Posts by lonemarlin77

rapidlynx78 said:lonemarlin77, I’m honestly so glad you spoke up because I don't think for one second that nurses are just sitting around doing nothing; if anything, I think it's an incredibly demanding job.😉
I mean, I can only imagine how exhausting it is to walk out in front of a waiting room full of sick, frustrated people just to tell them the doctor didn't show up for his shift again.😠 I truly believe you often end up catching the brunt of everyone's anger—even when you've done nothing wrong—just because of those arrogant, irresponsible types who, unfortunately, hold our lives in their hands.
I actually called the head of the department's secretary to ask how on earth this is allowed to happen, and she just told me they're already aware of the issue but haven't figured out how to fix it yet. Which, honestly, makes it even worse, because then she suggested I call the nurses at the end of the day on Friday just to check if the doctor happened to leave a note saying he won't be there Monday either, as if I shouldn't be making the trip for nothing in the first place.😕
I really don't understand why there isn't a way to actually fire doctors if they skip work for weeks at a time.🤷

Everything you said is spot on.
It is just plain awful when nurses are forced to take on the worst part of the job—
having to break the news to a patient who has shown up five days in a row that the doctor isn't available again.
Then the floodgates open with comments like, "What are we even paying you for?", "You people are useless," or "Absolute crooks,"
and so on.
And then you have doctors sleeping through the night shift, and if a pregnant woman happens to come in
already four or five centimeters dilated, they aren't even supposed to wake him up.🙂
But they'll certainly never face any disciplinary action or lose their jobs.

melloworca6 said:I know exactly how things operate within the healthcare system, since I have a nurse in my family.🙂 And unfortunately, I also know from my own experience while going in for various hospital checkups. There are some truly wonderful people, both nurses and doctors, but of course, there's also some real garbage out there, just like in any other profession.🙂

I agree, there are good doctors and bad ones, just like there are good and bad nurses.
You really can't generalize everyone.

melloworca6 said:You’ve definitely got nurses who aren't quite up to speed, but honestly, their coworkers usually just jump in and pick up the slack, so you don't always notice the gap. 🙂When it comes to doctors, though, there are way fewer of them than nurses, so when one of them drops the ball, it’s impossible to miss.

That is so true. And have you ever really thought about how much work nurses end up doing that should actually be handled by doctors?
Like, imagine you're in the middle of a critical emergency, maybe a patient is miscarrying, and suddenly the doctor's phone rings and he has to step away to take the call, leaving a senior
nurse (not even a supervisor, just an experienced nurse) to just step in and handle everything themselves...
There is so much of that happening, goodness me...
And don't even get me started on the interns; they are basically the unpaid heavy lifters of the entire hospital system.

It’s honestly just exploitation, plain and simple.

rapidlynx78 said:I was just wondering if it’s actually considered normal for a doctor to be totally slacking off instead of actually doing their job at the clinic without facing any consequences, or if there's somewhere I could officially file a complaint, or maybe this is just how the whole healthcare system works in this country now 🤷

It is absolutely normal, unfortunately...
It honestly hurts my feelings a little bit when I mention that I'm a nurse and someone
decides to tell me, oh, you all work for the government—as if we aren't out here working our tails off🤷

In my opinion, this whole trend of people criticizing the medical profession is actually quite
justified, though I really think it applies specifically to the doctors. It feels like they are
the ones who spend most of their shift basically sleeping on the job, or messing around, or just sitting there
drinking coffee and chatting... you know the drill. I've personally seen poor patients who wait days
for an appointment they scheduled, only to find the doctor is unavailable every single day because,
well, you can probably guess—they're just cutting corners. Our healthcare system is truly in a sad state
and, as usual, it's the everyday person who suffers the most, because I've noticed that whenever
some "high society" type walks into my ward, everyone starts scrambling to please them
just because that doctor is going to end up getting some gift bag filled with fancy coffee and sweets later on...
Oh, my poor America...

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Hey there... I honestly can't believe what I'm reading right now because it feels like you're describing my life word for word... After dealing with this constant, recurring dizziness that hits me in cycles every two or three months for thirteen whole years, I was finally diagnosed with CHRONIC VERTIGO... and that was basically it. After all that time, the doctors just told me exactly what I already knew—that my vertigo is chronic.
I've gone through every single test imaginable, truly everything—checked my heart, my thyroid, my neck—everything came back perfectly fine, blood work is great, urine samples are great... everything is absolutely normal. Physically speaking, I’m in peak condition, but I still can't find the actual cause or any kind of cure for this spinning sensation... So, at this point, I've just kind of accepted it and I'm just keeping on pushing forward.