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Been a fan for a long time but as a recovered addict watching 2 medical professionals, one who admittedly doesn't have a loved one who's struggled with addiction, argue against the benefits of harm reduction methods in communities was absolutely nauseating. Please do research instead of pushing the stigma we are trying to fight. Just lost a long time sub. I'm genuinely hurt and thought you were better than this.
I was assaulted recently in LTC by a 103 year old veteran. Honestly, I was impressed. He's ONE HUNDRED AND THREE, and he really fucked up the skin on my throat and pulled a double fistful of my hair out. GREAT guy, one of my favorite patients, he was really confused that day.
Hi Steve, I'm a fellow Medical Social Worker! Thank you for having a medical social worker for Social Worker Appreciation month!!! We deal with a lot of shit...but in the end, it's just so all rewarding.
I have to say I'm sorry, cause I didn't even knew it was a thing and I feel bad you don't get the recognition that you disserve cause damn... What a work. You're an angel for choosing this path. I thank you.
What is a medical social worker. Is it like my insurance asking me if I need a case manager? I have 7 specialists, my daughter has 3, hubs has 5. My mental health is horrible and I’m awful at keeping and making appointments. But after I signed up nothing happened
I absolutely love people and want only the best for them but these extreme cases of Mental Health problems and psychotic behaviours would be impossible for me - and if anyone attacked me, I would be crushed. Even the nutty cases that Steve profiles who come into the ER drive me crazy. No wonder he reverts to comedy.
Thanks for honoring social workers during our month! Was a medical social worker for almost 30 years. Trying to balance the competing pressures of money, lack of health care and mental health resources, the prevalence of violence, and the housing crisis is a huge task and the “wins” are sometimes tiny. I always said if a bunch of us got together and wrote a book, no one would believe it.
The "dark humor" helps you cope. Also, having conversations and laughing at the chaos of it all is all you can do. I love how you take the time to highlight amazing health care workers and share your experiences.
Bless the social workers. ❤Overworked, underpaid, misunderstood. I’ll never forget a homeless patient with cancer who was unable to keep their wound clean and was hospitalized for sepsis. SW got involved right away and patient was discharged to a stable shelter.
I have NOTHING but RESPECT and appreciation for social workers, nurses, case workers that are constantly pushing through and working in a totally broken system that these wack-ass politicians never seem to think is important. God bless you all!!!!
I'm a social worker, 11 years. This interview brought me back to the very first lesson on the first day of Intro to Social Work class in undergrad: "They call it the impossible profession."
Thank you for having her on! What a great guest. When I'm called in for a trauma and see a social workers report, I'm just ecstatic. It's the only time I get a really good history, and I've used it to keep the staff safe, the patient safer, and it makes us able to give more needed care. Social workers are amazing. Also, I sometimes wish that I'd had gone into horticulture instead of nursing.....
I’m a nurse with a daughter who went way out there into the drug wilds. It’s been the medical social workers who have helped me keep her safe from the kinds of horrors I’ve read in my patients’ charts. Work with your social workers with the utmost respect. They are magical miracle workers.
I never feel bad about finding a laugh amidst crap.Humor is a transcendental experience. When you are able to laugh at something horrible, you are processing the situation with wisdom and empathy and other emotions and transforming it into someting more palatable to chew on. Last week I was giggling because a patient with reoccuring osteomyelitis from drug use had a diagnosis of MILD heroin addiction. I would hate to see what moderate heroin addiction looked like.
I love medical staff. My most recent endeavor was a subarachnoid hemorrhage from a ruptured carotid aneurysm. (Have almost been killed in car accident, accidental poisoning, have had numerous broken bones, etc) I thank healthcare professionals when I can and I admire them quietly at all other times. Thank you who give so much of yourself. Thank you from all of us you have helped.
Thank you for this. I'm dealing with a friend that got out of a thematic relationship with her husband. He was sentenced to 6 years in jail for what he did to her. I'm walking on a path with her for all the abuse and treatment. You do really put your hearts out there to help people. Thank you for everything. Keep up the great work you do.
