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Posted on 09/03/2025 7:26:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Several urgent care workers in Santa Barbara have been fired after a TikTok taken inside medical exam rooms went viral over Labor Day weekend, officials confirmed to KTLA.
The post shows a compilation of photos where Sansum Clinic workers are joking and posing with patients’ bodily fluids left on exam tables.
Text over one of the first images reads, “Are patients allowed to leave you guys gifts?” followed by slides showing staff laughing, pointing, and even posing playfully around the stains with the caption: “guess the substance!” In another frame, the on-screen words say “all shades and opacities.”
In the last frame of the post, the text on top of a group photo around a stain reads, “make sure to leave your healthcare workers sweet gifts like these!”
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I don’t see their “offense” of posing with the urine samples and commenting on them as a fireable one.
I do however, see their stupidity of making a video of it and posting it on TikTok as a completely fireable offense.
I used to work in healthcare and we used to joke around.
Many years ago, I worked with a very attractive, vivacious young lady from Australia. She was very slender, had short, pixie-ish blond hair, and very green eyes. We were both married in good relationships, so there was nothing beyond simple flirting and good natured humor between us.
One day, we were moving a patient onto a scan table, me on one side, she facing me on the other, and as I put my hands under the elderly woman’s shoulders to help her move a little more, I said to the woman “Just move your fanny down this way a little bit...”
I was looking at this attractive Australian woman’s face as I said it, and I saw her pale delicate skin turn a bright shade of red as she covered her mouth with the fingers of her other hand but I could see the corners of her mouth on either side of her fingers twitching as if she was going to lose it and break into a giggle.
I was taken aback, and said “Uhh...wha...wha...what?” but she didn’t say anything.
When we went outside the room, I said “What? Did I say something?”
She stuttered and choked a little before saying “In Australia, “fanny” means the front...not the back!”
It was hilarious to see her face, still a jaunty shade of red!
We used to joke around-one time, I had one of those plastic urinals with a handle on it you give to a male patient to take a piss in, and I poured some Mountain Dew into it, which has a color that closely approximates urine.
I walked up to her and said “Do you see any blood in this?” She examined it and shook her head in the negative, at which I said “Good!” and proceeded to take a swallow from the container!
A few weeks later, she came up to me with a bed pan with toilet paper and what looked like very loose dark stool in it, she wearing gloves, etc. She stopped in front of me, and looked expectantly at me. When I said “What? Am I supposed to admire that or something as I looked at the bed pan, she grabbed some of the loose stool and popped some in her mouth!
I said “Whaaaaaaa...” and she cut me off laughing...she had taken the bedpan with the toilet paper and placed a couple of Tootsie Rolls on it and heated it up in the microwave to flatten them out!
She definitely got me there! I should have been onto her quicker, but...I was distracted!
But we didn’t make a video of it and post it on TikTok.
Yeah, exactly. Private joke vs public mockery, big difference.
I’ve personally witnessed this kind of negligent behavior from ER night shift nursing staff (Its ALWAYS night shift) at Decatur Morgan General Hospital, Decatur, Alabama. This hospital is known as “the place where people go to die” by folks in Decatur and Hartselle.
If both were plastics, be it known a lot of plastic is porous if not food grade.
*Food grade plastic barrels and totes are very porous.
I was very careful to never publicly air anything about my place of employment in any online forum. Even something good or positive.
This TikTok, Facebook, YouTube stuff of people posting their videos is just downright stupid.
No Worries!
By next week, they will all be “honored guests” on The View.
Of course...didn’t much care, to be honest. They weren’t sterilized and reused, they were plastic and off a shelf.
When I was a kid, we found a large bottle of pure mercury, and we played with it for months before it was discovered and taken away from us, pouring it into our hands, onto the floor, breaking it up into little pools and watching them all coalesce back into one big pool, etc.
I ran behind the trucks spraying for mosquitoes, reveling in being completely encased in the vapor!
When I was a military dependent, I broke into an abandoned building, broke off ten foot sections of asbestos steam pipe wrapping and threw it against the wall, where it exploded into a cloud of white dust that covered me head to foot, and the only thing with color other than the asbestos powder were my eyes and my mouth.
As a teenager back in the early Seventies, I had a job at a startup, and was cleaning epoxy resin from the large aluminum pots (that they use for cooking in industrial settings such as schools and military installations that hold 30 gallons) with pure Benzene. I lost consciousness, and when my boss found me and took my head out to bring me back, my forehead, cheeks, nose, and chin had no feeling at all, and my brain was buzzing.
When I was in the Navy, I would get covered with JP-4 Jet Fuel (like kerosene) to the point it turned parts of my skin beet red where my coveralls rubbed against the skin.
I drank excessively for years before I lost the energy to do it anymore!
I guess I look at that single swig of Mountain Dew from that plastic urinal, and I just don’t think that will be the thing that will kill me in the end!
But I know what you mean...:)
Really. Not even funny videos. I guess they get their ideas of humor from Colbert, kimmel, Stewart. All incredibly unfunny.
Pee Pee Ca Ca Poopoo. Say that 5 times fast. See. Made you do it.
Yeah, it’s like we now live in a culture of exhibitionism, in the very worst sense of the word!
These healthcare workers FAFOd big time.
Sadly.
Along with Seth Meyers.
That is a very odd post. Reads like a romance novel and then turns gross.
The post is BS. Pure fantasy.
It’s not so funny when the joke is on you or your loved one. Private jokes about a patient’s condition among medical professionals are in bad taste, if not unprofessional.
“Sickness can surely take the mind
Where minds can’t usually go”
Of course...I worked in healthcare for 50 years, and my wife was a critical care nurse, so I was not in the least offended by these people mugging it up with urine samples.
It was a very stressful career and often sad, and humor is one way people deal with it. I used to go to Christmas parties and would listen to the bawdy, raunchy, hilarious stories told by all the nurses my wife worked with, and they poked fun at things that would probably offend some people who didn’t understand it.
I understood it all very well.
I have made it a point over the years to reach out and acknowledge and speak to veterans, many of them combat veterans, and the stories they tell about being at war are fascinating, yet both sad, and...funny.
I notice that they very much enjoy the funny ones, and when you listen to them out of the context of whatever immediate context they were in, they sound almost macabre, and you sometimes wonder how people find humor in those kinds of things.
Yet, they do.
I suspect that police and firefighters also are quite interesting to listen to at their “closed” parties where they laugh at certain things when non-police/firefighters are not around.
I think it is a coping mechanism, I think I get it...:)
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