Posted on 09/04/2025 1:37:31 PM PDT by Morgana
A group of California urgent care workers have been fired after they callously mocked patients in a now-viral TikTok video.
The shocking post featured a photo series of employees at the Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara posing with patients' bodily fluids that were left on exam tables.
'Are patients allowed to leave you guys gifts?' reads the text over the first image, showing seven employees in scrubs.
The next four slides showed staff members pointing and laughing at stains on the exam table. One woman was seen sticking out her tongue over a mark on a chair.
The caption on the video read 'guess the substance!'
It ended with a picture showing at least six employees gathered around one exam room table, with some in a praying pose.
'Make sure to leave your healthcare workers sweet gifts like these,' the text over the photo read.
Sutter Health, the group that manages the Sansum Clinic, told KTLA the video was posted to TikTok by a former employee who left the organization in late July.
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It’s a low class society now. People have no standards. They don’t think; they just do things.
People gossip. That’s human nature. No matter the serious face they might make in front of you, they may say something to each other when out of sight.
Low class and low capacity.
“I mean there have always been “problem patience” but did workers do stuff like this?”
Because of social media people feel “performative.” To make what they think is an interesting and entertaining performance, which is not easy, they go for the crass. Since nobody was feeling “performative” fifteen years ago, I’d say the chance anything like this happened was zero. Who would they have “performed” for?
Mocking a patient anywhere it could be overheard by the public was a no no.
Does everyone live to post themselves on social media these days? Don’t they have a life?
While some of it was done, it was never photographed or video recorded so that the public at large could see it. It was more of a sort of gallows humor sort of thing employees would do while cleaning up after an intense shift to blow off steam. We would never want to actually embarrass patients or to violate privacy. The joking was private, not recorded in anyway. It was like watching hospital humor comedy or MASH...only with real fluids and smells.
Yet what was done here in this story was not what I was i was talking about. They recorded it and were disgusting and marked themselves on the net forever.
“Don’t they have a life?”
Ask any teenage girl. If she’s not online, she’s no longer alive. Social media has dramatically shifted the culture. Kids are more depressed and less likely to ever marry. I saw a statistic that nearly fifty percent of twenty-five-year-olds had never had sex. This tracks along with the general demographic decline which is highest in the countries with the most access to social media.
Yes.
No.
I once asked what the benefits were to giving your child access to social media. Not unfettered access but any access.
I never got anything beyond "but everyone is doing it! You do not want them to be left out!"
Actually, yes. Yes, I do want the cubs left out of this stupidity.
Great summary.
That is their life.
“That is their life.”
Their life sucks.
How is any part of this gossip related?
We have a lack of human dignity and respect for said humans and whatever was involved in putting them in a compromised situation to leave said fluids behind.
If this is humorous gossip behavior for you, get some help. Pray to God!!!
I’m not saying it is well intended, but just a fact that medical staff do make fun of patients when out of earshot. They always have.
I also never said I found humour in it.
“Nearly 50% of 25 yr olds have never had sex”?
Somebody’s pulling some one’s leg.
Or something.
Never intended to say that you did find humor in it. Why would, or do we need people involved in healthcare that laugh at a person’s miss fortune or suffering?
It may be better to put healthcare back in the hands of the Church.
The corporate hospitals and insurance companies have sure seemed to screw it up. A recent experience with 4 broken ribs may attribute to that thought. Oh ya, avoid punctured lungs if possible.
I know for a fact it has.
I was at the hospital in Decatur, GA and was neglected for FOUR DAYS, left in the same filthy gown and damp sheets which were covered with three colors of jello, blood, fluids from the IV, sweat and tears.
When I rang the nurses desk and begged for someone to change my gown and sheets, I heard the nurses laugh from down the hall and mock exactly what I said in an exaggerated whining voice.
I was scheduled to be in the hospital for a month or more for recovery but left after 8 days, begging my surgeon to release me. I stopped breathing the first night home but would rather have died then and there than to be in the hands of those worthless POSs. I had 2 nurses who were very nice but didn’t see them until I was on the way out.
People need to be destroyed over this behavior. I hope those fired nurses lose everything they have for the rest of their miserable lives.
That was my point.
Healthcare always had black humor, anal boards for found objects, and jokes that typecast patients.
HOWEVER
We were always too smart and compassionate to broadcast it outside of the break rooms and utility rooms of the unit. Never mind the internet.
No judgment
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