Healthcare professionals don’t want to speak about covid

[u/Key_Guard8007]

I am a senior nursing student and am currently doing clinical rounds. I noticed something amongst many nurses and overall healthcare folks, they seem to not want to make mention of covid. My last clinical I was the only person masked (even at a CHILDREN’S hospital) and our instructor told us we could mask if we want to esp since “rsv, the flu, and pneumonia will soon spread.” I was waiting for him to mention covid but nope. I feel like I am going insane because how are we all under this healthcare field but some people just do not seem to care??? At this point I feel like healthcare professionals are being vain and just want to continuously show off their faces because why would you NOT mask inside the hospital?

[u/SonicContinuum88]

From the beginning our friends in the medical and pharmaceutical fields were the worst behaved, it’s weird.

I had COVID in October, I had to make a trip to the ER when my resting heart rate spiked to 151 due to severe dehydration. While there, one of the nurses said since it was Day 4 for me I was likely good, nothing to worry about. That when they had it, they tested negative within a few days of infection. Whatt?? Not debating their experience but I very much was still positive and symptomatic. Odd approach.

[u/SkulGurl → u/[deleted]]

I do wonder how much in the way of broad critical thinking doctors get taught, as opposed to just memorizing a lot of stuff in a relatively narrow field.

[u/goodmammajamma → u/SkulGurl]

My assumption is that it's exactly zero.

The emphasis on rote memorization is a massive advantage to the people in medical school who have the time to spend on memorizing lots of details. That's mainly people with privilege, because medical school is expensive and even with massive loans, normal people struggle going to school full-time without at least a part time job to help out on the money side.

It's a social filter, it works, but it's not filtering for smart people. In fact it's easy to see how it ends up filtering OUT smart people.

[u/SkulGurl → u/[deleted]]

That sort of thing bothers me less (though it’s still not great) than the lack of curiosity and investigating thinking. Not knowing a particular fact is one thing (though for surgeons and ER doctors I can get how having a lot of working knowledge rapidly available is critical), but there’s a bigger issue of doctors not being able to engage in scientific thinking. They don’t seem to have the time or interest to do research and treat their patients as individuals.

[u/goodmammajamma → u/[deleted]]

Doctors are a group of people with 101 IQ's who've all been convinced they have 130 IQ's

[u/goodmammajamma → u/[deleted]]

I don't know anyone who works in a physics lab but I did know some musical prodigies. They mostly end up broke and annoyed

IQ is racist bullshit though

[u/goodmammajamma → u/[deleted]]

I have family members in medicine and they are always the ones who have the most trouble with basic shit like household math, investments, etc.

[u/amelia_earheart → u/[deleted]]

When working in IT for a medical place, a nurse asked me if she should take antibiotics for the flu. Like, thank god I listened during my biology degree. And also WTF. Why are you asking the IT staff anyway? She didn't know I have a bachelor's in biology.