“Hospital staff are overworked” they say

We are told that hospitals are overwhelmed with the pandemic by the media. Yet when you scroll through social media, I see so many of these TikTok videos of medical staff doing dance routines and skits while AT WORK

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Many of us have had our lives turned upside down by this global problem, and by the policies that have followed. Some are stuck in our homes, others lost our jobs and our businesses. The lesser fortunate have been suffering and even dying from this illness. So you’d think that when the world is under a crisis, that medical workers would be working to ensure confidence in the hospital industry by taking their jobs seriously.

This shows us that despite the pandemic, hospital staff have enough time on their hands to choreograph and practice a dance routines, all to satisfy their addictions for likes and retweets on social media. And have time re-shoot the video all over again if a mistake is made.

If there’s one important profession that people should take seriously, it is healthcare work. But these TikToks give me the disturbing reminder that half the population has below-average IQ; by the law of averages, most statistics fall below the average line. At most half of you reading this have below average IQ. And the people making these videos who are screwing around at work during a global crisis have below average IQ as well.

These TikToks tell me one of two things:

1. The media is lying to us about the virus. There are not people dying in the ER, hospitals are not in turmoil, and the staff have enough time to organize, rehearse, and discuss a dance routine

2. There is a killer virus on the loose and lots of people really are dying, and hospitals are very busy. But these psychopaths in healthcare think getting social media attention is more important than saving lives.

If there is any healthcare worker reading this. This is a plea to you: if you are considering making a tiktok video on the job site, I can guarantee you can look around the hospital and find something more productive you can be doing than goofing off for social media attention. Please be an adult and knock this shit off!

 

Where are you getting your news from? I haven't heard of ERs being overwhelmed anywhere outside of NYC. In fact, national news is praising my city for the fact that aggressive quarantine measures has resulted in empty emergency rooms

 

The ones who did such dance routines in my country were working intensive shifts with lots of deaths actually. It was a way to keep moral up and having something completely diff to put your mind to in your off time. You might be jumping to conclusions about those in your country.

 

Isn't that kinda his thing tho?

 

Don't all of his threads start this way?

 

He should just consider himself bloody lucky, that so far he hasn't had to see the Doctors and nurses practicing their skills on him.

 

Are you suggesting he would be offput if they were twerking on him?

 

It seems clear to me that the 6-eyed shaman may not be aware of what goes on in Hospitals - the Blood, the Gore, the Grief, the terminal cases of heartache the Losses, the Death
It is a way of emotional release, - the reality is too tragic to just accept as normality

 

figured yinz would except this raunchy behavior.
dealing with grief. Go home and cry!

 

So you've been a prat all your life !!!

 

Takes one to know one. Oh well, the rest here can take comfort in knowing that you and I got that below line mentioned in the OP covered.

 

You know that doctors and nurses are allowed to take breaks, right?

 

Here in the UK, due to social distancing, hospitals are not overwhelmed and people are not dying as a result of lack of professional care. 'Turmoil', is not the word that I would use, but logistical problems are causing some stress. Staff are working 12 hour shifts, many of them 4 a week. It addition both retired and student nurses and doctors are working in critical care, but the teams are organized and no patients are at risk. Early relaxation of the lock-down could change that overnight, resulting in unnecessary deaths the moment that the last bed was filled.

After 48 hours work, are staff not supposed to have time to relax and enjoy themselves, or should they keep working until they fall asleep and their patient dies.?

Hospitals do have canteens and recreation areas for staff to relax. In 45 years, I have never seen a single nurse or doctor dancing around in operating theaters or critical care wards.

Is it not slightly hypocritical of you to ask these staff to goof around posting on HF

Needless to say, my experience is limited to the UK

 

That is probably the reason that I gave up my medical studies and went into design engineering 50 years ago.
Cardio thoracic surgery made sense, but a young motorcyclist lying dead with shattered bones sticking out through his clothing was too much for me. For months, the very sight of a joint of meat in the kitchen made me vomit.

 

Larking about is a coping mechanism!

when I’m under it at work....I have a mad half hour.

it stops me going mental. It’s good for morale.
Even the directors get my attitude towards life at work, but I’m a certain kind of silly!

For certain, I would like something to take my mind off of my surroundings if I was in a position such as “some” hospital workers.

10 minutes respite in 10-12 hours of death, sadness, pain and suffering......

Fuck that I wouldn’t last a day, it takes a special kind of person to do this stuff.
I am not one. But I wouldn’t walk past your suffering.

 

Whilst it's sad to hear that you had to give up something that you felt drawn to, only those who have been and seen the aftermath of events/incidents and the horror that is etched on the memory can appreciate

 

In my case it was only part of the reason, the senseless loss of life and the huge number of self inflicted injuries along with deaths through alcohol and drug abuse really depressed me.
My design work in the film industry suffered during 3 recessions, so I returned to cardiology as a researcher at the start of TAVI, along with driving a London ambulance for a few years.
Our daughter suffered similar trauma following the discovery of a decomposed body in a house and 6 months at Grenfel tower following that terrible fire.
Few people realize the stress and trauma experienced by the emergency services.

 

Not just the emergency services - find a Railway employee who has been on the job for about five years. Tell him he's wanted for a 'sack' job and watch his reaction. I would guarantee that the blood would drain from his face, he may go green and vomit, but most assuredly he would turn 180 degrees and run as far and as fast he can, since a 'sack' job is literally that - shovelling 'bits' of a human inside a sack. After someone has been hit by a train travelling at speed, there's usually not an awful lot left intact.

 

These days it is not like that. All the train driver has to do is fill in a ream of paperwork. After the traction current is shut off, paramedics confirm that the person is dead and if so, they are not allowed to move anything. It is then handed over to the police to investigate and decide whether it is a crime, suicide or accident. Along with the paramedics the remains are removed and if necessary the fire brigade are called in to hose the area down. In many cases the line shut down for several hours.

Wimbledon station has always been a suicide hot spot, due to trains passing through at high speed. They now use separate platforms that are completely railed off and only opened when a train is scheduled to stop.
I was based at Wimbledon ambulance station for a year and most paramedics had a story to tell. Fortunately I was never involved in an incident.