Please talk to more folks suffering from addiction. It is a brain disease centered in the lizard brain, which subconsciously tells us we need drugs as much as we need oxygen and food and water. It's extremely difficult to fight an unconscious part of your brain with executive functions. I have almost 28 years sober and worked as a counselor, case manager, and social worker in mental health and addiction treatment, inpatient, outpatient, psycho-social, and medical settings. And I was an IV heroin addict. I am grateful every day I got out long before fentanyl.
I'm coming up on two years myself and I'm just a few months out from my recovery specialist certification. People really don't understand how hard it is to stop. I was on IV carafentanyl my last year before getting sober bc heroin and fentanyl wouldn't get me off sick anymore. Worst withdrawal I had ever experienced. Acute withdrawal lasted nearly nine weeks.
@jessicahay9305 You folks coming off of fentanyl and OMG carfentanil!!!!! are heroes. That detox seems like scaling Everest in flip flops, a tank top, and booty shorts to me. I'm so proud of you for making it through. Treasure your recovery, each and every day, and try to hold the memory of that pain in the forefront. We're programmed to forget pain and remember pleasure, which contributes to relapse. So remind yourself of that pain regularly, don't let it slip away. Congratulations! And thank you for including helping others as part of your journey. Your experience will inspire others and show that recovery is possible!
I was also an IV fentanyl and carfentanyl as well, I overdosed SO many times I can't even count them. Narcan saved my life an is an essential drug!!! If it wasn't freely available I would be dead, you have to keep addicts ALIVE for them to be able to get help. I was an addict for 2/3rds of my life and finally am happy to say I have 2.5yrs of sobriety!! That could not have happened if my life had not been saved countless times, I get that it can feel like you're beating a dead horse continuously saving someone's life for them to just keep using the drugs that put them in that situation but it is so important to do. My favorite thing to remind people is that it is NEVER too late to get sober, the only time that there is no hope left for a person is when they die. Anytime before that there is still a shred of hope, even if it doesn't seem like it. Proud of you for being 28yrs sober. You're an inspiration!! 🩷🩷🩷
as someone whos been in and out of the er for self harm, medical social workers are so understanding. one time my grandma called the police on me, and im autistic, and they physically grabbed me and men grabbing me is obviously traumatizing because im a 14 yo autistic bio female getting grabbed by 3 men for literally no idea what i did, i went non verbal and the medical social worker was so understanding and just sat there and gave me a piece of paper to write down my answers until my mom came from work.
Perfect timing for this podcast. My mother in law agreed to go to a medically supervised rehab last night. It's pain med stuff. She has a pain pump in her back filled with Dilaudid, but is also given oral pain meds to help. She just finished a months worth of her medication of 70 pills in 5 days. Today, she said that she isn't ready to go into rehab because she has "too much laundry to do."
Addicts will find pretty much any excuse not to get clean. Getting clean is scary for a lot of people, especially if they've been addicted for a longer time. People are scared of the withdrawal. Others are afraid of the pain (especially if they have chronic pain), and some people are even afraid of what life will be like without their drug. Some people also don't like to be locked away from everything and everyone they know while in detox or rehab. Changes in life are often hard, even if they are good changes in the long run. It isn't actually as scary as it seems once they are there, though. Opiates increase pain, especially if a person has been on them for a while. She won't actually know where her actual pain level is until she's off the Opiates for at least 3 to 6 months. Opiates lower a persons pain tolerance, which makes them less able to deal with even regular amounts of pain. In the long run, Opiates make a persons pain worse. It's hard for family to watch and deal with. A lot of people give up on the person before they are ready to seek help. I actually think forced committal for drug addicts should be a thing because a lot won't actually go back to drugs once they have gone through the process of getting clean... some will, though... but enough won't that it would be worth it. Most people are just scared of the detox process, but once they are clean, as long as they stay away from other people who are doing drugs, they'll stay clean. That really depends on how much of their life revolves around drugs as well, though. Usually, street addicts will have a harder time staying clean than someone addicted to doctor prescribed medications. That's because a street addict has to make far more changes in their life in order to stay clean, and those changes are harder to make... they'd lose most, if not all, of their "friends," and their life would be drastically different. Where a person who is addicted to doctor prescribed Opiates usually doesn't have to make as many changes in their life... Wishing you the best, though.
