RIP Thread

[moocow]

Sepsis has really been on an upswing it seems lately. Got that Nascar guy recently too and a few others. I've known some people with close calls with it. Absolutely an ER immediate emergency of the worst type.

In my recent experience with the ER there was an unacceptable lack of communication between nurses and doctors. More than once the doctor would chastise the nurse/s in my presence saying this should have been brought to attention hours ago. The health care system in the US is overburdened and clearly there are preventable deaths occurring as a result.

Sepsis deaths caused by/in the ER are on the rise rather substantially in the US. Nurses fucking suck at their jobs, especially in ERs. They ignore patients' complaints about symptoms (new while in-hospital and even their presenting symptoms), fail to report important changes and information to doctors, ignore the scolding they receive from said doctors for that failure, don't check on patients often enough, don't notice or recognize obvious crash signs, and the excuse is "overworked" when IRL it's laziness and burnout.

You practically have to be your loved one's NP at an ER if you want to hold out any hope of their surviving the experience. There are two nurses who fucked up my aunt's medical care during the COVID days (she passed, sadly) through miscommunication and my parents couldn't fix it because they wouldn't allow them into the room with her (this was during the retarded "you have to stay separated by glass while we go in with paper face masks" phase of that grand experiment). Those nurses are alive today solely because my parents still won't disclose their names to me (and Alzheimer's has claimed my father's memory now anyway) and I can't find any of the paperwork.

Yeah but she didn't deserve to die over it.
Jake Gyllenhaal on the other hand...

Brokeback Mountain was his real crime. He'll pay for that in this life or the next.