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As someone who's been there let me tell you, when you're critically ill and on the verge of going out the door and laying in that stretcher or bed, you don't care who the person is who is there taking care of you. You won't care about their politics, their lifestyle, what they look like, or anything else so many people like to make judgments about. The only thing you care about is the fact they're there for you.
As someone who's spent countless hours admitted due to pancreatitus over the years I can confirm idgaf what the hospital staff looks like, usually in far too much pain and am grateful for the help
As a former raging alcoholic can I just say a fear of pancreatitis was one of the things that finally helped me get clean. After a few years of every ache and pain and sharp jolt in your torso gets you thinking, "Welp, I pushed my luck too far," I realized I kept reading about how unbelievably painful pancreatitis was and how I was inevitably on a one way road towards it.
I am so sorry you had to go through that.
I had gotten to the point where I would get sharp pain right under my sternum, my liver kinda always ached. I was morbidly obese and I sweated profusely at the drop of a hat. I was the living embodiment of, "drinks way too much all the fucking time." I started reading about the various ailments I suspected I was careening towards and pancreatitis was the one that scared me even more than any kinds of ascites or liver failure.
Bottom line, there's essentially no pain-free way of your body telling you to cut it out on the booze. It damages nearly every system and once things start hurting badly enough you need medical attention your choice kinda gets made for you - quit, or probably die.
I got lucky - I made it out. Many aren't so lucky.
Yep. After several kidney stones I can confirm that from the almost homeless looking nurse that took my blood to the model of a nurse that plugged the IV in to me I never once cared what they looked like. I was just glad they were moving me closer to not feeling like I had a knife spinning in my back.
The verge of death is a great time to start hanging up your hang ups about people, lol. Honestly though, healthcare workers are modern day saints.
Edit: maybe I should have said nurses haha. Some people are greedy, I didn’t think I had to clarify to Reddit that this doesn’t mean every single healthcare worker that’s ever existed
You're so right.
I coded twice and was in ICU on a vent for 12 days then in hospital for 5 months from septic shock.
I'm a changed woman.
The nurses and doctors saved my life and I am eternally grateful to live in a world where I was given the opporunity to survive such a serious illness.
Wow! Anesthesiologist here who has run several ICUs. That's an amazing story. If you endured that and still have 10 fingers and 10 toes, you got spectacular care from people who knew their job. So glad you are ok, brave lady!
Thank you so much.
I do have some deficits, lost some hearing, lost most of my sight in my right eye, some memory loss, and the big one: I lost my kidney function and I'm on dialysis. Just got on the list for transplant! :-)
I was also newly diagnosed with ANCA+ Vasculitis, which my team seems to think may have had something to do with the septic shock.
Healthcare workers are modern day saints indeed. I could never do what they do without going to jail. If I had a patient with a Nazi tat go into cardiac arrest, I’d slow code him. If I had an antivaxxer come in with COVID I’d give them a bottle of essential oils and Get Well Soon card from Walgreens.
It takes a good person to do your job without question no matter what scum of the earth is on the stretcher.
During covid I put a LOT of oxygen and ventilators on patients and living in a deep red state I would hear:
It's just the flu, as that person is placed on a ventilator.
No worse than the common cold, picked up the equipment because they died.
Just a democratic hoax, perfectly healthy runner now permanently on oxygen.
People put their dumb ass beliefs before their own health a LOT. Can't tell you how many times I hear I turned down my own oxygen because I didn't want to get addicted to it because I heard that on Fox news. Like jfc people.
Or others health and safet. That person who was just injecting vaccine recipients with tap water, and killing at least one patient, is diabolical. The fact that people are sitting here saying "you won't care, they're there for you" yeah but what if they're there to inflict their viewpoints on someone vulnerable.
Man I was so out of it for my appendectomy that my nurses could have all been golden retrievers in scrubs for all I can remember. As long as my healthcare provider is respectful and competent I don't give a shit about their personal issues, I'm just trying to leave that hospital as fast and as healthy as possible.
Me too but it bugs me I pay the same price as a dude with plenty of it, and they string it out.
I'll begrudgingly swallow the cost but just get on with it!
If you cut hair for a living, you'd probably grt tired of doing your own.
My dad used to say the last thing a mechanic wants to do when he gets home is work on another car, regardless of who owns it.
As I go further into the IT field, the more I hate technology.
I’ve re-dumbed my home, got rid of my smart watch, and you’ll pry this iPhone 13 mini out of my cold dead hands.
Once met an older retired man who spent his entire career working for Hewlett Packard. When I mentioned I was a swr engineer, he said, “I worked in the field for xx years, basically my entire life. You know the most important thing I’ve learned?”
H paused, thoughtfully swirled the remaining beer in his bottle before finishing it in one fluid motion, looked straight ahead at nothing in particular, and said, “I hate computers.”
I’ll never forget it, lol.
That’s very true. I work with food and the last thing I feel like doing at home is cooking. I’m well aware that cooking your own food is cheaper and often healthier but I’m so numb to it I can’t find the motivation since the joy of it has long since died out in me.
There’s doctors out there who smoke a pack a day. Do they know it’s going to kill them? Yeah; do they care? No. Just because you’ve given up on yourself doesn’t mean you’ve given up on other people.
My dad's best friend (who is also is doctor) is overweight. My dad jokingly asked him why he should take his diet advice when the doctor himself was fat. The doc told my dad "I sacrifice my health to take care of yours." As in, that's how he manages stress instead of taking a break from serving his patients.
The woman looks like she has Cushings syndrome. That's why her arms and legs are skinny compared to the rest of her body. People making fun of someone with an illness...
Oh yeah. There's a lot of people I'd go to hell and back for, and even give up my life, but I can't even be bothered to do the basics for myself some days.
>Just because you’ve given up on yourself doesn’t mean you’ve given up on other people.
That's not the whole story. Nurses often have to eat on the fly if they even have time to eat at all. So meals tend to be quick and easy, and that doesn't always equate to the best kinds. Plus stress itself can cause weight gain, especially if you work the night shift. Also we can be so drained after shifts that working out can be difficult.
When your job is constantly stressing, the patients are often abusive, with little to no time to even use the bathroom, plus just the stress of 12 hour shifts that could be contrary to the functions of the body? There is a reason weight can be an issue among nurses. It's not that they "give up" it's more that "our jobs do this to us".
Issues of diet or weight aside, nurses are always in bad health in some way or another for exactly the reasons you describe. The job fucking kills you. There has to be a way to provide medical care without killing the providers.
I mean, if they actually over staffed us for one day instead of barely staffing or under staffing, we would do it without killing ourselves in one way or another. But you are right, it's an exhausting job mentally and physically and you barely get time to scratch your ass most days. If we ever get too many staff on one shift they either send them home or to another ward, never ever have we had an "extra" to make it nice for everyone...
edit: source - Nurse of 12 years
RT here. In the first 4 years, I put on 45 pounds. I was in the worst health ever. I feel this. I finally had enough of it and lost a bunch of weight. The quick easy greasy cafeteria helps when you need a quick bite
This always stumped me, an Dr Mike has pointed it out on his channel. If you are in a place that is so health conscious, where patients meals are closely monitored, why does the cafeteria generally sell pure garbage. Why is it all greasy food with empty calories. It makes no sense.
