Posts by William Sanchez80

You’ve got it all wrong. Life isn't some linear assembly line where you check off boxes one by one—daycare, school, college, marriage, kids... that's not how it works. Most people are out here running multiple tracks at once. They're grinding through a degree while working, or raising a family while hunting for a career. Honestly? I think that's the smarter way to play it. All those people who insist on doing everything "sequentially"—and then they finally land the house and the white picket fence—usually end up totally broke, or they're too old, or they can't even have kids anymore because they waited too damn long.

At first glance, you sound like someone who just feels powerless against the world, and frankly, that's a bad look. You're just sitting there waiting for things to "just happen." Look, man, nothing is just going to fall into your lap. In this life, you and everyone else have to grab the reins and actually drive. It’s called taking RESPONSIBILITY for your own existence. As long as you're busy pointing fingers at someone else—your mom, your dad, your college professor—nothing is ever going to get better. Get out there and grab life by the throat! I’m telling you this with the best intentions, based on my own hard lessons...

Look, there’s a massive difference between working a retail counter and actually dealing with sick people—that's step one. And like swiftcanyon64 said, we’re the ones footing the bill here, which gives us every right to demand better! Remember how those professors absolutely lost their minds when they had to go through re-evaluations and actually prove their published research? Well, people finally realized those "untouchable" days are over. It’s the same deal for you guys... it's just a matter of time. Thank God for that :-)

And just to be clear—I never said every single nurse should be fired, so go back and read my posts. The two specific examples I brought up? They definitely deserve to be canned. But hey, I'm just venting on a forum, right? All the polling shows what Americans think about healthcare workers, and thanks for asking—people form those opinions based on what they actually experience. Personally, I’d be mortified to work in this field if that's how people viewed my profession. The fact that everyone here is just spitting venom and playing the victim instead of offering something constructive... well, that says everything about you.

One more thing—if these exact same situations happened in, say, investment banking or some other corporate setting, both of those women would have been fired on the spot. No question. I don't get why you all think you deserve special treatment or that you shouldn't have to ANSWER for your actions, even if it means facing a Court. Everyone has to answer for what they do. EVERYONE.

By the way, I actually know of a case where a patient was killed due to medical malpractice and the family won in Court. Believe it or not. Right here in the States. It was an uphill battle involving international experts, a mountain of cash, and heavy-hitting lawyers... but they won.

Look, Doc, you’re clearly running out of actual arguments—and honestly, regarding that title of yours, those credentials get audited every three years based on performance reviews anyway, so I seriously doubt you’d even keep the MD for long. Given the way you’re talking, I highly doubt you actually finished med school because you wanted to help people or because you give a damn about the Hippocratic Oath you took... if you even know what you recited back then. Did your dad just buy you the degree or something? Just asking... ;-)
Since hospital administrators can be from all sorts of different backgrounds these days, I could pretty much become your boss in no time—and if that happens, you better watch your step before I decide whether or not you're keeping your job 😁😁😁 And considering how you act on this forum, I'm betting you'll be the first one on my list 😁😁😁😁

@sunčice, unfortunately, there aren't any polls or grades for this stuff. Professors have to be re-evaluated, and plenty of other professions do too, at least from what I know. So, she missed a vein? Fine, whatever, maybe the woman was having an off day. It happens. But the fact that she REFUSED TO FIX THE MISTAKE, and instead went out of her way to harass the nurse—who we eventually had to talk into fixing it ourselves—well, I think that says everything you need to know.

It’s honestly pathetic how they protect each other; they're so insulated it's disgusting. You don't have to smile at me, but you DO have to do your job. Maybe not go above and beyond, but at least pull your weight. It's a miracle if someone stays brave and level-headed, but who actually is when they're sick? They are literally ruthless and show nothing but their worst sides. Sometimes I wonder if they even still give psychological exams during admissions at that medical school? They used to, but I'm not sure if they still do...

This whole thread really got me thinking—just rewinding the tape in my head. Honestly, over the last five years, I’ve dealt with a bunch of different hospitals here in Chicago, both personally and helping others out. And look, I can say there have been some good moments, but let’s be real: every single positive experience I had was solely because of the doctors. Not the staff. Not anyone else. I’ve seen some of those physicians working themselves to the bone just to keep up. Meanwhile, you’ve got the ER docs trying to run outpatient clinics at the same time, sprinting up and down stairs like absolute idiots... and don't even get me started on the sheer volume of patients and procedures they're forced to handle. At least some of them aren't treating people like garbage or acting like they don't matter. But the kicker? For the pay they pull—which honestly isn't much better than what some mid-level bank manager makes—they aren't exactly getting rewarded for it either. It's ridiculous considering how much more blood, sweat, and tears they poured into their education compared to everyone else.

I know this woman who was dead set on becoming a nurse since before she even hit legal age. It’s honestly pathetic when someone calls themselves a nurse and then turns around on a forum to whine about how hard it is to deal with everyone's annoying aunts and uncles. Like, seriously... if you hate people that much, why even go into nursing? Why not just grab a job at Chase or something? At least there, you couldn't just brush off customers without getting fired immediately. But in a hospital? You can just act like you don't care...

Honestly, I’m with Sunčica on this one—there’s zero reason to feel sorry for them. You should be filing formal lawsuits against every single person capable of taking action.

Someone just messaged me saying this was about some intern/trainee hooking up at a hospital in a place like Cleveland or something... Look, the fact that she could even pull that crap while on the clock drags every single one of her colleagues through the mud. They basically enabled her, and nobody bothered to ask what she was actually doing instead of filming herself with two idiots...

Thirdly, you NEVER get fired for making mistakes—you only get canned because of administrative quotas or someone else's pure stupidity.
You all need to be held accountable for even the smallest slip-up, because you aren't working behind a retail counter; you’re dealing with sick people.

And seriously, looking up meds from a list isn't rocket science. Plus, you didn't exactly kill yourselves studying—if you had, you’d probably be doctors instead of nurses. And if you’re gonna comment on nursing, you might as well mention that one nurse who missed a vein and then refused to fix it when called out. Is THAT a nurse? She should have been fired on the spot, because she sat there watching an IV go into a patient's tissue instead of the vein AND REFUSED TO FIX IT, whether asked nicely or not. Immediate termination. No discussion. Isn't it part of the oath to actually help a patient asking for aid?

Anyway, I could bring up a good example here, but it wouldn't be about nurses—it would be about the doctors in a certain GI department and the ER. I remember them saving this alcoholic patient, pumping his stomach and pulling him back from a coma, and the guy was literally beating them up and being a total jerk... I honestly felt like telling them, "Whatever, let him die." Seriously, they put in so much work. But overall, it was a young, incredibly talented team of doctors—not nurses—who are known for being professional and tight-knit. So, there are good examples out there too. My only gripe is that the doctors on that team were constantly bickering like old men in a tavern. It’s just how they are, I guess, but it’s obnoxious to listen to...

I've spent enough time in hospitals myself to know the score—the ratio of good nurses to bad ones is basically 40:60. And honestly? That 40% of decent people gets totally overshadowed by the other 60%. Look, it's true they’re underpaid, overworked, and stressed out of their minds, but let's be real—there are just a ton of incompetent, clueless people in the mix who can't even hit a vein or start an IV properly. I actually saw this happen once where some useless nurse missed a vein so badly the IV fluid was just leaking under the skin, creating this huge lump... and when we called her out on it, she had the nerve to claim the patient just sprained her wrist or something and basically told us to get lost. Since we weren't having any of it, we called over another nurse, who—of course—fixed the mess immediately and hit the vein perfectly. The kicker? That incompetent nurse actually got pissed at the competent one for "touching" her patients. Thank God the second nurse had the guts to step in and say, "Fine, I'll fix it," even though she knew she'd deal with the drama afterward. And man, did she...

And don't even get me started on that young nurse who was caught on video hooking up with two techs right in the middle of her shift while patients actually needed help. That footage ended up on porn sites and made headlines in The New York Times. I'm betting she didn't even get fired—everything was probably swept under the rug. If I were the Secretary of Health back then, I would've hunted her down myself. Every hospital director in the country would have been summoned to my office, and nobody would have had a moment of peace until they dragged her to the Department of Health just so I could look her in the eye and hand her a termination notice personally... just thinking about how many incompetent, godforsaken people are in that profession... it makes me BLOOD BOILING

It's a tough job and yeah, they're slammed, but the reality is they're protected like cornered bears. They can be ignorant and screw up constantly, but they'll NEVER lose their jobs unless they do something absolutely insane! If you actually have proof that medical staff messed up, you have to go after them—hit up the directors, the ethics boards, the legal system, and patient advocacy groups... you probably won't achieve much, but maybe things will change eventually. At the end of the day, if there's a constant stream of complaints against the same person, someone is finally going to get fired, and maybe they'll be at the top of that list... hopefully?