[JoseQuinones]

Originally Posted by WhatHaveIBecome ↗

After reading this post, I don’t believe your story.

Very few RNs go for an MD. Why? Because our scope of practice is different and we wanted to do different things.

Wanting to “do more,” with your life is not something any good nurse would say as a reason for going for an MD.

Nurses and doctor’s do very different jobs, and a real doctor would know this and respect it.

Ask the majority of patients who they felt cared for them the most, and most will say their nurses over their doctors. We are educated in the art of caring, and the differences in our responses to this point is a GREAT example highlighting what I mean.

You could not be more wrong. Many, many RN's in bedside nursing as I was want more out of their career so they either go into advanced practice like CRNA or FNP or start over and go to med school. In fact, I would estimate that half the surgeons I know started out as RNs and got fed up with it. I think it's because surgery takes a kind of personality who knows who they are, who they are not, and that comes with experience. Don't pretend your profession is somehow nobler than medicine. Don't delude yourself that anyone who matters gives a fig about your "clinical judgment" or your freaking care plan. Your scope of practice is "different" because it is "limited." You only know enough about disease processes and pathophysiology to get into trouble without a doctor's order. There's a reason doctors and RNs don't get along. It's the same reason we RNs have issues with practical nurses. You know what I am talking about. You can repeat the nursing association propaganda to neophytes and the unitiated, but don't try that nonsense on me. The people who talk like you either have zero ambition or have other issues like debt or family commitments that won't let them continue their education. So you say stuff like that to make yourself feel better about your sucky career choice. I have yet to meet an ambitious RN who was content to wipe backsides for the rest of their lives. But those slick nursing association magazines with their smiling models are how they keep the dupes willing to work absurd hours for cheap. After all, you're in the "most trusted profession."

The rest of you, grow up. You do not have a disease, you do not have a genetic predisposition to drug abuse. You have a bunch of flimsy excuses.

[JoseQuinones]

Originally Posted by slyksleevemuckyey ↗

I would bet every single person going on about junkies in this post has never even known one, spoken to one. Just seen them on the street and thought baah scum! Just to make yourselves feel better. As for the doctor, why do you do that job if you hate it? Are you a moron?

I do it because there is a huge need and someone has to do it. I live in Puerto Rico, which as you may not know has a chronic shortage of qualified surgeons since we're part of the US medical system and if you get your license here you can practice anywhere in the US and be paid 4 to 8 times as much. But I chose to stay to help people who grew up poor like I did. So I have my own private beachfront clinic where I give boob jobs to rich Asians and Europeans. This allows me to (A) Fund my nonprofit trips to do cleft palate repairs in Haiti and Angola and places like that and (B) To be on call at the public hospital to help with those emergency cases when the other surgeons are unavailable.

But then, I guess according to you I'm a robot with no heart. Tell that to the parents of the 70 or so kids whose palates I fixed last year for free while that nurse on this thread was leafing through her nursing magazine and telling everyone about her scope of practice.

[JoseQuinones]

Oh and since SOMEONE will jump on the supposed disparity between this comment and my first one, I keep office hours at the public hospital several days per month. Which is where the opioid scrip zombies camp out in the waiting room. They all have the same stories. These days it''s "My mother died in hurricane María and her rotting corpse was in my loving room for eleventy-nine days before we could bury her. And 5000 people died and stuff and I am TRAUMATIZED."

See? Bullshit.

[Susan]

you utter cunt.

[Susan]

i wish you dead again.

[JoseQuinones]

Originally Posted by slyksleevemuckyey ↗

i wish you dead again.

And here I thought this site was "Documenting Reality," and not "Safe Space for Losers."

Drug addiction is a personal failing, not a sickness. I don't care how many arts majors with their pop psychology degrees and qualitative pop-scientific "studies" tell you otherwise.

Reality. Documented.

[Susan]

and again.

[Susan]

theres no way youre a doctor. How sad.

[Susan]

Explain to me how somebody who has been in an accident and sufferered trauma to their back, put on oxycontin, is a personal failure? Those drugs are PHYSICALLY addictive you dimwitted fool. "pop psychology" degrees? What's your degree? Come on, what are you a physician of? Lets see, I bet i can catch you out on your scumbag lies.

[Moloko]

Originally Posted by HeyJealousy ↗

Typical far-right logic.
Too short-sighted to realize that addicts are made, not born.

I never said they were born, you fucking idiot. No where in my post did I suggest that. That is something you invented. I criticised junkie attention seekers referring to themselves as "survivors," droning on about how many days/weeks/months/years it's been since they last fell off the wagon/OD'd because, frankly, no one gives a shit. You didn't storm the beaches of Normandy or pull a kid out of a house fire or battled cancer.

Originally Posted by HeyJealousy ↗

MOST happy-go-lucky frat boys with an endless supply of pussy (yes I said “pussy”, so sue me) do not turn to hard drugs as a “coping method”.
But some of those suffering from inner turmoil, shit luck, mental and emotional deficiencies, rough upbringing, etc do.

I couldn't give a shit if you typed the word "pussy," you melodramatic twat and men don't have the monopoly on having lived shitty lives nor do they all turn to drugs. So why you're babbling on about fucking frat boys is beyond me..

Originally Posted by HeyJealousy ↗

Would you rather sit next to a “deadbeat junkie” or a sadistic serial killer like David Parker Ray?
I’d opt for the former option. But alas, that’s just me.

I'd opt for neither, but alas, that's just me.