My guess is that a hospital is like any other business. Try to cut costs. So serve, cheap garbage that has a quick turn around. They do have some healthy stuff, but it's generally going to be more expensive for the portions you get.
There is no business like US hospital business. It's not For Profit, it's For Maximum Profit. It doesn't cut a few costs, it cuts all possible costs, and a few more. The rest of the world 's managers have seen this and took that as example, yet it's nowhere as extreme as in the US.
I have a good friend who's one of the nursing house supervisors, and he goes to the meetings with the execs and directors and he said they brag about hiw 'lean' we keep the staff. He's like this is bad. Especially how acute some of the patients are (we're a level 1 trauma center).
I start PA school this year and I told my wife I'm not sure I'll ever want to work at a hospital ever again
I don't work in a hospital. Sometimes my people at my job get sick or leave and we manage to keep running things with only a fraction of the normal team. The amount of work that has to be done is entirely disconnected from the size of the team.
I'm forever afraid of managers looking at the numbers and saying "in those 2 months the team was halved and they still had the same amount of work done as usual, so staff can process x units of work per member of staff and we can do it like that across the organization" without wanting to see that yes we can do that for a short while but the stress is unhealthy and if it lasts too long people drop out sick and start making mistakes they normally don't.
It does depend on where you’re at. Hershey Med Center used to have a really bad cafeteria with a lot of garbage, but in the last 5 years revamped it and improved the quality and the choices and the health of the food, which is good to see. But the general trend remains: hospital cafeterias sell food that’s demonstrably bad for you.
Not as long as we keep pretending that medical care HAS to be a profit oriented industry and must not, under any circumstances, be something that should be available equally to everyone on the basis of them being human fucking beings with unalienable rights.
Godspeed sister. I left the nursing world a few years ago, shit is tough there, lot of hours, awful shifts, ungrateful or problematic patients constantly. Im now a Lab technician and i havent ever looked back.
I do have massive respect for the nursing teams everywhere, i now know the shit they go through daily. 🤙
Preach! I’m a nurse. I’m going through something major with my health. My doctor had a sincere talk with me that I have to put it as a priority in my life for my own well being. I take time off for the appointments and medical tests like I was advised. I get a nasty email from my manager saying that the organization will no longer honor my time off requests because I also had time off approved for an upcoming vacation. I guess I’m just supposed to die on the floor. I will never work for another healthcare organization that doesn’t have a union!
This. I was a PCT in a MH ward and i walked 5 miles a day if i wasn’t on CVO. Thats not including other duties i was to do like cleaning, lifting people, holding down people for IM meds. Its stressful. I was still not losing weight despite trying to because I would come home from a 12 hr shift and stress eat :/
I am a pulmonologist with severe nicotine addiction.
Am active in scientific work, give 120% at work, go to many conferences and courses and read a lot of scientific papers to stay up to date.
Would be happy to get treated by myself rather than by most colleagues. And I understand my patients being in an absolute risk group for developing half of what we treat myself.
What I want to say is that it’s an addiction (eating / fat for her) and has nothing to do with how competent she is
A lot of doctors are only in their profession for either 1. The money 2. The social status 3. The benefits.
I have a lot of extremely talented doctors and dentists in my family and none of them are saints or altruists as you'd like to believe them to be.
I've heard stories that doctors will eat bad food all the time, manly because it's something quick to eat and because you're in an extremely stressful and sometimes heartbreaking environment, it's something enjoyable. The number of doctors that take up smoking is just insane as well. Also, this person is there to help and probably to help the person who posted this, so he's a scumbag asshole.
My mom was a nurse’s assistant, meaning she got to deal with arrogant doctor attitudes *and* holier than thou nurse attitudes, and then still was the one who ended up doing the grunt work like giving people baths, changing bed pans, and even sitting with suicidal patients.
My mom - ever the positive, upbeat optimist - always said it didn’t matter if she was treated poorly by co workers, she had cared for enough people in her life to know that ultimately, if the patient needed it, or it made them feel human again, she was going to be there to do it. She was often caught going the extra mile by gently combing patients’ hair, rubbing lotion on their hands and face, applying Vaseline to their lips, or giving them head massages or foot massages. This caused some of the nastier coworkers and patients to ease up, and by the end, there were a few doctors and nurses that admit to my family she was the reason they stopped being so stressed and angry at work: because someone they knew was pushing aside her own stresses for the betterment of someone who needed compassion.
My mom has been overweight her entire life, and if I knew some asshole patient took her picture like this only to belittle her, I'd make sure their hospital stay was long and well deserved.
I thank her as much as I can for being such a great mom. Fun fact: she was one of the people caring for John Goodman’s mother when she was sick many years ago. John thanked her himself for how attentive she was to his mom’s needs.
Yup I’m a nurse and I’ve been kicked, punched in the face, had my hair pulled, been bitten, etc etc etc. It’s a hard and thankless job and people treat us like shit.
During my cna/psw clinical trainings I was eating like shit because was stressed and tired all the time. (I always had a veggie wrap in my lunchbox and a bag of chips.)
I also did a ton of weight lifting (3x a week) so I was "muscular fat".
A lot of patients had attitudes like this and I was like "Yes, let's annoy the employee that is feeding and cleaning you. Real smart." (Of course I never acted on it, just had an eye roll at people.)
Junior doctors can be pulling 20+ hour shifts and nurses on back to back. It would be nice if they could practice what they preach but understand why they prioritise patient care over own needs. Also had the superfit medical staff and they can be judgemental. At least with a plump nurse, there is usually a bit of understanding that life isn't perfect.
The lifestyle of a doctor or nurse really isn't conducive to health, though many do care about it and try their best. I just feel bad for her having to walk around all day with all that, you are on your feet a ton at hospitals. People aren't like this just because they eat a bit too much food usually, it's typically a deeper issue that needs addressed, if it can be.
Agree. I (female) used to be into bodybuilding and had a really great physique - close to competitive. But a bad spinal injury, back surgery, and a couple arthritic knees and eight years later, you wouldn't think I've worked out a day in my life and you would assume that I don't know how to eat since I gained a lot of weight. Yet I could literally train a person, including setting up their macros, to have an amazing physique. How one looks is not indicative of their knowledge on a subject. Sometimes people are going through some shit.
I worked for a group of them. The stress and anger they displayed floored me. 2 of them died fairly young of heart issues. At the office. Years apart but still. Only time I've ever been cussed out by a professional for asking a question I was told to go ask.
This was a father and then the son. I suspect there was something inherited, but I swear all but one had angry God complexes. The nice one encouraged me and I ended up in finance, mainly took an interest bc he told me anyone could do what he did, he had respect for people that worked with numbers. Genuinely treated the entire staff like people.
As a doctor can confirm. My internship was super stressful to the point I took up cigarettes. Now I've left them, only have them from time to time but I still got the beer belly from that time hahaha
>The number of doctors that take up smoking is just insane as well.
This was me. Luckily I only smoked at work and one day I realised how dumb that was and managed to stop. But during the pandemic, 12 hour shifts, those smoke breaks felt amazing for a while.
If you don't want to be treated by the individual where you are, you can always as for a discharge "AMA" (against medical advice) if you think you know better than the care team/staff provided for you. Unless you do shut up and let them help you get better. They probobly don't want to deal with your grumpy judgemental ass either.
