cuz ur vag bleeds. Gross! /s

Performative bullsh... bologna. Remember the HBCU presidents vising Trump in the white house? Remember how that went? So now a bunch of basketball players might go visit him too, for some show of “unity”? What, exactly, would that accomplish? Nothing Trump does or does not DO will be affected by this, and will serve…

Feeling bad is baseline, so incremental improvements on that are like major breakthroughs. At least that is the lie I tell myself. However, I have some cookie dough ice cream left in the freezer I think I will eat. That helps with the existential dread of having to work the next four nights.

Mega corporate dominance of news media. If they could get away with making MSNBC another Republican propaganda network like Fox, they would. They can’t because their identity is too well defined on the liberal side and they aren’t going to siphon any Fox loyalists, they are stuck appealing to the niche they carved out…

The people with the authority to fire them do not want more liberal voices. If they could turn MSNBC into another Republican Propaganda Network they would, but are stuck with what they have because ratings, and loud people who were on the edge of outright revolt when it looked like Lawrence was going to get the boot.

The most common reason people overdose is that they have no way to determine the potency of the product before they use it.

Wouldn’t normally reply to something this craven, but dude, we have a saying, “You don’t get to pick your patients.” Yes, resources are being stretched, but that is the way of things. A much much bigger threat is the so-called healthcare bill in congress that will decimate emergency services revenue and force a lot of…

What is also scary is some of my coworkers in EMS have advocated for just this very thing. Not many, but “just let them die” is something I have heard a few times...

How ironic. I just made a post on another article that starts literally with the words “I never noticed this.” Also a white guy. My bad.

Ah, thank you. I work in this area and assumed the worst, because I have a lot of really, shall we say, racially insensitive coworkers who I can absolutely see making a stupid comment like this (though they are usually smart enough not to do it in front of the patients/family).

I never really realized it until now, but this seems pervasive and common. White paramedics have a tendency when treating black patients to start from the assumption that whatever health problem that person is having to be a matter of personal responsibility, as if their health is poor because they make poor choices,…

Yeah that’s a both-siderism, false equivalence, an over-generalization at best. The majority of people in the US who identify as liberal are Christians too. They just aren’t the in-your-face prosperity gospel, Pat Robertson fellating, or Westboro Baptist types we hear about (because they are so loud, and bigots all).

I’ve been PTSD-like triggered ever since I watched that Philando Castile dashcam footage, which is weird, because I’ve never had PTSD symptoms before that I’m aware of despite some pretty horrid shit I deal with in my job (EMS). Is it possible that seeing that just broke the dam, so to speak?

There is a lot more that can and should be done than that. It is becoming more and more obvious that remedies in the justice system will not work (grand juries won’t indict, or juries won’t convict, if it even gets that far). Internal reviews, nor community review boards are working. After-the-fact attempts at…

Point taken.

The reflexive response to black lives matter inside public safety professions is that it is anti-police, because “they are our brothers” (and sisters I guess?) I hear this shit all the time from coworkers. Its either you 100% support the police or you are 100% against them. A lot of authoritarian bullshit (and racism).

Ugh. I work in this environment (ambulance side of things, where its a problem too, but I also work closely with fire and police) and I’m not at all surprised by the blatant hypocrisy and ignorance on display here.

Blue benadryl pill google image search sorry ‘bout that allergy tho

Be aware: Benadryl is a brand name for the generic diphenhydramine, which is made by many different manufacturers in a huge variety of forms (pill, capsule, liquid, gel), shapes, colors and sizes. We lay persons call all of them benadryl whether a generic brand or not. There is no way to know what a pill is with…

This sucks and is bullshit. Excited delerium is a real thing, I have first hand experience treating it in the field (not just people who have been tazed), it has measurable physiological effects and is very deadly if not treated. It usually presents with tachycardia and hyperthermia with an acute change in mental…