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Nursing is not for sissies

Getting time off from work can be incredibly difficult here in the United States. Especially if you're not working an office job. In restaurants, it was always hell trying to find someone to cover a shift even with a week's notice, and if I was planning for a vacation, my boss would try to negotiate with me. “Why don't you take the week after, it will be less busy?” It's truly astounding - and despicable - how employers think they can dictate these aspects of ones life. Now that I am in the eve…

Why are are these okay?

Anyone who lives in the United States is well aware that health insurance feels like a huge scam. But what if hospitals and health insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group, Anthem, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, and others were actually honest about how horrifically terrible they are? Roger Horton investigates.

Why do so many people get sick during the holiday season ? Nobody likes being sick during the holidays, especially in a hospital. Nobody likes working overtime during the holidays either, unable to see their families when they should be together most. Unfortunately, there ain't no rest for the weary, so nurses and healthcare professionals everywhere spend so much of their December working till all hours of the night. It's so cruel that there's an increase in hospitalizations and illnesses durin…

A confusing time

Being a nurse is not for the weak of heart. There's nothing more difficult than dealing with the public, especially if the public is feeling sick and angry. It's even worse when they're taking out their frustration on you, an innocent party who has not caused their present suffering. It gets to another level when you're simultaneously trying to deal with a distressed person's emotional needs while administering treatment for them. That's not to mention that you have tens of unique patients that…

Nurses are one of the most undervalued professions. Any position that got an outpour of support for a couple of months in 2020 and then quickly got thrown under the bus deserves our utmost respect. Sure, nurses got claps on the streets of New York during the height of the pandemic, but they deal with so much daily they deserve claps yesterday, today, and for the foreseeable future. If there's one thing that nurses have, it's a sense of humor about all of the absurd situations thrown their way d…

We see you

That whole bang on pots and pans thing from early in the pandemic is long gone. It kind of feels like people just became complacent, both regarding the highly contagious and deadly disease that's plaguing the globe, and the people who care for them. The truth of the matter is that people who work in healthcare - doctors, nurses, EMS professionals - have always been overworked. Those long shifts caring for ailing people have never been easy. And over the last few years, they've definitely gotten…

We all know that the healthcare system in the United States needs a lot of work. There are so many people without coverage, and the people who do have it are constantly getting screwed over by their providers. Hidden fees, expensive and unnecessary testing, and high deductibles plague people who just want to have a decent quality of life and heal that which ails them. This week, Twitter user @mrs_g_rider tweeted out a disturbing revelation about how her insurance company bills her for ultrasoun…

It's been a pretty rough couple of years for people who work in healthcare . And even that is an understatement. Thousands of people are still dying from Covid-19 every day, and we don't hear anyone cheering for healthcare workers at 7pm. Gone is the banging on pots and pans. Gone are the discounts for much-needed lunches. It's as though people have forgotten the heroes who help people who need it every day - and not just during a pandemic. Before and after our current crisis, we know that tire…

This is the world we live in.

Seriously dude?

We are not worthy