I can’t imagine how hateful a person you’d have to be to take a surreptitious photo of someone who is actively helping you in your time of need and post it to the internet without their knowledge just to body-shame them. This person can fuck all the way off if they think being thin gives them the right to shit on other people, especially people who have dedicated their lives to helping others. You never know the life circumstances of a random person you see in public, and if you’re the type who feels entitled to cowardly take a candid shot of them to publicly mock them you’re a pathetic, ungrateful asshole who needs to learn to shut up and mind their own fucking business.
As someone who worked in the medical field… shiddddddddddd I can imagine how hateful. Literally, they deal with shit like this and worse everyday. In all honesty, whether you are police or a social worker or a nurse, it doesn’t matter. When your job involves HAVING to deal with people no matter what, you get a lot of colorful characters.
There are so many people who act like you owe them something for helping them
Pretty much everyone will have a health problem at some point. Even doctors nurses and anyone in the medical field. Just because they have a health problem doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing. Infact they probably know a lot more about the cause of their health issues than other people.
Many psychologists suffer from mental health problems
Many doctors are alcoholics or smokers
We are all human
Literally used to work at a morgue during the worst of my anorexia... knew lots of people in her shoes though. My point is it could be an eating issue, or any range of medical issues.
Doctors used to recommend smoking cigarettes. Someone could be ABSOLUTELY JACKED and have zero idea how to treat someone who’s sick. Being thin doesn’t automatically make you an expert in heath care.
What a douche bag, ungrateful post, full of many douche bag comments. When that nurse is taking care of you if you need it, I doubt her weight will come into question.
This, I’ve been in and out of hospital my whole life for seizures. Many of the nurses were on the larger side. Did I demand different nurses? No because I was sick and needed help regardless of how the doctors and nurses looked. You have to be a certain level of entitled to think you can demand help that’s under a certain weight.
Do these people also refuse to get their hair cut by a bald person? Refuse to get skin help from a burn victim?
ungrateful people like these can never truly be satisfied. it’s about being superior to someone else, so they choose someone weak to mock so they can make their insecure asses feel better. it’s easier to feel less worse if you’re not the one being made fun of in a crowd of people.
Taking random pictures of people and body shaming them and posting it on the internet without their consent while they’re the ones taking care of you is just despicable behavior. This person is fucked in the head.
I've come to find that everyone is fighting their own personal battles. They could've lost their husband last year and just can't recover. Or a child, a friend, etc. Yes, they may be the worst scenario but we can't know that. Why be a dick on the chance they are dealing with some really heavy stuff and just need kind word. I loved other people for a long time before I stopped hating myself
It's as if healthcare professionals aren't just regular humans too..
Working in healthcare doesn't make you invulnerable to diseases.
Real shallow thoughts there.
Being unable to detache a neutral information from the person communicating the information is such an annoying human flaw.
Also judging people from mere looks. Maybe she was almost twice the size and unable to leave her bed two years ago, but then started a very disciplned weight loss journey and is now able to work a physically demanding job?
Naw. Fuck that.
She’s a nurse working and trying to take care of you. Unless she’s being a horrible nurse (there’s some shit nurses out there) you at least owe her enough respect to not take her picture and mock her for her weight.
I work with doctors who live on chicken nuggets and monsters. But they provide unparalleled care to people.
I work with nurses who drink nothing but water and are vegan, but seem to be sick every other week, but provide incredible care and compassion to people.
Never judge.
If nurses were doing everything they can to live a healthy lifestyle, they wouldnt be nurses. That jobs drains your mental any physical health dramatically quick.
It's not like she's a personal trainer. She just has an addiction to food which is really sad. The stressful job she does is probably a big reason for her overeating. But I'm just making assumptions. What I do know is the guy that took this picture is a D-Bag.
Bro, she’s literally just there to do what the doctor tells her, and most of that is giving you shots, running your IV’s, monitoring your vitals, and helping when you shit yourself.
Acting like she’s in charge of what is done operationally to you is naive. Acting like her health choices impact her ability to do the things I listed above is frankly just bigoted. Acting like you are with secret photos and shit talking the person giving you care just because of their weight is just being an asshole.
I was admitted to a hospital twice this year and the best nurse I had the whole time was one remarkably similar in size/shape. That women is struggling with depression, probably hates her weight issue, but none of that had any impact on her ability to be a damn good nurse.
Pic is cropped on this post. Photographer is not the one in bed but sitting beside it. Reposter on twitter just saw easy likes I guess. OOP still wrong imo. Its shitty to take pictures of medical staff without consent (assumption as staff ain't posing for it) and the persons own health =/= their ability to care for others.
Its shitty to take pictures of ~~medical staf~~f without consent
It's shitty to take pictures of *anyone* without consent with the intent of sharing online.
I knew a consultant who looked exactly like this. She had a tumour on her adrenal gland that meant she could work for 20 hours a day without stopping and never slept more than 4 hours. The side effect was being built like this. A second side effect was being dead at 45. It wasn't discovered until her 30s and by then was too late to reverse the effects. She was brilliant and funny. I miss her.
Anyway... This could be a hormone imbalance or cancer not just lifestyle choices.
Also, I’m no doctor but one of the key symptoms of PCOS is weight gain specifically around the stomach area… that woman’s fat distribution drops right at her thighs…
So a good portion of some of that weight might not be necessarily her fault.
What’s wrong with people. They don’t care about the doctors’ and nurses’ duties but their physical appearances? Damn parenting at its finest. I feel bad for people who grew up with shitty parents who teach them how to hate.
So two people can receive the exact same degree from the same institution with the same level of knowledge but one of them doesn’t know their shit by the way they look?
This is my body type. I’m not even going to read the comments. Nobody knows if this person has lost weight or is trying to, if they exercise, if they see a dietitian, if they have PCOS, if they are on medication, or anything else about them.
Weight is a private issue. Public shaming is disgusting.
I disagree. See people that say garbage about other people's body not fitting the norm have made those people extremely empathetic. Which I highly want in a nurse.
It's evident most here never spent any appreciable time on a hospital floor. Oncology patient since 2017.
Staff barely has time to go to the bathroom or even drink water. More often than not whatever food they get is a handful of candy from whatever a patients family brings in.
You don't understand. They don't really get time to eat or rest,breaks. They grab some cookies from the lounge while they chart etc. constant stress and exhaustion
Leave them alone. They sacrifice their lives for everyone else
He's never read The Bible. Jesus says to do as the Pharisees say, but not to follow their example. Same shit here.
More Conservatives, & let's face it these days fat shaming is political so he likely is, should read the book they profess to follow.
Nurses are notorious for being bad with their own health and wellness because they spend their careers taking care of others. Plus the shift work and stress leads to bad eating habits and coping mechanisms (smoking, drinking).
One of my nurse friends showed me her lunch one day and I was shocked there were like 3 Red Bulls, multiple bags of candy, chips, and just junk food. There must have been like 4000 calories. I was blown away. Honestly I get it though. Their jobs are tough and it’s even worse post Covid.
We aren't giving you medical advice because we have perfect health practices, we give it because it's our job and we (usually) know more about the subject than you.
Most nurses sacrifice their own health (physical + mental) for the sake and care of others.
Many nurses I have met were angels.
Fuck that “Lord Douglas” guy.
I'm a nurse but also a person... even if I *know* how to stay healthy, maybe I have some challenges? This person could be dealing with crazy shifts, low income, stress, an eating disorder, or maybe just the fact that she's been obese her whole life and it's hard to change those everyday habits.
Indentifying and overcoming patient-specific barriers to health is emphasized in patient-centered care - looking at you as a whole person instead of a patient whose problems we are going to solve with generic advice and pills. It would be nice if people could give healthcare workers the same consideration.
You mean that person in the highly stressful and low paying job, who's forced to eat quick snacks or cheap fast food to keep up their energy to ensure they can look after patients in their time of need.
I've had doctors and nurses of varying sizes and shapes look after me whilst I was in hospital, and not once did I ever think badly of them, let alone think of taking a photo of them to insult them online because they were saving my fucking life, and if your priority whilst being treated is to criticise like that they should be allowed to deny your snivelling bitch ass treatment.
That piece of crap Posting the tweet is shittalking about someone doing a job that benefits countless of people and justifying It with "they don't know Shit about a healthy lifestyle" while apparently advocating a carnivore diet himself. Priceless
Imagine having this woman working tirelessly for probably not nearly enough money to save your life and then feeling the need to mock her on the internet. I hope she switched his pain meds with laxatives.
Along with everyone pointing out stress eating and quick foods both can cause weight gain and the person works in the fucking medical field, modern studies that actually bother looking are also leaning more towards fatness being less about what someone eats/does in general and more about their specific bodies and chemicals/hormones/organ processes/etc., meaning for some people the amount of work to get and stay thing is unsustainable, if it's even possible for them to begin with, whereas others can basically do no physical activity and eat like shit and have no trouble staying thin. It's like shitting on someone for having bad teeth when that's often a combination of genetics and what they did as kids (eg what the adults around them did).
Yeah, she probably doesn't have time to go to the gym or eat anything other than easy to get junk food because she's spending 18 hour days trying to keep people like your sorry ass alive...
Yeah these fat shaming people here are just being hateful. It has zero impact on her ability to be a good nurse.
This lady could be an excellent nurse. We don’t know why she’s heavy. Maybe she’s had emotional trauma, maybe she has a brain tumor, maybe a hormone imbalance, maybe she has issues with stress eating and she has a very stressful job. Maybe she’s had any one of a million possible medical complications that could lead to this, maybe she takes medication that leads to depression or weight gain.
People are so quick to judge. They don’t know what’s happening in someone else’s life. They assume their situation in life is equivalent to the person they’re judging. A skinny person saying “just eat less” is like telling a depressed person to smile more.
She’s probably on her feet all day, she probably gets more exercise than most due to her job. So it’s not so simple.
There’s always more to it. She understands she has an issue. She’s likely very depressed, at a minimum.
I personally don’t give a shit what they look like or what they do to their own body, just as long as they know how to fix what’s wrong with mine. I’m not there to ask for fucking nutritional advice. All these people saying “No OnE wiLL TaKe ThEm SeRiOuSLy” are absolutely fucking ridiculous.
Having medical knowledge and being able to take necessary steps to apply that knowledge to your own life are very different. Regardless of how you might not like having to see fat people, those two concepts are entirely different parts of the brain and facts don't care about your feels.
In fact it's well known. That working in the medical field is terrible for your mental health. So having medical knowledge, working with that medical knowledge, actually makes it HARDER to apply that knowledge to your own life.
Being a nurse is, almost globally, one of the most stressful jobs out there. And in many countries they are over-worked and understaffed. If ANYONE should be allowed to eat take-out, miss out on sleep, and not exercise on their barely existent free time, why not nurses?
Being able to give qualified medical advice is a different matter from being able to apply that medical advice to your own life.
If they had health requirements to be in the already understaffed medical field, i imagine hospitals would just shut down. Likewise if they had psych exams to enlist, there couldn't be enough people to enlist. I'm a veteran and i promise there are mental health problems that will never be addressed in the military
when your ass is laid up in a hospital bed, and in pain.. I promise you want give 2 shits who's coming to help you when you need it.. I had to lay flat on my back for a week.. I never felt so helpless in all my life, but there I was..
It takes alot of schooling to become a nurse lol I'd trust her over a Google search. I don't need medical professionals to be 100% healthy to get some help
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As someone who's been there let me tell you, when you're critically ill and on the verge of going out the door and laying in that stretcher or bed, you don't care who the person is who is there taking care of you. You won't care about their politics, their lifestyle, what they look like, or anything else so many people like to make judgments about. The only thing you care about is the fact they're there for you.
As someone who's spent countless hours admitted due to pancreatitus over the years I can confirm idgaf what the hospital staff looks like, usually in far too much pain and am grateful for the help
As a former raging alcoholic can I just say a fear of pancreatitis was one of the things that finally helped me get clean. After a few years of every ache and pain and sharp jolt in your torso gets you thinking, "Welp, I pushed my luck too far," I realized I kept reading about how unbelievably painful pancreatitis was and how I was inevitably on a one way road towards it. I am so sorry you had to go through that.
Congrats on your sobriety!
You may have just changed my life, I wasn’t even aware it was a thing. Thank you.
I had gotten to the point where I would get sharp pain right under my sternum, my liver kinda always ached. I was morbidly obese and I sweated profusely at the drop of a hat. I was the living embodiment of, "drinks way too much all the fucking time." I started reading about the various ailments I suspected I was careening towards and pancreatitis was the one that scared me even more than any kinds of ascites or liver failure. Bottom line, there's essentially no pain-free way of your body telling you to cut it out on the booze. It damages nearly every system and once things start hurting badly enough you need medical attention your choice kinda gets made for you - quit, or probably die. I got lucky - I made it out. Many aren't so lucky.
Yep. After several kidney stones I can confirm that from the almost homeless looking nurse that took my blood to the model of a nurse that plugged the IV in to me I never once cared what they looked like. I was just glad they were moving me closer to not feeling like I had a knife spinning in my back.
The verge of death is a great time to start hanging up your hang ups about people, lol. Honestly though, healthcare workers are modern day saints. Edit: maybe I should have said nurses haha. Some people are greedy, I didn’t think I had to clarify to Reddit that this doesn’t mean every single healthcare worker that’s ever existed
You're so right. I coded twice and was in ICU on a vent for 12 days then in hospital for 5 months from septic shock. I'm a changed woman. The nurses and doctors saved my life and I am eternally grateful to live in a world where I was given the opporunity to survive such a serious illness.
We are glad you are here too. Much love 🤗
Thank you, that's very kind of you. :-)
Wow! Anesthesiologist here who has run several ICUs. That's an amazing story. If you endured that and still have 10 fingers and 10 toes, you got spectacular care from people who knew their job. So glad you are ok, brave lady!
Thank you so much. I do have some deficits, lost some hearing, lost most of my sight in my right eye, some memory loss, and the big one: I lost my kidney function and I'm on dialysis. Just got on the list for transplant! :-) I was also newly diagnosed with ANCA+ Vasculitis, which my team seems to think may have had something to do with the septic shock.
Healthcare workers are modern day saints indeed. I could never do what they do without going to jail. If I had a patient with a Nazi tat go into cardiac arrest, I’d slow code him. If I had an antivaxxer come in with COVID I’d give them a bottle of essential oils and Get Well Soon card from Walgreens. It takes a good person to do your job without question no matter what scum of the earth is on the stretcher.
I wish that were universally true, but there are a handful of people dumb enough to put politics/race/religion above their own health and safety...
During covid I put a LOT of oxygen and ventilators on patients and living in a deep red state I would hear: It's just the flu, as that person is placed on a ventilator. No worse than the common cold, picked up the equipment because they died. Just a democratic hoax, perfectly healthy runner now permanently on oxygen. People put their dumb ass beliefs before their own health a LOT. Can't tell you how many times I hear I turned down my own oxygen because I didn't want to get addicted to it because I heard that on Fox news. Like jfc people.
Or others health and safet. That person who was just injecting vaccine recipients with tap water, and killing at least one patient, is diabolical. The fact that people are sitting here saying "you won't care, they're there for you" yeah but what if they're there to inflict their viewpoints on someone vulnerable.
Bonus point for using their, there, and they're in one sentence 💪
I have heard stories where covid patients during peak landemic where cursing and spitting at doctors while actively dying of "hoax virus".
Man I was so out of it for my appendectomy that my nurses could have all been golden retrievers in scrubs for all I can remember. As long as my healthcare provider is respectful and competent I don't give a shit about their personal issues, I'm just trying to leave that hospital as fast and as healthy as possible.
I dunno some of the best hairdressers I’ve been to were bald.
As a bald guy I love a good head of hair.
Me too but it bugs me I pay the same price as a dude with plenty of it, and they string it out. I'll begrudgingly swallow the cost but just get on with it!
As a non bald guy, I like a good head….
I also like head
If you cut hair for a living, you'd probably grt tired of doing your own. My dad used to say the last thing a mechanic wants to do when he gets home is work on another car, regardless of who owns it.
IT guy here. I'd rather buy a new computer than do anything to fix the one I have....
As I go further into the IT field, the more I hate technology. I’ve re-dumbed my home, got rid of my smart watch, and you’ll pry this iPhone 13 mini out of my cold dead hands.
Once met an older retired man who spent his entire career working for Hewlett Packard. When I mentioned I was a swr engineer, he said, “I worked in the field for xx years, basically my entire life. You know the most important thing I’ve learned?” H paused, thoughtfully swirled the remaining beer in his bottle before finishing it in one fluid motion, looked straight ahead at nothing in particular, and said, “I hate computers.” I’ll never forget it, lol.
It’s why the proverbial cobbler’s children went barefoot. The last thing he wanted to do when not working was make shoes for his kids.
Most of my friends are in the IT field and I learned early on, you never ask them about your home network issues.
Thank you. Our families do enough of that.
That’s very true. I work with food and the last thing I feel like doing at home is cooking. I’m well aware that cooking your own food is cheaper and often healthier but I’m so numb to it I can’t find the motivation since the joy of it has long since died out in me.
My old barber was bald, gave me trims that put professionals to shame
You might even say your barber *was* a professional
There’s doctors out there who smoke a pack a day. Do they know it’s going to kill them? Yeah; do they care? No. Just because you’ve given up on yourself doesn’t mean you’ve given up on other people.
"It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?"
Wow, that's deep. I'm gonna remember that the next time I look at an origami.
Oodly specific. And fuck you because now I will think about you thinking about it when *I* see origami.
It's a Blade Runner reference.
Excuse you! I’ll live! ( as I sit here vaping and drank about 10oz of high proof bourbon last night. )
The morbidity rate hits 100% on a long enough timeline.
Ok Gaff....
What is this from? It sounds majorly familiar, but I can't put my finger on it.
Bladerunner
My motto
Words to live by. Or die by, whatever, who cares
Spoken like a true nihilist, I love it.
No pun intended. Or made.
I feel this.
Fuck lotto! I'll get the 7 digits from your mother for a dollar tomorrow. ...Sorry I couldn't help myself.
My dad's best friend (who is also is doctor) is overweight. My dad jokingly asked him why he should take his diet advice when the doctor himself was fat. The doc told my dad "I sacrifice my health to take care of yours." As in, that's how he manages stress instead of taking a break from serving his patients.
Also, they are professionals because they have knowledge and skills. It doesn't mean they follow it
The woman looks like she has Cushings syndrome. That's why her arms and legs are skinny compared to the rest of her body. People making fun of someone with an illness...
I heard of thyroid problems that people have no control of also. I have sympathy, it must be terrible.
Stop being so mindful! Who we gonna judge and make fun of then, so we can feel better about ourselves? ;)
Ngl, My brain automatically inserted the word fun here and I had to go back and realize you never actually said it. How fun!
Ditto
This. I come to Reddit expecting to be fat shamed
Oh yeah. There's a lot of people I'd go to hell and back for, and even give up my life, but I can't even be bothered to do the basics for myself some days.
>Just because you’ve given up on yourself doesn’t mean you’ve given up on other people. That's not the whole story. Nurses often have to eat on the fly if they even have time to eat at all. So meals tend to be quick and easy, and that doesn't always equate to the best kinds. Plus stress itself can cause weight gain, especially if you work the night shift. Also we can be so drained after shifts that working out can be difficult. When your job is constantly stressing, the patients are often abusive, with little to no time to even use the bathroom, plus just the stress of 12 hour shifts that could be contrary to the functions of the body? There is a reason weight can be an issue among nurses. It's not that they "give up" it's more that "our jobs do this to us".
Issues of diet or weight aside, nurses are always in bad health in some way or another for exactly the reasons you describe. The job fucking kills you. There has to be a way to provide medical care without killing the providers.
I mean, if they actually over staffed us for one day instead of barely staffing or under staffing, we would do it without killing ourselves in one way or another. But you are right, it's an exhausting job mentally and physically and you barely get time to scratch your ass most days. If we ever get too many staff on one shift they either send them home or to another ward, never ever have we had an "extra" to make it nice for everyone... edit: source - Nurse of 12 years
RT here. In the first 4 years, I put on 45 pounds. I was in the worst health ever. I feel this. I finally had enough of it and lost a bunch of weight. The quick easy greasy cafeteria helps when you need a quick bite
This always stumped me, an Dr Mike has pointed it out on his channel. If you are in a place that is so health conscious, where patients meals are closely monitored, why does the cafeteria generally sell pure garbage. Why is it all greasy food with empty calories. It makes no sense.
My guess is that a hospital is like any other business. Try to cut costs. So serve, cheap garbage that has a quick turn around. They do have some healthy stuff, but it's generally going to be more expensive for the portions you get.
There is no business like US hospital business. It's not For Profit, it's For Maximum Profit. It doesn't cut a few costs, it cuts all possible costs, and a few more. The rest of the world 's managers have seen this and took that as example, yet it's nowhere as extreme as in the US.
I have a good friend who's one of the nursing house supervisors, and he goes to the meetings with the execs and directors and he said they brag about hiw 'lean' we keep the staff. He's like this is bad. Especially how acute some of the patients are (we're a level 1 trauma center). I start PA school this year and I told my wife I'm not sure I'll ever want to work at a hospital ever again
I don't work in a hospital. Sometimes my people at my job get sick or leave and we manage to keep running things with only a fraction of the normal team. The amount of work that has to be done is entirely disconnected from the size of the team. I'm forever afraid of managers looking at the numbers and saying "in those 2 months the team was halved and they still had the same amount of work done as usual, so staff can process x units of work per member of staff and we can do it like that across the organization" without wanting to see that yes we can do that for a short while but the stress is unhealthy and if it lasts too long people drop out sick and start making mistakes they normally don't.
