everything that comes his way,but then he has always been tougher than me.

  5. MacDoctor says:
    March 20, 2015 at 13:05

    As an ex-emergency doctor, I can say “been there, felt that”. In fact, any doctor worth his/her salt would have felt the same. Even the old ones hit you, but you cope.

    The worst are the kids. Telling a mum that her two-year-old is dead, rates as the crappiest experience of my life.

  6. mistress mara says:
    March 20, 2015 at 16:49

    MacD, I agree. A cop, door knocking parents in the middle of the night, would say the same.

  7. k2 says:
    March 20, 2015 at 19:48

    Doctors have the highest suicide rate of any professional group. Which is why it annoys me, for a number of reasons, when government power grabs end up reducing their compensation to that of a high school principle.

  8. Darin says:
    March 22, 2015 at 19:24

    “Shit floats on top. :evil:
    I’ve been observing this stuff up close for years.”

    Yup,and similarly in politics assholes rise to the top,hence we have Obama who despite whatever else he is,first and foremost he is a USDA certified asshole. :evil: