[–] Yulia 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I know being a nurse is your job/career but moving patients that heavy is seriously going to fuck up your back. My mother was a nurse for 20ish years, her back is now mega fucked up. Her 1st lumbar vertebrae is a couple cm out of place, she constantly takes pain medication, she walks with a limb/cane, she's had one spinal ablation done and is now waiting for a second, and she is looking into spinal surgery to fix the disk out of place.
Please, please, please, be careful.
[–] shitlordnurse [S] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I used to have the mentality that I should make every sacrifice for my patients, that was just the job of being a nurse. No more. When a 6' 300 lb patient refused to let me get help or equipment to help move him out of bed, I stood to the side and let him fall. I no longer will sacrifice my own health and safety for one stubborn patient, when there are so many others in the present and future I could help.
[–] burntfishnchips 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I have a lot of respect for nurses and EMTS. You guys get the butt of all the shit. You do the heavy lifting (pun intended) and have to hear the bad end of the whale mouth. The hospital system and medical health care system as a whole needs to change. They need to stop catering horribly to these eatbeasts at the cost of their own medical residents and taxpayer dollars.
The problem is they literally cant. Almost 70% of the population is fat, so if a hospital refused to cater to the majority of patients they'd be shut down unfortunately
[–] stefwithanF 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I don't know why I clicked the illustrations so early in the am, but I salute you for having the fortitude to endure this. I don't understand a dude getting so fat he loses his dick. I'm married to a man & have 2 boys, & their dicks are insanely important to them. I doubt there's anything they would pick over access to their dick :/
[–] GrammarStalinist ago
It most really suck for shitlord/lady nurses because there are also tons of fat nurses for some stupid reason, and you presumably have to pick up the slack for them. I hope you don't mess up your back!
[–] shitladyRN 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is exactly why I went into pediatrics instead of adults. Fuck the fats, I can't even pretend to care about their self-induced medical conditions.
[–] RonaldMcShitlord ago
Is it just me or does feeding obese people when they are in a hospital seem a little weird? It's like giving booze to an alcoholic or drugs to a junkie, when they are in the hospital, which of course would never happen.
[–] MahLardy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Preach it. I looked after a megabeast in residency and it was so fat, the automatic scale built into the bed was giving us an "Err" message. My idiot preceptor wanted to have it weighed daily and was about to order that when I said "You can't do this to our nurses." The beast "reckon'd" it weighed 'round 300 lbs when the automatic scale topped out at 450, so we knew it had to be more than that for sure to make the scale conk out. Keep up the good work, those of us doctors with half a brain know how much it fucking sucks for you guys to look after these monstrosities.
Edit: the daily weighing would've involved the nurses getting this beast off the bed into some sort of chair and hauling it into the basement to use the industrial scale in our hospital physical plant, then hauling it back up. Being conservative and assuming the beast was "only" 500 lbs, that would've been 125 lbs per nurse for 4 staff - that's the equivalent of one nurse picking up an average-sized old lady patient on their own, which would never be acceptable.
[–] HitlerDinduNufin 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I have been to an ER exactly once in my entire life and had one overnight stay in a hospital due to NFCI (boarder line frostbite). My mum was a nurse and I have friends who were nursing students at uni. I have nothing but the highest respect for people who do that job and it only makes me hate fat people a thousand times more. Every chubber i see represents a problem for a whole team of medical professionals who should be using their extremely valuable time and skills on people who actually deserve it, not on these 40 year old children who think cake and sloth is an entitlement.
OP has my awe and respect. If I had to work in an American hospital, I would probably end up on death row.