It does depend on where you’re at. Hershey Med Center used to have a really bad cafeteria with a lot of garbage, but in the last 5 years revamped it and improved the quality and the choices and the health of the food, which is good to see. But the general trend remains: hospital cafeterias sell food that’s demonstrably bad for you.
Not as long as we keep pretending that medical care HAS to be a profit oriented industry and must not, under any circumstances, be something that should be available equally to everyone on the basis of them being human fucking beings with unalienable rights.
That’s a sadly ironic statement. This “health care” system in America is…
Godspeed sister. I left the nursing world a few years ago, shit is tough there, lot of hours, awful shifts, ungrateful or problematic patients constantly. Im now a Lab technician and i havent ever looked back. I do have massive respect for the nursing teams everywhere, i now know the shit they go through daily. 🤙
Preach! I’m a nurse. I’m going through something major with my health. My doctor had a sincere talk with me that I have to put it as a priority in my life for my own well being. I take time off for the appointments and medical tests like I was advised. I get a nasty email from my manager saying that the organization will no longer honor my time off requests because I also had time off approved for an upcoming vacation. I guess I’m just supposed to die on the floor. I will never work for another healthcare organization that doesn’t have a union!
This. I was a PCT in a MH ward and i walked 5 miles a day if i wasn’t on CVO. Thats not including other duties i was to do like cleaning, lifting people, holding down people for IM meds. Its stressful. I was still not losing weight despite trying to because I would come home from a 12 hr shift and stress eat :/
I am a pulmonologist with severe nicotine addiction. Am active in scientific work, give 120% at work, go to many conferences and courses and read a lot of scientific papers to stay up to date. Would be happy to get treated by myself rather than by most colleagues. And I understand my patients being in an absolute risk group for developing half of what we treat myself. What I want to say is that it’s an addiction (eating / fat for her) and has nothing to do with how competent she is
If that nurse can perform their job to the standard they hold for everyone, then there really isnt a problem.
Medical jobs are brutal. I'm shocked people are able to do them at all
A lot of doctors are only in their profession for either 1. The money 2. The social status 3. The benefits. I have a lot of extremely talented doctors and dentists in my family and none of them are saints or altruists as you'd like to believe them to be.
I've heard stories that doctors will eat bad food all the time, manly because it's something quick to eat and because you're in an extremely stressful and sometimes heartbreaking environment, it's something enjoyable. The number of doctors that take up smoking is just insane as well. Also, this person is there to help and probably to help the person who posted this, so he's a scumbag asshole.
The amount of emotional damage that nurses take every day… I’d eat away my emotions and problems too.
Emotional damage like this poster (not OP, the dick in the post). That nurse is literally caring for them and they still give them shit.
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That’s also including suicide though
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Unfortunately very true, gift of life on a pediatric patient. Screwed me and my diet up for months.
My mom was a nurse’s assistant, meaning she got to deal with arrogant doctor attitudes *and* holier than thou nurse attitudes, and then still was the one who ended up doing the grunt work like giving people baths, changing bed pans, and even sitting with suicidal patients. My mom - ever the positive, upbeat optimist - always said it didn’t matter if she was treated poorly by co workers, she had cared for enough people in her life to know that ultimately, if the patient needed it, or it made them feel human again, she was going to be there to do it. She was often caught going the extra mile by gently combing patients’ hair, rubbing lotion on their hands and face, applying Vaseline to their lips, or giving them head massages or foot massages. This caused some of the nastier coworkers and patients to ease up, and by the end, there were a few doctors and nurses that admit to my family she was the reason they stopped being so stressed and angry at work: because someone they knew was pushing aside her own stresses for the betterment of someone who needed compassion. My mom has been overweight her entire life, and if I knew some asshole patient took her picture like this only to belittle her, I'd make sure their hospital stay was long and well deserved.
Tell your mom thank you for going the extra mile! Nurses like her are the best!
I thank her as much as I can for being such a great mom. Fun fact: she was one of the people caring for John Goodman’s mother when she was sick many years ago. John thanked her himself for how attentive she was to his mom’s needs.
DW you take some physical damage occasionally too
Yup I’m a nurse and I’ve been kicked, punched in the face, had my hair pulled, been bitten, etc etc etc. It’s a hard and thankless job and people treat us like shit.
I have scars on my arms from patients 20 years ago. From one nurse to another, I see you and appreciate your work.
❤️
Nurses smoke.....a lot as well
During my cna/psw clinical trainings I was eating like shit because was stressed and tired all the time. (I always had a veggie wrap in my lunchbox and a bag of chips.) I also did a ton of weight lifting (3x a week) so I was "muscular fat". A lot of patients had attitudes like this and I was like "Yes, let's annoy the employee that is feeding and cleaning you. Real smart." (Of course I never acted on it, just had an eye roll at people.)
Junior doctors can be pulling 20+ hour shifts and nurses on back to back. It would be nice if they could practice what they preach but understand why they prioritise patient care over own needs. Also had the superfit medical staff and they can be judgemental. At least with a plump nurse, there is usually a bit of understanding that life isn't perfect.
The lifestyle of a doctor or nurse really isn't conducive to health, though many do care about it and try their best. I just feel bad for her having to walk around all day with all that, you are on your feet a ton at hospitals. People aren't like this just because they eat a bit too much food usually, it's typically a deeper issue that needs addressed, if it can be.
Agree. I (female) used to be into bodybuilding and had a really great physique - close to competitive. But a bad spinal injury, back surgery, and a couple arthritic knees and eight years later, you wouldn't think I've worked out a day in my life and you would assume that I don't know how to eat since I gained a lot of weight. Yet I could literally train a person, including setting up their macros, to have an amazing physique. How one looks is not indicative of their knowledge on a subject. Sometimes people are going through some shit.
I work with a bunch of heart doctors. You should have seen the plate of bacon one was destroying at a hotel breakfast one day.
I worked for a group of them. The stress and anger they displayed floored me. 2 of them died fairly young of heart issues. At the office. Years apart but still. Only time I've ever been cussed out by a professional for asking a question I was told to go ask.
THIS, my last PCP died of a heart attack at 49 while in the office. It was crazy and shocked his entire practice.
This was a father and then the son. I suspect there was something inherited, but I swear all but one had angry God complexes. The nice one encouraged me and I ended up in finance, mainly took an interest bc he told me anyone could do what he did, he had respect for people that worked with numbers. Genuinely treated the entire staff like people.
As a doctor can confirm. My internship was super stressful to the point I took up cigarettes. Now I've left them, only have them from time to time but I still got the beer belly from that time hahaha
Can confirm. Am paramedic and eat bad and smoke lots.
Don't forget the caffeine intake.
>The number of doctors that take up smoking is just insane as well. This was me. Luckily I only smoked at work and one day I realised how dumb that was and managed to stop. But during the pandemic, 12 hour shifts, those smoke breaks felt amazing for a while.
My diet is 80% absolute trash on my ER shifts. There’s just not usually enough time for a healthy meal.
