From the long running General Hospital, to greys anatomy, house, ER, Scrubs, etc... hollywood has used predictive programming to make us sympathetic towards the medical profession. Until recently, a spotlight has never been shown on the reason why. Big Pharma is just as evil if not worse than the 3 letter agencies. This trickles all the way down to our local communities. These are supposed to be people we can trust with our lives. People who took an oath to help us to the best of their abilities. Now more than ever we hear medical professionals screeching “trust the science” when they damn well know that there are mountains of evidence against that narrative. Yes, there are a handful of good guys out there, but the overwhelming majority are either hell-bent on protecting the narrative or too chickenshit to stand up for what’s right in fear of losing their jobs. I pray that there will be severe consequences that also trickle down to the local level. Personally, I will have a very difficult time trusting any medical professionals into the far and distant future. And there is no excuse for “not knowing better” or “just doing what my superiors told me to” or “I didn’t want to lose my job”. The lives of men, women, and children are already at stake. To the ones strong enough to stand up, God bless you and I thank you with all my heart. To the rest, very simply, FUCK YOU. Each of you deserve what is coming and I pray none of you escape it. There’s a special place in hell for all of you. Nuremberg 2.0 cannot come fast enough.
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Very sorry for your loss Fren. You said a lot👆 and your observations are accurate. Glad that you stood up for yourself. My wife has been a RN for 20+ years (maintains her license currently). Her brief timeline:
🟢 2000- Worked at a smaller hospital as a nurses aid while finishing school. She was looked down upon as a CNA even through she had taken the same classes as the LPN's and RN's her age.
🟢 2001- Finishes school passes the RN boards first try, hospital and drug reps are lurking around the college recruiting nonstop.
🟢 2001 - 2002 - Gets hired at a very large hospital and immediately notices the favoritism towards those that "Go along to get along". Union membership is abused as coworkers get paid leave for sudden "back injuries" but miraculously recover to take cruises and extravagant vacations. Notices that Oxycontin, Percocet, Dilaudid is prescribed for all patients even through they aren't complaining of pain. Even routine minor treatments where morphine was the standard is all overrun with new drugs that are highly addictive and 10+ times as strong.
🟢 2003 - Gets her Bachelors in Nursing and is recruited to the Open Heart ICU because she documents everything VERY well, is attentive towards patients and keeps the doctors well informed.
🟢 2004 - Notices that the same drugs are still prescribed for the people in the ICU. Her job was to help people recover from surgery / anesthesia, but the overpowering drugs knock everybody out. A perpetually sleeping patient is much easier on staff than someone who is alert and ready to head home (less revenue).
🟢 2005 - She starts asking the wrong questions (regarding drug doses) to the nurse manager and doctors. She's skipped over for a promotion, is now assigned all the very difficult high risk (full precautions gowns, mask, PPE) patients.
🟢 2010 - Staff is following her around to make sure she 100% gowns up, sanitizes her hands and properly documents her excessive case load. Any minor detail the she omits is brought before the nurse manager. She often get in trouble for staying late to properly document all her patients.
🟢 2011 - Quits the hospital after she notices other nurses simply cut & paste her notes from earlier shifts while they relax at the nurses station planning their next vacation.
My mother worked at a smaller hospital for 30 years. She would often come home with shoe boxes full of pens, notepads, lanyards, letter openers ALL of which were dropped off by the drug companies that advertised the newest drugs.