Health Care Providers post unprofessional Tik Tok pix

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Anonymous wrote:As a medical provider, this is wildly inappropriate. Do coworkers talk about patients in private? Yes. Do we have a dark humor? Yes. But posting like they did is so disgusting. Mocking someone for bodily fluids is so ridiculous. 1. It's healthcare. No one should be that weirded out by bodily fluids. The things I've seen....
2. We are around patients at their most vulnerable times. It's shitty to mock them for it.

I'm glad they are getting such negative backlash and have gotten fired.

You clearly don't work in gastroenterology or in an ER.

NP. If someone works in either of those, they should be posting tik toks making fun of their patients?

I don't see why you're stuck on the Tik Tok angle here. They certainly like to tell funny stories to their friends.

If you’re not talking about posting it online, then your comment to PP makes no sense…

Some people in this thread don't understand crass humor is common in medicine.

But there are a few people that seem to accept that, but are saying this case is much worse because it was shown on Tik Tok. I don't understand that when the comments aren't traceable to a patient.

Lots of things that you would say in private are “much worse” if you decide to share them publicly online where anyone can see it, especially if you hold a position of trust.

Why, given that most of us know they say these things?

Are you asking for someone to explain to you how society operates?

I'm asking someone to provide a rational explanation for why the difference matters to them.

It's going to make a significant fraction of the public afraid to get medical treatment.

Especially women. It is hard enough to get Pap smears and freakin’ give birth without worrying that your doctor or nurse is going to make fun of you later.

They are going to make fun of you later. Why does it matter if they do it to their friends or on tik tok as long as they don't identify you?

Because it’s callous and dehumanizing to post this to social media, and people will avoid getting healthcare because of it.

Because it shows an extreme lack of discretion, and was done without patient consent.

Because if these workers had to undergo these exams in their training—and they should, for this reason—and then had any of the messes they left behind posted publicly for mocking on social media, that would rightly be called abusive, even if their identities were masked.

A lot of technicians also admit they avoid regular exams due to their anxiety about them. Maybe all of this hostility behind the scenes is affecting them more than they realize, too.

If someone chooses to avoid medical care for irrational reasons, that's their own problem to work through.

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Anonymous wrote:As a medical provider, this is wildly inappropriate. Do coworkers talk about patients in private? Yes. Do we have a dark humor? Yes. But posting like they did is so disgusting. Mocking someone for bodily fluids is so ridiculous. 1. It's healthcare. No one should be that weirded out by bodily fluids. The things I've seen....
2. We are around patients at their most vulnerable times. It's shitty to mock them for it.

I'm glad they are getting such negative backlash and have gotten fired.

You clearly don't work in gastroenterology or in an ER.

NP. If someone works in either of those, they should be posting tik toks making fun of their patients?

I don't see why you're stuck on the Tik Tok angle here. They certainly like to tell funny stories to their friends.

If you’re not talking about posting it online, then your comment to PP makes no sense…

Some people in this thread don't understand crass humor is common in medicine.

But there are a few people that seem to accept that, but are saying this case is much worse because it was shown on Tik Tok. I don't understand that when the comments aren't traceable to a patient.

Lots of things that you would say in private are “much worse” if you decide to share them publicly online where anyone can see it, especially if you hold a position of trust.

Why, given that most of us know they say these things?

Are you asking for someone to explain to you how society operates?

I'm asking someone to provide a rational explanation for why the difference matters to them.

It's going to make a significant fraction of the public afraid to get medical treatment.

Especially women. It is hard enough to get Pap smears and freakin’ give birth without worrying that your doctor or nurse is going to make fun of you later.

They are going to make fun of you later. Why does it matter if they do it to their friends or on tik tok as long as they don't identify you?

I mean it’s sh*tyy of them either way, but if I saw my health care practitioners post anything remotely like that online I would immediately report it.

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Anonymous wrote:As a medical provider, this is wildly inappropriate. Do coworkers talk about patients in private? Yes. Do we have a dark humor? Yes. But posting like they did is so disgusting. Mocking someone for bodily fluids is so ridiculous. 1. It's healthcare. No one should be that weirded out by bodily fluids. The things I've seen....
2. We are around patients at their most vulnerable times. It's shitty to mock them for it.

I'm glad they are getting such negative backlash and have gotten fired.

You clearly don't work in gastroenterology or in an ER.

