Health Care Providers post unprofessional Tik Tok pix

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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.

OK, so you're saying it's OK for them to make jokes about the smell, just not about the marks on the exam table. How sensible. Things need to meet a certain threshold of "funny."

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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.

Expecting your medical team to be professional and mature adults is not "irrational"

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Anonymous wrote:There were consequences. What's your problem?

What's your problem? Why are you so angry bro? Are you related to one of the people involved?

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In the last 6 months, I've walked away from 2 medical practices because of unprofessional behavior. One was a heart doctor at the large practice at an office in Lansdown Va. The other was a large gastro practice in Reston with a million staff members who all looked like they were only 20. The doctor at the Va Heart was unprofessional and kept asking weird personal questions that made no sense. He was useless.

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Anonymous wrote:Would somebody please explain to the press that these are not bodily fluids? it’s extra lube left over from the pelvic exam. Yes, it was inside your body but it is medical waste. Still pretty crass to post those videos but there’s a lot of dark humor in medicine. it’s a coping mechanism and its really not personal.

Are you joking? Why would they do many pelvic exams at an urgent care?!?!?!

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Anonymous wrote:Would somebody please explain to the press that these are not bodily fluids? it’s extra lube left over from the pelvic exam. Yes, it was inside your body but it is medical waste. Still pretty crass to post those videos but there’s a lot of dark humor in medicine. it’s a coping mechanism and its really not personal.

Are you joking? Why would they do many pelvic exams at an urgent care?!?!?!

NP. Regardless of whether it’s lube from a pelvic exam or bodily fluids, these patients are being seen for an urgent medical concern. The pictures are from the exam tables inside an urgent care, not like…seats at a bus station. The more you think about it, the more unprofessional it seems. These are grown adults, medical staff, posing for a photo around a wet spot on an urgent care exam table. To post online.

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Anonymous wrote:Would somebody please explain to the press that these are not bodily fluids? it’s extra lube left over from the pelvic exam. Yes, it was inside your body but it is medical waste. Still pretty crass to post those videos but there’s a lot of dark humor in medicine. it’s a coping mechanism and its really not personal.

Are you joking? Why would they do many pelvic exams at an urgent care?!?!?!

NP. Regardless of whether it’s lube from a pelvic exam or bodily fluids, these patients are being seen for an urgent medical concern. The pictures are from the exam tables inside an urgent care, not like…seats at a bus station. The more you think about it, the more unprofessional it seems. These are grown adults, medical staff, posing for a photo around a wet spot on an urgent care exam table. To post online.

Yawn.

The human body is gross. Gross things are funny. We all know it.

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Anonymous wrote:Would somebody please explain to the press that these are not bodily fluids? it’s extra lube left over from the pelvic exam. Yes, it was inside your body but it is medical waste. Still pretty crass to post those videos but there’s a lot of dark humor in medicine. it’s a coping mechanism and its really not personal.

Are you joking? Why would they do many pelvic exams at an urgent care?!?!?!

NP. Regardless of whether it’s lube from a pelvic exam or bodily fluids, these patients are being seen for an urgent medical concern. The pictures are from the exam tables inside an urgent care, not like…seats at a bus station. The more you think about it, the more unprofessional it seems. These are grown adults, medical staff, posing for a photo around a wet spot on an urgent care exam table. To post online.

Yawn.

The human body is gross. Gross things are funny. We all know it.

Your staunch support of unprofessional and immature behavior from the medical community has been duly noted. Feel free to post several dozen more weirdly triggered comments, though.

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Anonymous wrote:Would somebody please explain to the press that these are not bodily fluids? it’s extra lube left over from the pelvic exam. Yes, it was inside your body but it is medical waste. Still pretty crass to post those videos but there’s a lot of dark humor in medicine. it’s a coping mechanism and its really not personal.

Are you joking? Why would they do many pelvic exams at an urgent care?!?!?!

NP. Regardless of whether it’s lube from a pelvic exam or bodily fluids, these patients are being seen for an urgent medical concern. The pictures are from the exam tables inside an urgent care, not like…seats at a bus station. The more you think about it, the more unprofessional it seems. These are grown adults, medical staff, posing for a photo around a wet spot on an urgent care exam table. To post online.

Yawn.

The human body is gross. Gross things are funny. We all know it.

Your staunch support of unprofessional and immature behavior from the medical community has been duly noted. Feel free to post several dozen more weirdly triggered comments, though.

I'm not the one that is triggered. Clearly many of you are incredibly embarrassed by your bodies.

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Anonymous wrote:Would somebody please explain to the press that these are not bodily fluids? it’s extra lube left over from the pelvic exam. Yes, it was inside your body but it is medical waste. Still pretty crass to post those videos but there’s a lot of dark humor in medicine. it’s a coping mechanism and its really not personal.

Are you joking? Why would they do many pelvic exams at an urgent care?!?!?!

NP. Regardless of whether it’s lube from a pelvic exam or bodily fluids, these patients are being seen for an urgent medical concern. The pictures are from the exam tables inside an urgent care, not like…seats at a bus station. The more you think about it, the more unprofessional it seems. These are grown adults, medical staff, posing for a photo around a wet spot on an urgent care exam table. To post online.

Yawn.

The human body is gross. Gross things are funny. We all know it.

Your staunch support of unprofessional and immature behavior from the medical community has been duly noted. Feel free to post several dozen more weirdly triggered comments, though.

I'm not the one that is triggered. Clearly many of you are incredibly embarrassed by your bodies.

You’ve posted like 70% of the comments in this thread, you definitely have some sort of issues lol

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Anonymous wrote:Would somebody please explain to the press that these are not bodily fluids? it’s extra lube left over from the pelvic exam. Yes, it was inside your body but it is medical waste. Still pretty crass to post those videos but there’s a lot of dark humor in medicine. it’s a coping mechanism and its really not personal.

Are you joking? Why would they do many pelvic exams at an urgent care?!?!?!

NP. Regardless of whether it’s lube from a pelvic exam or bodily fluids, these patients are being seen for an urgent medical concern. The pictures are from the exam tables inside an urgent care, not like…seats at a bus station. The more you think about it, the more unprofessional it seems. These are grown adults, medical staff, posing for a photo around a wet spot on an urgent care exam table. To post online.

Yawn.

The human body is gross. Gross things are funny. We all know it.

Your staunch support of unprofessional and immature behavior from the medical community has been duly noted. Feel free to post several dozen more weirdly triggered comments, though.

I'm not the one that is triggered. Clearly many of you are incredibly embarrassed by your bodies.

You’ve posted like 70% of the comments in this thread, you definitely have some sort of issues lol

Interesting theory. Particularly given that you keep posting.