@stillsostrange @JortsTheCat Same. I’m an oncology nurse and I’m constantly switching out fentanyl patches on patients and I’ve yet to “fall ill and pass out”. (Except maybe when I see all the skin flakes stuck to the old patch🤢🤣)
Reminder: nurses do not report to us, physicians. RNs are not our “subordinates,” “assistants,” or of a “lower rank.” They’re not “under us,” they have their own managers. RNs have an entirely different job and skillset. We can’t do what they do and vice versa. We are colleagues.
It should be a CHOICE whether one takes on these risks. Overturning #RoeVWade takes this choice away from little people and should be thought of as a matter of disability discrimination as well as gender inequality. #Resist#ReproductiveRights#abortionishealthcare#Disability
Further, carrying any pregnancy can be risky for a variety of little people. Often, a dwarf body has a narrow birth canal that makes vaginal delivery life threateningly dangerous, along with many other orthopedic issues that raise serious health risks for pregnant little people.
If 2 people with achondroplasia (“Peter Dinklage” dwarfism) conceive, there is a 25% chance the embryo will receive 2 copies of the gene and be “double dominant,” which is incompatible with life. Carrying such a pregnancy to term can be deeply traumatic and should be a CHOICE.
-C levels of hospitals making multi millions in comp per year.
-insurance companies posting record profits
-for profit hospitals posting record profits
Congress: “let’s investigate nurses salaries”
Me: “get fucked”