NP. If someone works in either of those, they should be posting tik toks making fun of their patients?

I don't see why you're stuck on the Tik Tok angle here. They certainly like to tell funny stories to their friends.

If you’re not talking about posting it online, then your comment to PP makes no sense…

Some people in this thread don't understand crass humor is common in medicine.

But there are a few people that seem to accept that, but are saying this case is much worse because it was shown on Tik Tok. I don't understand that when the comments aren't traceable to a patient.

Lots of things that you would say in private are “much worse” if you decide to share them publicly online where anyone can see it, especially if you hold a position of trust.

Why, given that most of us know they say these things?

Are you asking for someone to explain to you how society operates?

I'm asking someone to provide a rational explanation for why the difference matters to them.

It's going to make a significant fraction of the public afraid to get medical treatment.

Especially women. It is hard enough to get Pap smears and freakin’ give birth without worrying that your doctor or nurse is going to make fun of you later.

They are going to make fun of you later. Why does it matter if they do it to their friends or on tik tok as long as they don't identify you?

Because it’s callous and dehumanizing to post this to social media, and people will avoid getting healthcare because of it.

Because it shows an extreme lack of discretion, and was done without patient consent.

Because if these workers had to undergo these exams in their training—and they should, for this reason—and then had any of the messes they left behind posted publicly for mocking on social media, that would rightly be called abusive, even if their identities were masked.

A lot of technicians also admit they avoid regular exams due to their anxiety about them. Maybe all of this hostility behind the scenes is affecting them more than they realize, too.

If someone chooses to avoid medical care for irrational reasons, that's their own problem to work through.

Avoiding an unprofessional medical practice is rational behavior. Pretending otherwise is not.

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Anonymous wrote:As a medical provider, this is wildly inappropriate. Do coworkers talk about patients in private? Yes. Do we have a dark humor? Yes. But posting like they did is so disgusting. Mocking someone for bodily fluids is so ridiculous. 1. It's healthcare. No one should be that weirded out by bodily fluids. The things I've seen....
2. We are around patients at their most vulnerable times. It's shitty to mock them for it.

I'm glad they are getting such negative backlash and have gotten fired.

You clearly don't work in gastroenterology or in an ER.

NP. If someone works in either of those, they should be posting tik toks making fun of their patients?

I don't see why you're stuck on the Tik Tok angle here. They certainly like to tell funny stories to their friends.

If you’re not talking about posting it online, then your comment to PP makes no sense…

Some people in this thread don't understand crass humor is common in medicine.

But there are a few people that seem to accept that, but are saying this case is much worse because it was shown on Tik Tok. I don't understand that when the comments aren't traceable to a patient.

Lots of things that you would say in private are “much worse” if you decide to share them publicly online where anyone can see it, especially if you hold a position of trust.

Why, given that most of us know they say these things?

Are you asking for someone to explain to you how society operates?

I'm asking someone to provide a rational explanation for why the difference matters to them.

It's going to make a significant fraction of the public afraid to get medical treatment.

Especially women. It is hard enough to get Pap smears and freakin’ give birth without worrying that your doctor or nurse is going to make fun of you later.

They are going to make fun of you later. Why does it matter if they do it to their friends or on tik tok as long as they don't identify you?

I mean it’s sh*tyy of them either way, but if I saw my health care practitioners post anything remotely like that online I would immediately report it.

Ok, Karen, you call that supervisor!

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Anonymous wrote:As a medical provider, this is wildly inappropriate. Do coworkers talk about patients in private? Yes. Do we have a dark humor? Yes. But posting like they did is so disgusting. Mocking someone for bodily fluids is so ridiculous. 1. It's healthcare. No one should be that weirded out by bodily fluids. The things I've seen....
2. We are around patients at their most vulnerable times. It's shitty to mock them for it.

I'm glad they are getting such negative backlash and have gotten fired.

You clearly don't work in gastroenterology or in an ER.

NP. If someone works in either of those, they should be posting tik toks making fun of their patients?

I don't see why you're stuck on the Tik Tok angle here. They certainly like to tell funny stories to their friends.

If you’re not talking about posting it online, then your comment to PP makes no sense…

Some people in this thread don't understand crass humor is common in medicine.

But there are a few people that seem to accept that, but are saying this case is much worse because it was shown on Tik Tok. I don't understand that when the comments aren't traceable to a patient.

