• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    I never will understand how somebody gets into any facet of medicine (e.g. nurse, doctor, pharmacist) and find it okay to deny anybody healthcare solely based on how the person lives. Like dude, there are better ways to make money and be a bigot at the same time. Insurance CEO comes to mind. Cannon fodder as well.

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      Because nursing school will shove you through even if you should fail and it’s an affordable 2 year degree that pays. And that’s how I ended up explaining what the P in HIPAA stands for and how to operate a mask. White trash nurses are a meme.

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        My first college was a technical college that also trained nurses. If there’s one thing I learned it’s that nurses have nasty hygiene habits. Hopefully that gets washed out (pun intended) in the field; eventually.

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        I’m in a med lab program and they talk so much shit about nurses in our lectures (no offence). They even hire actors and we do conflict resolution exercises like phoning an exhausted nurse to let her know her third draw just got rejected and they need another sample or order of draw problems ect…

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          In practice you figure out which nurses are what kind of idiot and cling to the ones who are competent. The upside to the dumb ones is they never figure out why the new girl and the woman looking at retirement get more hours and are specifically called so often.

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          Don’t they have a lot of male nurses where you are? Maybe because it’s Seattle and a big town, but my parents in a smallish town had them too.

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            I’m in Toronto and just wrapping up my program so I can’t really comment on that but I personally know a few male and female nurses.

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      Same answer to both; cowardly traditionalist afraid to speak their minds.

      From traditional/conservative families which value the status of being a doctor, not the “helping patients” part. Prejudiced.

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        This.

        There are so, so many doctors who ended up in the profession merely for the prestige.

        Doctors aren’t smarter than everyone else, they just had the resources to be able to study for more years.