Medical doctor on responding to medical codes on a psych floor: "We walk to your codes. They were medically cleared in the emergency department before they were admitted, so we figure they are just playing possum."
So, that dead guy in room 3 was faking? And the woman with the stroke (turns out the e.d. missed that when they screened her for cognitive and motor changes), and the one with respiratory failure (she had actually just been medically cleared and admitted about an hour before the code), and the one with the infarc... Really?
The frigging system sucks. Label them once and neglect their needs forever.
I tell no provider who has no reason to know that i have depression and ptsd. I refuse to give them grounds besides the "peri-menopausal woman" card to dismiss everything i say.
My job stresses the hell out of me, but i can't walk away while the system still labels everything they say and feel as a symptom. We are all humans first.
Hearing that doc spew confirmed that i have a lot of work left to do.
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