I read “premium premium” which is both spiritually similar and also just fucking hilarious.

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I picked cachy because I was always curious about Arch and I’m LoveHating every second of it.

Or physical therapy. I’ve never seen either of the major clotting labs abbreviated “PT.” You typically say PTT for prothrombin time or INR for the PT-INR.

Easier to write. We spend 5 minutes talking about you at handoff (and I need to write down everything AS the other person is talking) then I have to write a mini essay about each person by morning. Abbreviations are highly specific to specialty (ROM = “range of motion” in most specialties but “rupture of membranes” in obstetrics), but much easier than writing things out. An example from my specialty might be:

SI / attempt r/o. BIBA GSW LA + lig marks neck (suspect DV but pt denies). WC placed, CT (-). Hx DM2 diet managed.

Which is to say

Ruling out a suicide attempt. The ambulance brought them to the ED for a gunshot wound to the left arm and strangulation marks on the neck. We’re pretty sure the spouse did it but the patient is refusing to talk about how it happened. The wound consult is in and they did a CT of their neck already, no severe injury noted. History of diabetes, but it’s type 2 and managed by diet (as opposed to insulin).

…which is like 3 times as long.

I honestly think children should be working as young as 12 even if they’re up to it but it should be like. A couple hours a week maximum with OSHA standing behind their employer with a baseball bat with nails in it. Honestly my trades class in highschool was one of the few good things for me psychologically.

…now guess what it means if a patient is S.O.B.

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Epigenetics does play a role in a way medications are starting to be able to address (basically there’s extra little hormones and stuff your DNA makes when recent generations have been stressed, so if the great depression hit your great grandma particularly hard your genes might still think you need to hang onto some extra fluff just in case). But yeah a lot of it is social stuff that just isn’t going anywhere like McDonald’s being the only place you can get calories at after job #1 and still be on time for job #2.

Jupiter Ascending should have been a trilogy. It’s garbage but in that beautiful way that overdramatic high sci-fi fantasy that thinks it has some deep societal moral to impart is, and I just really loved having just one with a female protagonist and her himbo love interest.

Fedi really highlights the dumbfuckery of this level of argumentative. Bruh has all of fedi to go bother and has their drawers in a twist over one server telling them no.

The fact that you think I clean houses only serves to prove how little you understand what I do.

I mean the other solution is to be next in line. If he’s too disabled to leave he’s definitely too disabled to fight back.

Honestly your gut is more central to your existence than your brain. There’s plenty of organisms out there that are just a tube, and not all of them even have two ends!

Ours just repeatedly tell us not to give patients the TV remote and list off all the incidents that have happened in the past month related to people giving the patients the remote (hiding it in their rooms, watching porn in the dayroom, setting locks on the TV, etc). I never have and never will but at this point I’m kind of surprised we haven’t had to get it back from endoscopy yet.

I’ve been thinking about starting a rumor that we did just for funsies. Just always wearing gloves while touching it. Acting cagey about it with the patients,“sorry I can’t tell you what happened to it” then whispering to my coworkers “well you know where we had to get it back from two weeks ago, right? …oh. Don’t worry about it. Just don’t touch it with your bare hands, OK?” And I’m bluntly honest about stuff no one is like 99.99% of the time so if I start this shit every one will be talking about it within the week.

If AI can even half ass your job you barely had one to begin with. All us healthcare workers and the tradies are still making a half decent wage for real work just like we always have. And the food service and sanitation workers still aren’t doing the absolute best but they’re not hurting for work either. I’m not going to tell you I like the way my work is valued under capitalism but at least I’m tangibly benefitting other humans.

There are so many questions to which there is no right answer, but most of them do have a wrong answer (in this case, neither) and it would significantly increase both-

peoples ability to make a non-wrong decision in time to do any good

-and-

their ability to find peace afterwards

-if assholes would stop acting like anyone is a bad person for not seeing their version of the right answer.

You should be more grateful to the universe for that.

If you’re just trying to get work done and not trying to stick it to the man with the purity test that this thread seems to insist upon

School for my healthcare career had several "virtual clinical experiences that were graded and required windows. They did help us memorize the basics a little before touching a real patient but they were probably also spyware in the grading functionality. In the end though I didn’t have a choice. Some of us just don’t, especially those of us picking careers in public safety. I’m just grateful they provided the iPads for when we used the charting software that required iOS.

I very recently started supporting the dude who does fossify and the dude who does the AI Horde / db0 (the latter of which I made my mental health skills building comm on). I’m trying to support more free stuff these days.