“In the ICU, we spend a lot of time keeping corpses alive until their family comes around or their body gives out. ’Oh, Jesus ain’t ready for her yet!’ Yes, Jesus is ready for her; we’re just actively delaying it.”

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"The hospital I work at has these big square covers. When I first started, I would see transport staff pushing these things around the halls. I thought they were food trays or large hospital equipment boxes. Turns out, it's a structured bed cover, so when they are transporting a deceased patient to the morgue, it doesn't look like a person under a sheet."

"I ordered them anyway and laughed when the director called me on it. Don’t even get me started on the bare minimum treatment my husband has gotten through the VA."

"At the end of the day, we are there to make sure our products are used safely and effectively. We are paid really well, especially if you sell and support important equipment in difficult procedures, but it's a high-stress job that doesn't get much recognition. The money helps. Last thing, women device reps are constantly getting hit on by doctors and are forced to accept it or risk losing the business."

"There are also many families who keep older members in unsafe living conditions so they can continue to take their Social Security checks for personal use."

"So, he just moved on to the next unsuspecting facility and opportunities to violate patient privacy in the worst possible way."

"Also, if you have a CRNA do your anesthesia, you are billed TWICE! The CRNA bill and one for the anesthesiologist who witnesses your induction."

"For example, I never before had to wait months to get a replacement RN approved for a CORE position — one that covers the basic required staffing of a unit — with approval needed from administrators in another state over the local hospital CEO and CNO. Exhausted and demoralized staff cannot provide quality care that is rewarding to patients or to themselves."

"Where I work, the morgue, pharmacy, patient cafeteria, and employee cafeteria are contiguous."

"Patients liked me because they could feel that I cared, appreciated my candor, and trusted me as an ally. Gaslighting psychiatric patients in the worst moments of their lives will not improve outcomes."

"At the end, instead of writing a prescription, they GAVE the patient a pill, by taking it out of a bottle, putting it in the patient's mouth, and giving them water. This pill was a placebo with no healing effects. In 95% of comparisons, among patients given a prescription for REAL medication to be filled at another location and taken at home, those given the placebo by the curandero reported feeling better within 24 hours. The patients, using a pharmacy, took several days to report any relief from symptoms."

"Yes, this. I was shook the first time I had a patient die, and within the hour after we did post-mortem care and took the patient away, they had a new patient for us in that same bed."

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