Yeah-I think fields where you’re dealing with people in crisis all the time are likely to give you compassion fatigue. My former best friend has been a nurse for a number of years, as are a number of people in her family. They do heroic work, but man, they got no sympathy for no body, at least when it comes to stuff…

I assumed their argument is “just let those losers die”. It’s not much of an argument.

It’s this weird warped sense of ‘accountability’, where someone who needs help shouldn’t get it because they don’t deserve it because at some point they fucked up (especially if they fucked up by being poor)

Is their argument that this child could just as easily have been trapped in the car with two parents in anecephalic shock because they couldn’t get epi pens? Like, I see this picture and think “oh god we need MORE drug treatment options in this country” because this is literally a picture of the horrors and harms of…

Then time to stop being an EMT for a bit. I’m a teacher and when I see teachers who clearly have begun to hate any kid who defies them or makes their job more difficult in any way, I want to send them a note telling them it’s time to exit for awhile and do something else.

I think first responders get exhausted and frustrated with addicts, and that’s understandable, but it becomes toxic and dangerous when medical professionals slip into that mode where they start to think about who deserves the care they give and who does not. My sister has become markedly more callous and cynical since…

It would be disturbing from any regular human being to see that sort of callous attitude, but from medical people it’s especially alarming. Like, why are you equating one situation with the other at all? Don’t they all deserve our sympathy? Is this the life they would have chosen for themselves? I feel as though this…

YES that shit is tripping me the fuck out.

“Oh no, someone somewhere is getting something I don’t need!”

There’s no consideration for the child’s privacy here. His well-being is clearly secondary to the object lesson he can provide in the eyes of this department.

That’s fucked. Heroin is destroying lives and this is the response? Not advocating good rehab programs, not railing against a rehab industry that exists only to Hoover up government money by keeping people hooked for as long as possible and relapsing as often as possible...nope, let’s just post photos of people at…

It has always bugged the shit out of me that these cops stopped to take a picture instead of fucking helping them instantly. INSTANTLY. That child should have INSTANTLY been removed from that car and that situation and his grandparents should have been INSTANTLY assessed for overdose. Why in the fuck did they take…