Excellent point on straining of relationships and it reminded me of a documentary I once saw on former lottery winners. One of the families who won was very down-to-earth, didn’t immediately blow it, and seemed to not let it really change them. But even they had to eventually move away from their town and move…

It will solve my financial problems and exacerbate my drug and alcohol problems.

That’s almost exactly what my wife and I decided last night. A foundation for relatives and friends, a Super Pac for politicians we like, and several millions to Planned Parenthood because fuck conservatives.

Yeah, this article annoys me a lot for this reason. A lot of people deal with anxiety, depression, etc. that actually keep them from being able to function ‘normally’ and to say that people who want to congratulate themselves as a motivational measure for being able to function are actually being childish is pretty…

Okay so I know you were talking about, you know, ‘THE NORMAL’ healthy humans BUTTTTTT...

Very sad. *That* comment was a bit irresponsible to make. To any of the abused: He’s not ABUSIVE because he’s angry, he’s ANGRY because he’s an abuser.

The latter, without a shadow of a doubt.

Shit yeah, man. I’m also over 40, and I’m currently kinda-drunk and am painting white tree silhouettes on my dove grey living room wall for some indeterminate reason (probably because “drunk.”) Rock on, dude.

But... is that possible? What's the best that can be expected here, realistically?

They might be severely unhinged because they have gone for hours without a bathroom break, or for gotten yelled at at for being late on meds because they had to deal with an emergency, or because they get treated like waitresses when they are actually dealing with serious medical shit.

Yes. Most nurses now are given a list of talking points when we interact with our patients. It’s a push to improve patient satisfaction and hospitals are spending millions hiring companies to train and facilitate this. One of the problems is that great medical care and achieving high patient satisfaction aren’t…

Make no mistake about it. Doctors may treat your ailment or cure your disease, but in the hospital it’s nurses who keep you alive.

Sounds like a nurse I worked with (I was a unit clerk for a couple years). From the point of view as a co-worker and as an occasional patient, the best are some of the most wonderful people I’ve ever met. The worst shouldn’t be let near other human beings.

That’s not even bringing into account the MASSIVE amount of assaults against nurses that happen ALL the time, and when nurses go to administration for support or action they are routinely dismissed and/or often BLAMED for getting assaulted in the first place. Nurses are told NOT to press charges when they’re…

When they do studies about which professionals are best able to coordinate in stressful situations, where there is minimal communication and unclear guidelines etc. Nurses routinely rate higher than any other profession. Higher than firefighters. Higher than sports teams. On par with military strike teams.

A highly educated unionized workforce.

SO TRUE! Organized labor is the bedrock of society. You have a weekend? Thank a union member. You have a 40-hour workweek? Thank a union member.

I’m pretty upset with how Jezebel readers are being so incredibly dismissive and actually shitty about this.
Nursing is a predominantly female occupation and as such has routinely been dismissed as a less than vocation for exactly that reason. We have to fight to be taken seriously ALL the time. I get shitty comments…

I was just thinking - I hope she doesn’t need to go to the emergency room anytime soon!

Every nurse that I know is a) stronger than I; b) very loyal; and c) not to be fucked with.