I love genuine questions and people putting in the effort to love and understand each other better. If you come at me just wanting to argue I’m going to troll you back. FAFO.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The app connects you to the human translator by video call and automatically connects the service to the patient’s medical record so the patient can be correctly identified. It creates a note on the patient’s chart that records me as having requested the consult, the time of the call, the amount of time spent on the call, the language used, and the translator’s ID#, for both legal and billing purposes. Me and the bean counters aren’t the best of friends, but from a legal perspective I like that it provides supporting evidence that I at least tried to talk / problem solve a safe resolution with the person before having to resort to restrictive / invasive interventions (and hey, that day it did work!)




  • That level of conviction that you’re right about something can be pretty destructive regardless of specific belief system. Theory of evolution was a great step forward but also somehow resulted in phrenology and branches of capitalism that liken it to “survival of the fittest” so. People like to concentrate power amongst themselves and people like them then justify it as them being smarter and more right about some kind of fundamental truth about the universe. Assholes gonna asshole regardless.



  • We went to move a patient to another room the other day because they were confused and trying to do unsafe things so we wanted to move them somewhere closer to the nurses station so we could keep a better eye on them. This conversation was also being had by way of a translator on video call on a work phone so we start guiding them down the hall while they’re confusedly babbling and I’m trying to keep the translator close in case real words happen to fall out that I need to understand.

    Then the translator hollers out “please don’t give me a shot” and I was fumbling trying to get the phone close enough for the patient to hear me be like “NONONO we’re just moving you to a different room!” That translator earned her money that day. She was just about crying on the call by the end. There was other stuff about the overall situation that was also depressing but that moment in particular was very NO NO NO NO that is not what’s happening honey! Like I will if I have to but there’s about 20 more things I’m gonna try first!

    Honestly this is just another example of why I had the translator app installed on all the work phones instead of just the iPad on the stand. So many people give up too quickly when the patient is confused and the translator can’t make sense of it and they don’t like pulling up the iPad on the stand because they don’t want to trip on it while running away or get hit with it but like. I’m a ten year veteran of talking people out of dumb decisions and the talking is actually pretty key, even and ESPECIALLY when the dumb decisions are actively happening.



  • If you want something specific, simple, and believe it or not evidence based to do:

    Do a simple, repetitive task that uses both your eyes and hands

    • crocheting / knitting
    • coloring
    • simple arcade / phone style games such as Tetris, candy crush, or snake

    …while listening to instrumental music. Jazz, classical, lofi, or EDM are all great options, but you might also consider a video game soundtrack

    This will gently stimulate your subconscious to get some processing done kind of in the way walking / water aerobics is good for physical rehab.