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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in a hospital with the sickest patients, the ones who have 4 or 5 chronic diseases and are now in their final year of life.

Every. single. one. of these patients brought their chronic disease and shit quality of life on themselves due to lifestyle factors that were entirely within their control:  smoking, excess drinking, and bad diet/obesity.  So, so much obesity. This is in a large DMV hospital btw.

Their lifetime of choices is now affecting us all, because we are directly paying for their very, very expensive health care via Medicaid & Medicare.

Someone is going to post now about how this ^^^ is entirely the result of poverty vs. privilege, and lack of access to preventative health care, and health disparities etc etc.  Not the case in my big hospital: the majority of these fat, sick people were middle income, one-time professionals and/or well-paid tradesmen & blue collar workers with gold-plated health insurance.  Lots of WMATA drivers and mechanics, public school teachers, city/state/federal office workers, etc.

I do feel sorry for them, yes, but I also inwardly judge them for bringing this hell onto themselves.  And when their fat family members shuffle in to see them clutching their bags of fried Chik-fil-A and Popeyes and stink up their hospital rooms, I judge them silently too.

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The very definition of a compassionate caregiver!

Ugh.  You are ignorant.  You are awful.  You should be ashamed of yourself.[/quote]

Someone in healthcare dealing with these issues every day is not "ignorant". She's stating her observations and experience. We should learn from it instead of getting defensive.[/quote]

No defensiveness here.  118 lbs.

Look at the “caregiver’s” language about people “shuffling” in and “gold-plated” insurance.  She should be defensive, because she so casually and obviously reveals where she is coming from.  Disgusting.[/quote]

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