Posted on 03/07/2021 10:33:23 PM PST by conservative98
Thanks for that.
A common retort I hear from lay people as well as ostensibly educated/intelligent nurse practitioners (especially plain old RN’s, as everyone knows THEY know everything there is to know about medicine, just ask the brother or sister of one who often come into clinic saying “my sister’s a nurse and she says...” nothing of any clinical significance, I complete in my head and occasionally out loud) is:
“But SURGEONs wear masks!!!!!”
Yeah, to protect THEM! You’re working on a patient who has - potentially - kuru, CJD, Hepatitis BCD, HIV or some as yet unidentified virus and their blood or body fluids spash into your eyes, nose throat during a case?
It’s NOT to protect THEM.
Man I am so close to retiring from medicine (30 yrs licensed, 7 years an Army medic) I can taste it.
But I’m planning on keeping my license so I don’t have to beg some PA of NP for a prescription for something in future.
“...New Skin also works great on hang nails and paper cuts.”
Thanks. Just got some, will try it. Spray pump, huh? Can I use q tip, just apply on small area?
When I was about 20 I worked in a little plastics factory. Across the street was a poultry processing plant. One night on break outside I met a kid (16? 17?) who worked at the processing plant.
His hands were the biggest mess of cracks and callouses I have ever seen from plucking feathers. Worse than the hands of any logger, rancher or any kind of worker I have ever met and mean guys who had been doing their jobs for decades.
That kid really impressed me that he would suffer that much to keep his job. He was hoping their was an opening at the plastics factory and I felt bad telling him there wasn’t.
Chicken processing would be the worst.
Chickens are scalded which releases the feathers. Then this young man would pull out any feathers that hadn’t fallen out already.
His hands would be wet all day every day.
Even today, when they probably wear gloves, your hands would still stay wet from perspiration.
I thank God that my mother got me to go to trade school. Meat cutting can pay well but I was not cut out for that kind of work.
if it makes you happy, go for it...
As in, If wearing a hazmat suit makes you feel safe, i doubt anyone will interfere with that choice. But don’t try to make me Follow Your Rules. Especially when you are wrong for the reasons you choose to follow.
That might literally be true, at least as far as hands go.
It was distressing at the time to see his severely damaged hands but looking back now I have to think that a 17 yr old with that much grit probably did well for himself. He had no victimhood mentality about his circumstances. Cheerful guy in fact.
In that regard he was doing better than I was at that time.
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