Not directly related to this, but the other day I was speaking with someone and he said: “It’s people being people. Doing people things. People suck.”
It’s wrong. But it’s all around us.
Robert’s rules “it’s a tax”.
Well,
Let be the first to recommend this link: ziprecruiter.com, as the begin their new journey in whatever career field interest them as they leave the medical profession......when they get their asses fired for being absolute reprehensible scum bags.
Ironically I was at the dentist at a nearby East Tennessee town when this went viral. I overheard the dentists and their assistants discussing it. They were outraged. One of the dentists said that, if he had been there, those involved would have been fired on the spot. They also mentioned that up to a point, it was highly unethical but not necessarily illegal. But they said that posting a patient’s medical information online violates HIPPA laws and will result in major problems for those involved.
I don’t work in a medical care but in medical manufacturing. It took a long time and much education in chemistry and materials engineering to get where I am.
That said it is very common for me and others to be treated as though we are morons by people in medical practices. That’s not just nurses but doctors as well.
For example when my daughter was being born she had the cord around her neck. Her heart rate was going to zero. The nurses assured me the mother’s body would protect itself before the baby.
Hour after hour went by. No doctor.
My mother went to the nurses’ station and told them that if anything happened to the baby she was hiring a malpractice attorney.
The doctor showed up mad as a wet hen.
Where had she been? At a birthday party.
This is not isolated.
There was a story of a woman telling her doctor she was not stupid just because she had cancer.
Here’s an article on the subject:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
Was in a cardiac office once and the assholes were laughing about how yellow a jaundice patient’s skin had become.
Doctor also thought my story of experiencing chest pain while playing a video game was funny.
Never went back. But is it even worse when you tell them symptoms and they have no reaction whatsoever, or they shake their head because no your symptoms don’t fit what they’re looking for.
I think the malpractice insurers tell them not to react to patients, so it can’t be said they acted negative or positive.
The dental practice will love it even more when they get sued into bankruptcy.
That would be an immediate fire at every hospital I have ever worked at.
We get a repeated class every year over hippa.
This is so bad, it would cause everyone to receive another class.
Doctors do stuff like this too. The patient should the dentist into oblivion
In my professional career, I was the Director of health information/medical records, and also the HIPAA privacy officer. This is wrong in so many ways. In my experience, those people would’ve been fired.
This a BLATANT violation of HIPPA laws.
They should either immediately FIRE those involved at the VERY least.
If they do NOT, the either shut them down or charge them a
staggering amount of money DAILY, until they do.
Many moons ago, when I first entered the medical field
I forgot to turn over a patients chart, when somebody walked up to me to ask me a question.
The charge nurse caught it, I caught HOLY HELL!
She went up one side and down the other, and deservedly so.
In the remaining 39 years of my career, it NEVER happened again.
I hope this cancer patient sues then to the moon and back!
Fat skanks and Man Bun. Somehow, not shocked.
Im not connected to the dental world.
Around here the healthcare providers are primarily Aurora, Prevea, and Bellin.
Im aware of incidences at Aurora and Prevea but it seems standard at Bellin. Im aware of pretty questionable interactions at Bellin and were I a lawyer probably suggest always recording regardless of signage were that legal in that state.
This isn't even the first time they've been in trouble. The end of the article says:
"In 2023, the practice agreed to pay around $1 million to settle a lawsuit over allegations of scamming the Tennessee's Medicaid program and potentially endangering patients through unqualified staff and unnecessary procedures."
If you're not supposed to be looking at a patients chart you can be in a LOT of trouble.
It's called HIPPA, Health Information Privacy Protocol Accords''. Making jokes about a person's condition or making insulting , racist or denigrating comments will get you fired and you could end up facing criminal prosecution.