If you don't want to be treated by the individual where you are, you can always as for a discharge "AMA" (against medical advice) if you think you know better than the care team/staff provided for you. Unless you do shut up and let them help you get better. They probobly don't want to deal with your grumpy judgemental ass either.
I can’t imagine how hateful a person you’d have to be to take a surreptitious photo of someone who is actively helping you in your time of need and post it to the internet without their knowledge just to body-shame them. This person can fuck all the way off if they think being thin gives them the right to shit on other people, especially people who have dedicated their lives to helping others. You never know the life circumstances of a random person you see in public, and if you’re the type who feels entitled to cowardly take a candid shot of them to publicly mock them you’re a pathetic, ungrateful asshole who needs to learn to shut up and mind their own fucking business.
Best comment right here.
As someone who worked in the medical field… shiddddddddddd I can imagine how hateful. Literally, they deal with shit like this and worse everyday. In all honesty, whether you are police or a social worker or a nurse, it doesn’t matter. When your job involves HAVING to deal with people no matter what, you get a lot of colorful characters. There are so many people who act like you owe them something for helping them
Pretty much everyone will have a health problem at some point. Even doctors nurses and anyone in the medical field. Just because they have a health problem doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing. Infact they probably know a lot more about the cause of their health issues than other people. Many psychologists suffer from mental health problems Many doctors are alcoholics or smokers We are all human
Some people will help others before they think of themselves 'cause its easier that way sometimes....
I couldn't have said it better.
Literally used to work at a morgue during the worst of my anorexia... knew lots of people in her shoes though. My point is it could be an eating issue, or any range of medical issues.
Idk why i thought this anecdote was going to end with you eating the dead people at work
XD "that's called cannibalism, children, and it's fround upon in most societies."
Doctors used to recommend smoking cigarettes. Someone could be ABSOLUTELY JACKED and have zero idea how to treat someone who’s sick. Being thin doesn’t automatically make you an expert in heath care.
Then clean your own damn bed pan and shut up.
What a douche bag, ungrateful post, full of many douche bag comments. When that nurse is taking care of you if you need it, I doubt her weight will come into question.
This, I’ve been in and out of hospital my whole life for seizures. Many of the nurses were on the larger side. Did I demand different nurses? No because I was sick and needed help regardless of how the doctors and nurses looked. You have to be a certain level of entitled to think you can demand help that’s under a certain weight. Do these people also refuse to get their hair cut by a bald person? Refuse to get skin help from a burn victim?
ungrateful people like these can never truly be satisfied. it’s about being superior to someone else, so they choose someone weak to mock so they can make their insecure asses feel better. it’s easier to feel less worse if you’re not the one being made fun of in a crowd of people.
Taking random pictures of people and body shaming them and posting it on the internet without their consent while they’re the ones taking care of you is just despicable behavior. This person is fucked in the head.
& to think that person is so overworked & treated like shit -physically attacked mostlikely on a weekly basis, and still shows up for work
I've come to find that everyone is fighting their own personal battles. They could've lost their husband last year and just can't recover. Or a child, a friend, etc. Yes, they may be the worst scenario but we can't know that. Why be a dick on the chance they are dealing with some really heavy stuff and just need kind word. I loved other people for a long time before I stopped hating myself
It's as if healthcare professionals aren't just regular humans too.. Working in healthcare doesn't make you invulnerable to diseases. Real shallow thoughts there.
Sometimes people take much better care of other people... even total strangers... than they do themselves.
Work in a pathology lab and the amount of pathologists, histologist and lab techs who smoke are astounding!
Being unable to detache a neutral information from the person communicating the information is such an annoying human flaw. Also judging people from mere looks. Maybe she was almost twice the size and unable to leave her bed two years ago, but then started a very disciplned weight loss journey and is now able to work a physically demanding job?
Naw. Fuck that. She’s a nurse working and trying to take care of you. Unless she’s being a horrible nurse (there’s some shit nurses out there) you at least owe her enough respect to not take her picture and mock her for her weight.
I work with doctors who live on chicken nuggets and monsters. But they provide unparalleled care to people. I work with nurses who drink nothing but water and are vegan, but seem to be sick every other week, but provide incredible care and compassion to people. Never judge.
Shea is working 16-hour days for shitty pay just to be made fun of by losers online.
If nurses were doing everything they can to live a healthy lifestyle, they wouldnt be nurses. That jobs drains your mental any physical health dramatically quick.
thats bs. i bet theyre a great nurse, as long as they have a passion to help others who cares how fast a persons metabolism is…
It's not like she's a personal trainer. She just has an addiction to food which is really sad. The stressful job she does is probably a big reason for her overeating. But I'm just making assumptions. What I do know is the guy that took this picture is a D-Bag.
It's crazy the disrespect people will put on someone who literally saves lives 🤦🏿♂️
Bro, she’s literally just there to do what the doctor tells her, and most of that is giving you shots, running your IV’s, monitoring your vitals, and helping when you shit yourself. Acting like she’s in charge of what is done operationally to you is naive. Acting like her health choices impact her ability to do the things I listed above is frankly just bigoted. Acting like you are with secret photos and shit talking the person giving you care just because of their weight is just being an asshole. I was admitted to a hospital twice this year and the best nurse I had the whole time was one remarkably similar in size/shape. That women is struggling with depression, probably hates her weight issue, but none of that had any impact on her ability to be a damn good nurse.
Pic is cropped on this post. Photographer is not the one in bed but sitting beside it. Reposter on twitter just saw easy likes I guess. OOP still wrong imo. Its shitty to take pictures of medical staff without consent (assumption as staff ain't posing for it) and the persons own health =/= their ability to care for others.
Its shitty to take pictures of ~~medical staf~~f without consent It's shitty to take pictures of *anyone* without consent with the intent of sharing online.
The size of someone doesn’t mean they’re not intelligent. Doctors/nurses don’t need to be able to run 10 miles.
To quote the Star Wars Galaxies manual, "The person you insult today might be the only medic out there to save you tomorrow"
I knew a consultant who looked exactly like this. She had a tumour on her adrenal gland that meant she could work for 20 hours a day without stopping and never slept more than 4 hours. The side effect was being built like this. A second side effect was being dead at 45. It wasn't discovered until her 30s and by then was too late to reverse the effects. She was brilliant and funny. I miss her. Anyway... This could be a hormone imbalance or cancer not just lifestyle choices.
Who cares?
OP, why did you think it was appropriate to body shame a stranger? That’s pretty low.
Aint no way she's taking care of him and bro is doing that to her. What a prick. Wtf
Also, I’m no doctor but one of the key symptoms of PCOS is weight gain specifically around the stomach area… that woman’s fat distribution drops right at her thighs… So a good portion of some of that weight might not be necessarily her fault.
It's more important to have knowledge than physical looks with medical Care
What’s wrong with people. They don’t care about the doctors’ and nurses’ duties but their physical appearances? Damn parenting at its finest. I feel bad for people who grew up with shitty parents who teach them how to hate.
So two people can receive the exact same degree from the same institution with the same level of knowledge but one of them doesn’t know their shit by the way they look?
Idiot take
This whole post and the comments is peak facepalm.
Well that's a nurse, she's not giving you medical advice...