Lots of things that you would say in private are “much worse” if you decide to share them publicly online where anyone can see it, especially if you hold a position of trust.

Why, given that most of us know they say these things?

Are you asking for someone to explain to you how society operates?

I'm asking someone to provide a rational explanation for why the difference matters to them.

It's going to make a significant fraction of the public afraid to get medical treatment.

Especially women. It is hard enough to get Pap smears and freakin’ give birth without worrying that your doctor or nurse is going to make fun of you later.

They are going to make fun of you later. Why does it matter if they do it to their friends or on tik tok as long as they don't identify you?

I mean it’s sh*tyy of them either way, but if I saw my health care practitioners post anything remotely like that online I would immediately report it.

Ok, Karen, you call that supervisor!

NP. That’s right, reporting unethical behavior by a medical professional makes you a “Karen”.

F-ing moron.

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Anonymous wrote:As a medical provider, this is wildly inappropriate. Do coworkers talk about patients in private? Yes. Do we have a dark humor? Yes. But posting like they did is so disgusting. Mocking someone for bodily fluids is so ridiculous. 1. It's healthcare. No one should be that weirded out by bodily fluids. The things I've seen....
2. We are around patients at their most vulnerable times. It's shitty to mock them for it.

I'm glad they are getting such negative backlash and have gotten fired.

You clearly don't work in gastroenterology or in an ER.

NP. If someone works in either of those, they should be posting tik toks making fun of their patients?

I don't see why you're stuck on the Tik Tok angle here. They certainly like to tell funny stories to their friends.

If you’re not talking about posting it online, then your comment to PP makes no sense…

Some people in this thread don't understand crass humor is common in medicine.

But there are a few people that seem to accept that, but are saying this case is much worse because it was shown on Tik Tok. I don't understand that when the comments aren't traceable to a patient.

Lots of things that you would say in private are “much worse” if you decide to share them publicly online where anyone can see it, especially if you hold a position of trust.

Why, given that most of us know they say these things?

Are you asking for someone to explain to you how society operates?

I'm asking someone to provide a rational explanation for why the difference matters to them.

It's going to make a significant fraction of the public afraid to get medical treatment.

Especially women. It is hard enough to get Pap smears and freakin’ give birth without worrying that your doctor or nurse is going to make fun of you later.

They are going to make fun of you later. Why does it matter if they do it to their friends or on tik tok as long as they don't identify you?

I mean it’s sh*tyy of them either way, but if I saw my health care practitioners post anything remotely like that online I would immediately report it.

Ok, Karen, you call that supervisor!

Oh, you’re one of those people. 🙄

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No one wants to see a snail trail. The patients should be addressing whatever issue is causing that.

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Anonymous wrote:No one wants to see a snail trail. The patients should be addressing whatever issue is causing that.

Are you pretending to be a new poster now? Lol

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Anonymous wrote:No one wants to see a snail trail. The patients should be addressing whatever issue is causing that.

They are, but they shouldn't be surprised when it is observed.

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No surprise that it happened at Sutter, a low cost managed care chain that insurance companies love. My insurance tries to force me to get MRIs at chains like Sutter instead of at quality tertiary care centers.

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Anonymous wrote:As a medical provider, this is wildly inappropriate. Do coworkers talk about patients in private? Yes. Do we have a dark humor? Yes. But posting like they did is so disgusting. Mocking someone for bodily fluids is so ridiculous. 1. It's healthcare. No one should be that weirded out by bodily fluids. The things I've seen....
2. We are around patients at their most vulnerable times. It's shitty to mock them for it.

I'm glad they are getting such negative backlash and have gotten fired.

You clearly don't work in gastroenterology or in an ER.

NP. If someone works in either of those, they should be posting tik toks making fun of their patients?

I don't see why you're stuck on the Tik Tok angle here. They certainly like to tell funny stories to their friends.

If you’re not talking about posting it online, then your comment to PP makes no sense…

Some people in this thread don't understand crass humor is common in medicine.

But there are a few people that seem to accept that, but are saying this case is much worse because it was shown on Tik Tok. I don't understand that when the comments aren't traceable to a patient.

Lots of things that you would say in private are “much worse” if you decide to share them publicly online where anyone can see it, especially if you hold a position of trust.

Why, given that most of us know they say these things?

Are you asking for someone to explain to you how society operates?

I'm asking someone to provide a rational explanation for why the difference matters to them.

