I don't know if you've spent a lot of time in a trauma center, but after a shit ton of death, everyone starts to look like meat. The human mind has its limits, and you gotta roll out onto some other duty. The problem with covid is, there is no other duty.
I'm a combat medic veteran and medical professional. I've worked with doctors without borders before. I still would but I can't right now. That's why I have a gym in my house. I just got through beating a punching bag senseless after a long day. I can't punch patients. I won't drink myself to death either to deal with the frustration and death either. Idiots who refuse to take it seriously are exactly like drunks who drive or junkies who only thinks of the world revolving around them. They do not give a rat's ass about anyone except themselves. They do not care about the wake of devastation they are leaving behind.
Some people can take it. Most people can't. It is what it is, heh. I've got a bunch of staff that are on a pretty high dose of SSRI's or Benzos and they are still about to break.
Yup. I know. I've busted more than one doctor and nurse who turned into a drunk or junkie. I've known fellow medical professionals who turn their exhaustion on patients. Nurses who kill patients. Intentionally. Doctors who are code junkies. We are human beings. I have family too. Just like cops who see people at their most vulnerable and worst, then have to go home and forget it.
We've got a pretty good protocol for rolling people off services that we know are pretty emotionally damaging to mitigate this. The problem is that we can't really roll people off dealing with covid patients during these surges. It's all hands on deck.
We pretty much know the junkies in town, and most of them show up an LBJ or Ben Taub. They are contained and thus, not really that big of a deal for the med center's 21 hospitals.
Oh, we have tons of repeaters. We're also seeing idiots smoking blunts soaked in formaldehyde and ant killer. Idiots snorting home made methamphetamine with battery acids and who knows what cut.
People like dr swango. He got his jollies from making people's heart stop. They do it for a variety of reasons. They are the center of attention. They are looked at as heroes. They have a God complex and they relish the power of life and death over people. Dr's like Shipman killed patients for money. Nurses can be code junkies too.
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u/TurboGranny Texas 17d ago
I don't know if you've spent a lot of time in a trauma center, but after a shit ton of death, everyone starts to look like meat. The human mind has its limits, and you gotta roll out onto some other duty. The problem with covid is, there is no other duty.