Data shows American health care workers now suffer more nonfatal injuries from workplace violence than workers in any other profession, including law enforcement.
This is so obvious it shouldn’t even have to be said at this point. Being a cop is the easiest fucking job in the universe: just sit back, let things get worse and profit. The proposed solution to hospital violence is literally stationing even more useless cops at hospitals.
look you crazy communist, it takes a lot of military hardware to sit around in the hallway at Uvalde while children scream for help
Just some of the jobs that are more dangerous than being a cop:
Lumberjack, roofer, oil field worker, power line worker, pizza delivery driver, mechanic, mechanic supervisor, farm worker. Cop clocks in at #22 - which is certainly a surprise to all of the “they risk their lives every day” types.
https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-united-states (courtesy of the riveting trade publication Industrial Safety & Hygiene News)
American healthcare work is a joke. Most hospitals are owned by one of a handful of for-profit companies in Tennessee that make nearly impossible demands in order to force a profit, and lay-off entire departments to outsource to third-party companies that end up hiring worse workers than who were previously there.
How much longer can America go on like this?
Anyway, glad to hear Bidenomics is improving life for all citizens. Imagine the chaos you guys would have with Bernie and his socialism!
R/nursing is the only subreddit I know of where people are regularly saying somewhat radical things without being banned. Perhaps hexbear should have a nursing community. Among professionals at least, nurses and teachers have the most potential for radicalization in the USA IMO.
Also, patients regularly strike and swear at nurses. These patients will not be expelled because they are cash cows.
I’m not a nurse but I’ve worked in healthcare in the US a long time and it’s infuriating to me how nurses are treated. They get to take all the abuse from patients and their families who are themselves victims of this inhumane money machine dressed up like a first world healthcare system. They get to do that with a continually shrinking pool of resources whether through admin’s incompetence or malice. It’s fucking criminal what they have to deal with. Like people should go to jail for what they’ve done to make it this way. Exactly like the way they’ve done teachers, my friend.
Anyway, I’m not a nurse but I would still be down for a healthcare-related comm. As you say, nurses are primed to be radicalized. Corporate retail pharmacy workers (CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, and other assorted scumbag entities) are also ready IMO. They got rocked pretty hard on all sides by the pandemic, I mean imagine being a public face of healthcare in the middle of all that when literally any can waltz in to where the big scary vaccine is being given and act like a literal child berating people in line to get it, but saving their best verbal (and sometimes physical) abuse for the technician (who doesn’t even make a fucking living wage) because their copays went up because they’re also a victim of this horrible evil system. It’s victims all the way down but there are potential comrades there too.
i work near a hospital’s ER intake and at some point in the last couple of years, some Class 1 dipshit showed up, pulled a piece, and started waving it around, creating a hostage situation that went on for hours. it wasn’t even over something understandable, like wanting to put two in some administrator’s chest over a surprise bill. it was like a child custody thing. obviously, an all time move for getting the courts to restore your visitation rights: getting tooled up and coming into an ER, in full yosemite sam mode.
anyway, so there’s been a security checkpoint there ever since. gotta go by the armed guy with the security wand before you can even get into the ER. every time i see it i remember how fucked this country is and how me or somebody i know is gonna get clipped over some idiot’s personal bullshit because we were in the background buying toilet paper and cat food.
