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Corinne Wilder's avatar

There must be a Nuremberg court on all of this evidence. It is extremely important because the same people who did all of these horrendous atrocities are still working in hospitals, doctors still practicing “medicine”.

I knew when the job market took aim at a nursing profession it attracted the wrong type of person to nursing. Not the nurses of other generations who took it seriously but the “let’s get rich” generation. Until we start in this our healthcare cannot go forward. Avoiding hospitals at any cost or these physicians is a survival strategy now.

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Raphael's avatar

Sociopaths are everywhere today, and some of them work in hospitals. Hospitals are strictly businesses. Do not expect to be cared for in a hospital, but expect to be processed and exploited for the revenues you can potentially bring. The bottom line rules everything they do, and erases the humanity of the staff, if they had any to begin with.

Another aspect of the problem is that even a well-meaning hospital staff eventually becomes callous because these individuals see suffering and death almost every day and quickly learn to no longer care. A living person becomes merely a breathing body to them. Eventually, some of them come to resent needy patients and especially their distressed families, which they see as a nuisance because families have and express feelings and concerns for the breathing body (for the suffering or dying patient). They would rather not deal with that.

It is a cold world, but it does not get much colder and inhumane than in a hospital or a nursing home, where much abuse occurs, unless you are wealthy and can afford the best. In a world ruled by money, the poor and the working class (and now even the middle class) are indeed treated like livestock and with absolute contempt, and always have been.

I was married to a head nurse working in the ER by the way. She was one of the few who actually cared, but doctors almost never did. The nurses did all the work, the doctors spent as little time with each patient as possible and did the minimum required.

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