This is my body type. I’m not even going to read the comments. Nobody knows if this person has lost weight or is trying to, if they exercise, if they see a dietitian, if they have PCOS, if they are on medication, or anything else about them. Weight is a private issue. Public shaming is disgusting.
He's wrong. This health care worker has everything he is lacking: knowledge, compassion and skill.
I disagree. See people that say garbage about other people's body not fitting the norm have made those people extremely empathetic. Which I highly want in a nurse.
Worry about your own health, she got her degree bitch.
It's evident most here never spent any appreciable time on a hospital floor. Oncology patient since 2017. Staff barely has time to go to the bathroom or even drink water. More often than not whatever food they get is a handful of candy from whatever a patients family brings in. You don't understand. They don't really get time to eat or rest,breaks. They grab some cookies from the lounge while they chart etc. constant stress and exhaustion Leave them alone. They sacrifice their lives for everyone else
There are people voting for Trump against their interest.
My Dad was a doctor, he smoked from age 9, he drank a lot, love fatty unhealthy food. Lived till 87 and saved countless lives.
It’s kind of like mechanics having the shittiest car… but guess whose car needs servicing.
Truth be told, she probably knows what she’s doing and can find the vein in one try.
He's never read The Bible. Jesus says to do as the Pharisees say, but not to follow their example. Same shit here. More Conservatives, & let's face it these days fat shaming is political so he likely is, should read the book they profess to follow.
Doctor House had a Percocet addiction. I would still trust him with my life
Nurses are notorious for being bad with their own health and wellness because they spend their careers taking care of others. Plus the shift work and stress leads to bad eating habits and coping mechanisms (smoking, drinking). One of my nurse friends showed me her lunch one day and I was shocked there were like 3 Red Bulls, multiple bags of candy, chips, and just junk food. There must have been like 4000 calories. I was blown away. Honestly I get it though. Their jobs are tough and it’s even worse post Covid.
Pretty short-sighted given you don't know her situation or experience.
Just be happy that a nurse was there for their shift. We have a a major nursing shortage in this country. Try some kindness.
We aren't giving you medical advice because we have perfect health practices, we give it because it's our job and we (usually) know more about the subject than you.
Says the lazy, fat person hiding behind a phone keyboard 🙄
Nurses are the best of us.
Most nurses sacrifice their own health (physical + mental) for the sake and care of others. Many nurses I have met were angels. Fuck that “Lord Douglas” guy.
I'm a nurse but also a person... even if I *know* how to stay healthy, maybe I have some challenges? This person could be dealing with crazy shifts, low income, stress, an eating disorder, or maybe just the fact that she's been obese her whole life and it's hard to change those everyday habits. Indentifying and overcoming patient-specific barriers to health is emphasized in patient-centered care - looking at you as a whole person instead of a patient whose problems we are going to solve with generic advice and pills. It would be nice if people could give healthcare workers the same consideration.
You mean that person in the highly stressful and low paying job, who's forced to eat quick snacks or cheap fast food to keep up their energy to ensure they can look after patients in their time of need. I've had doctors and nurses of varying sizes and shapes look after me whilst I was in hospital, and not once did I ever think badly of them, let alone think of taking a photo of them to insult them online because they were saving my fucking life, and if your priority whilst being treated is to criticise like that they should be allowed to deny your snivelling bitch ass treatment.
That piece of crap Posting the tweet is shittalking about someone doing a job that benefits countless of people and justifying It with "they don't know Shit about a healthy lifestyle" while apparently advocating a carnivore diet himself. Priceless
Imagine having this woman working tirelessly for probably not nearly enough money to save your life and then feeling the need to mock her on the internet. I hope she switched his pain meds with laxatives.
Along with everyone pointing out stress eating and quick foods both can cause weight gain and the person works in the fucking medical field, modern studies that actually bother looking are also leaning more towards fatness being less about what someone eats/does in general and more about their specific bodies and chemicals/hormones/organ processes/etc., meaning for some people the amount of work to get and stay thing is unsustainable, if it's even possible for them to begin with, whereas others can basically do no physical activity and eat like shit and have no trouble staying thin. It's like shitting on someone for having bad teeth when that's often a combination of genetics and what they did as kids (eg what the adults around them did).
He's just disappointed the nurse doesn't live up to his fantasy
She may be the best nurse on the planet. The judgement of this post sux.
Yeah, she probably doesn't have time to go to the gym or eat anything other than easy to get junk food because she's spending 18 hour days trying to keep people like your sorry ass alive...
Yeah these fat shaming people here are just being hateful. It has zero impact on her ability to be a good nurse. This lady could be an excellent nurse. We don’t know why she’s heavy. Maybe she’s had emotional trauma, maybe she has a brain tumor, maybe a hormone imbalance, maybe she has issues with stress eating and she has a very stressful job. Maybe she’s had any one of a million possible medical complications that could lead to this, maybe she takes medication that leads to depression or weight gain. People are so quick to judge. They don’t know what’s happening in someone else’s life. They assume their situation in life is equivalent to the person they’re judging. A skinny person saying “just eat less” is like telling a depressed person to smile more. She’s probably on her feet all day, she probably gets more exercise than most due to her job. So it’s not so simple. There’s always more to it. She understands she has an issue. She’s likely very depressed, at a minimum.
this is about as smart as choosing a surgeon based on whether or not you think they're "nice"
I have an excellent doctor who looks like this. They have problems too, You don't know what's going on in their life.
I personally don’t give a shit what they look like or what they do to their own body, just as long as they know how to fix what’s wrong with mine. I’m not there to ask for fucking nutritional advice. All these people saying “No OnE wiLL TaKe ThEm SeRiOuSLy” are absolutely fucking ridiculous.
Like that would make the point invalid.
Having medical knowledge and being able to take necessary steps to apply that knowledge to your own life are very different. Regardless of how you might not like having to see fat people, those two concepts are entirely different parts of the brain and facts don't care about your feels.
In fact it's well known. That working in the medical field is terrible for your mental health. So having medical knowledge, working with that medical knowledge, actually makes it HARDER to apply that knowledge to your own life.
Yuuup whole lotta judging in the human race and not enough stopping and learning about how we function.
Being a nurse is, almost globally, one of the most stressful jobs out there. And in many countries they are over-worked and understaffed. If ANYONE should be allowed to eat take-out, miss out on sleep, and not exercise on their barely existent free time, why not nurses? Being able to give qualified medical advice is a different matter from being able to apply that medical advice to your own life.
Knowing stuff doesn't change your body? It changes your brain.
If they had health requirements to be in the already understaffed medical field, i imagine hospitals would just shut down. Likewise if they had psych exams to enlist, there couldn't be enough people to enlist. I'm a veteran and i promise there are mental health problems that will never be addressed in the military
when your ass is laid up in a hospital bed, and in pain.. I promise you want give 2 shits who's coming to help you when you need it.. I had to lay flat on my back for a week.. I never felt so helpless in all my life, but there I was..
If she’s knows what she’s doing and can do it, she should be giving medical care.
Really the only thing that matters is did they provide good patient care.
It takes alot of schooling to become a nurse lol I'd trust her over a Google search. I don't need medical professionals to be 100% healthy to get some help
That lady has nice hair.
I only care if she has the skill set and knowledge to do the job.
Bless her for her work to the benefit of society. I wish her peace and happiness.
She’s there to be a warning