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151·7 months agoWell what are y’all waiting on, that cake ain’t gonna cut itsel-- …oh.
…yeah that one might be unique to 'murica.
Is it US?
Yes.
Because this is the only one country I know that has slavery.
If only. Humans are pretty horrible to each other all over the globe. We have entire markets dependent on slavery like chocolate; one of the richest fucks on the planet right now got to where it is via enslaving emerald miners. Russia’s made the news several times recently for enslaving POWs.
I’m sure the list of modern examples of slavery is much, MUCH longer, but that’s a few off the top of my head.
Woo!!
I’ve been told quite a few times that I missed my calling for IT. Our nurses love to bitch about our RIDICULOUSLY ARCHAIC charting software, and I’ll take one look at it and notice one of the tabs at the top of the window says “Macros” and my first response was “have you ever messed with that tab? A lot of the repetitive shit your charting looks like it could be automated!” and they’ll just stare blankly at me “…wtf is a macro?”
Or I’ll walk past the manager’s office to see him working on an Excel sheet, while punching numbers into a physical calculator… like, dude, idk what you’re working on, but if you’re holding a calculator while working on Excel, you’re doing it wrong lol.
…apparently shit like that makes me a tech genius to the average boomer.
So… I’m with y’all in spirit if nothing else.
Idk if this is the textbook answer, but what I personally use them for most often is for catching fluids during a washout.
Say your thigh has a nasty infection - like a deep wound, pus all over, tissue is dying, not a good time. So you get sent to the OR, where we’ll irrigate the fuck out of it, trim out all the tissue that looks like it’s dying, then irrigate the fuck out of it again, then irrigate some more. We’re talking like 5 liters of saline being shot into your wound and allowed to just flow right back out. If we let that just hit the floor, we’d be ankle-deep in a coctail of saline, blood, pus, and whatever pathogen is causing the infection, so enter the kidney basin: the curve shape allows it to conform to the curve of your leg, so if I hold that below your wound while the surgeon is blasting it with saline, it’ll catch the mess before it hits the floor. I’ll generally hold with with my fingers wrapped around the bottom of it and thumb around the inside of the basin; that way I shove a suction tube between my thumb and index finger so that the tip of it is resting at the lowest point in the basin. So, as nastiness falls into the basin, it’s immediately sucked up out of our sterile field.
Other than that, I like to put all my fine/sharp instruments in the kidney basin at the end of a case, shove the basin full of sharps into a side of my instrument set, pack the other instruments around it, and send them to our sterilization department like that. That way whoever gets my dirty set in decon can very clearly see where all the sharps are, so they don’t get stabbed when they’re sorting out and wash all the instruments. Some techs will just dump all the dirty shit into the tray with no logic or organization, and it all just looks like a bloody metal birdnest, which is a fucking nightmare to deal with in decon (I used to work in sterile processing, so I know the pain).
Lol thanks! If I was going to give that recruiter any feedback, it’d be to include the pay and benefits in their pitch. They can “we’re a family!” and “top-notch patient care!” me all day long, but if they want my hours they need to tell me what I get in return. Drives me nuts when employers aren’t up front about shit like that.
A bit of googling on that hospital (ThedaCare) shows they treat their employees like absolute shit - sounds like they lost a good chunk of their radiology department because those staff found out they were being underpaid, and took a job at a different hospital. They even gave ThedaCare the opportunity to counter-offer, but ThedaCare instead went to the court system to block them from leaving. There was no non-compete agreement, and this is all in an at-will employment state. ThedaCare literally asked a judge if it could have slaves, rofl.
…and perhaps most terrifyingly, the judge actually rolled with it for a couple days, although it did eventually get thrown out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/thedacare-lawsuit-wisconsin.html
Yeah I don’t think I’ll be applying there. >_>
Oh wow… Yeah that’s cursed as fuck. I wouldn’t even be able to give a good break down on that image, cuz every instrument looks so alien.
Might be a bit crispy around the edges.
…or saturated with something incredibly toxic, depending the sterilization method.
Most scalpels are two parts: a reusable handle, and a single-use blade.
Both parts come in a ton of different shapes and sizes - all just depends on the intended use.
Self-plagiarizing from another comment:
The weirdness with things like the closed handles and open working ends are what really makes me think it’s AI.
Say you needed a pair of just normal scissors, so you hop on some online store and start browsing pictures, and come across this abomination:
Like, you know it’s supposed to be scissors, but it’s also just wrong as fuck.
It’s definitely a 3D render - look at the ‘cotton balls’. The weirdness with things like the closed handles and open working ends are what really makes me think it’s AI.
Say you needed a pair of just normal scissors, so you hop on some online store and start browsing pictures, and come across this abomination:
Like, you know it’s supposed to be scissors, but it’s also just wrong as fuck.
yeah I was going to grill those too, but figured it’s probably just a shitty render of cotton balls… but honestly between those, the gauze pads in the kidney basin, and those circular pads under the dental explorer, we’ve got three types of dressings, none of which have radiopaque strips of any kind, which is another no-no for most types of surgery.
That clip is always a fun one to send to folks who are out for a dental appointment.
Rofl I haven’t seen that… and yup, been there. I’ve had med students come up to my backtable with their gloves or some other random peel pack, then just toss the entire peelpack onto the table.
For my non medical peeps: the contents of a peel-packed item is sterile, but the outside is not. Think of a thing of string cheese (WHY ISN’T MORE FOOD PACKAGED LIKE STRING CHEESE!!!) - you could completely immerse the thing in literal poison; but then open it in a way that the package is peeled away from the cheese so that the cheese never actually contacts the outside of the package. Keep opening it until the cheese falls onto a plate; and it’s completely safe to eat. …so, the med student above basically walked up to my plate, and just chucked the poisonous packaging onto it, meaning the rest of the food on the plate is now fucked.
2021·8 months agoAPI bullshit refugee here. Y’all are stuck with me.
Sorry.
27·9 months agoWeird how everything happens ‘quietly’ lately.
I just figured blocking the 500 or so furry communities was starting to pay off.
‘point chasing’ e.g. karma farmers on reddit is fucking stupid, but I find the metric useful on an individual post. I think of them like an online extension of a facial expression: if I read a post attempting to explain something, and it’s got way more downvotes than up, the kinda tells me the poster is full of shit, which is especially useful in threads where I don’t know enough about the topic to actually identify the bullshit myself. Like a flat-earther trying to give a lecture to an auditorium of booing geological scientists - my clueless medic ass is going to be gauging the audience as much as the speaker.
Or, say I post some joke: if it gets a lot more upvotes than down, that tells me other folks folks got a kick out of it.
It’s just another tool to communicate - and communication is hamstrung right out the gate in a predominately typed medium, so I’ll take the crutch.
I recalled the Sylvari in Guild Wars 2 looking like this, but I just googled them and they’re basically green elves with grass and sticks instead of hair.
Nostalgia goggles strike again!