It's going to make a significant fraction of the public afraid to get medical treatment.

Especially women. It is hard enough to get Pap smears and freakin’ give birth without worrying that your doctor or nurse is going to make fun of you later.

They are going to make fun of you later. Why does it matter if they do it to their friends or on tik tok as long as they don't identify you?

You’re wrong. Yes, there is dark humor in the break room but that’s for unusual situations-not just laughing around a completely routine part care (which is what it sounds like what happened in this dumb video.)

What’s described is so routine that like some pps I don’t believe they actually found it funny. It’s like making a video snickering that the patient who just left turns out to have a butt-it makes no sense.

The tik tok things matters too because it gives young people the impressions medical professionals are routinely acting like catty idiots (which has not been my experience, occasional private gallows humor aside.)

Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either. I teach kindergarten and sometimes kids pee their pants, especially at the beginning of the year. Not one person who works with me finds this funny and it's just one other thing that happened that day. Would we talk about it if something particularly unusual happened? Sure, maybe the child didn't have extra clothes with them and then, the nurse only had one huge pair of pants. We wouldn't be mocking the child, though. It just seems really mean-spirited.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see the big deal.

+1. They were idiots for posting it but it’s really not that bad

Yes it is bad. They are health care professionals acting like bodily fluids are some kind of inappropriate thing that they have to deal with. If I had gone to that urgent care I would feel really embarrassed and probably would make all sorts of medical care more embarrassing.

Who are the people who think this is a big nothingburger? I swear they are friends/family of the idiots who did this. I'm glad people are outraged. People should be.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see the big deal.

+1. They were idiots for posting it but it’s really not that bad

Yes it is bad. They are health care professionals acting like bodily fluids are some kind of inappropriate thing that they have to deal with. If I had gone to that urgent care I would feel really embarrassed and probably would make all sorts of medical care more embarrassing.

Who are the people who think this is a big nothingburger? I swear they are friends/family of the idiots who did this. I'm glad people are outraged. People should be.

You clearly have no understanding of what doctors and nurses say to each other behind your back.

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Anonymous wrote:As a medical provider, this is wildly inappropriate. Do coworkers talk about patients in private? Yes. Do we have a dark humor? Yes. But posting like they did is so disgusting. Mocking someone for bodily fluids is so ridiculous. 1. It's healthcare. No one should be that weirded out by bodily fluids. The things I've seen....
2. We are around patients at their most vulnerable times. It's shitty to mock them for it.

I'm glad they are getting such negative backlash and have gotten fired.

You clearly don't work in gastroenterology or in an ER.

NP. If someone works in either of those, they should be posting tik toks making fun of their patients?

I don't see why you're stuck on the Tik Tok angle here. They certainly like to tell funny stories to their friends.

If you’re not talking about posting it online, then your comment to PP makes no sense…

Some people in this thread don't understand crass humor is common in medicine.

But there are a few people that seem to accept that, but are saying this case is much worse because it was shown on Tik Tok. I don't understand that when the comments aren't traceable to a patient.

Lots of things that you would say in private are “much worse” if you decide to share them publicly online where anyone can see it, especially if you hold a position of trust.

Why, given that most of us know they say these things?

Are you asking for someone to explain to you how society operates?

I'm asking someone to provide a rational explanation for why the difference matters to them.

It's going to make a significant fraction of the public afraid to get medical treatment.

Especially women. It is hard enough to get Pap smears and freakin’ give birth without worrying that your doctor or nurse is going to make fun of you later.

They are going to make fun of you later. Why does it matter if they do it to their friends or on tik tok as long as they don't identify you?

I mean it’s sh*tyy of them either way, but if I saw my health care practitioners post anything remotely like that online I would immediately report it.

Ok, Karen, you call that supervisor!

Well I will and they will get fired - just like these idiots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see the big deal.

+1. They were idiots for posting it but it’s really not that bad

Yes it is bad. They are health care professionals acting like bodily fluids are some kind of inappropriate thing that they have to deal with. If I had gone to that urgent care I would feel really embarrassed and probably would make all sorts of medical care more embarrassing.

Who are the people who think this is a big nothingburger? I swear they are friends/family of the idiots who did this. I'm glad people are outraged. People should be.

You clearly have no understanding of what doctors and nurses say to each other behind your back.

I think that if an OB is snickering about lube marks left on an exam paper covering after a Pap smear, I would have REAL concerns about their competency.