I remember all the excuses, it's mental abuse first 😢they work on your self-esteem , then it's always your fault when they physically start. It took me 2 years to leave.
@@TarsaMom-2 thanks, you too…. Everything that you described was spot on…. I was walking around with my head down, second guessing myself all the time!!!! He was too good at abuse. Years later, looking back, smh… I’m just so grateful to have gotten away…. If I had stayed, I probably wouldn’t be here right now . And for those that say, just leave!!! If only it was that easy… definitely starts with mental abuse, then physical…. I remember thinking, I hope that he just beats me and gets it over with, as opposed to the verbal abuse…. It’s crazy
I'm glad you got out. No one should have to go through the mental and physical torture these people inflicted on us. And it's not "easy" to leave. Unless you've done it yourself, don't lecture others. Just being there for them means a lot more than you can realize.
Hi Steve. I am a retired administrative secretary with a pysch tech background. I worked at my local hospital for twenty years, 12 of it in a combo department with Social Services. We had BSW, MSW, and LCSW. In addition, we had interns, including Phd Pysch interns. Because of my background in psych, I would occasionally back up the Trauma (ER) MSW. I've seen cowboys and girls gored by bulls, high school classmates strung out on drugs who wanted me to get them a fix, parents of friends who asked for me by name and wanted me to hold their hand and stay in the room with them because they were scared of dying before their family came in. I saw my own mother code and get worked on ( thank God she made it) and more. You have to remember its not about you --its about the other person, and they need some love right now. God bless Jessica for the job she does. And Steve, thank you for making us laugh -- you know how much it's needed, and we love you for it.
I'm a retired hospital librarian. On our way to lunch we encountered a pregnant woman in the earlier stages of labour. Her husband was tweaking hard. Talking to himself, distracted by every piece of medical equipment in the hallway. The mother to be just didn't know what to do and broke down in tears asking us for help. We got her in touch with a social worker. Confidentiality being what it is I'll never know the outcome, but I was just thankful that there was someone who could help in that difficult situation.
😮 for real ?? 😮 _ I guess she was hallucinating when she did that ?? Like thinking'' i hear God and he is asking me to do that '' or something ?? HOW is that even PHYSICALLY possible to do that 🤯😳😲😐
Domestic violence? Yeah, if someone asked me I denied it because the staff is required to report it. And then he's arrested. And THEN he's out of bail and I have no where else to go or hide, and my life and my family's lives are in danger. It takes a plan for a safe escape, and I had to set that up with the help of friends. Not the clinic staff that wanted to call the cops immediately. Now that I'm away and safe, and totally effed up mentally, I adore my Social Worker who comes to check in on me every couple weeks even though her relentless cheerfulness can be annoying. She is a constant, she always has my back.
Hello Steve and Jessica! Thank you for these stories and insights. I’m a retired respiratory therapist and have been witness to many of these stories in my career. The disadvantage of being a respiratory therapist however,( and I loved the job and everyone I worked with ), is that, at the end of my shift, I do not get to spend time with those with whom I’ve just been through the traumatic experiences. I have to leave with all this baggage, go back to my department and make report to the next shift. And no doubt there were at least several other therapists from other departments who also had some experiences to tell that also needed to decompress with those with whom they had gone through so much…. You get my point. Sometimes I’ve even done some amazing things that have really helped a patient but, because it was a desat’ing kid that I suctioned for example, ( all the nurses in the room were tied up in a procedure at another bed), and the parent sleeping next to her woke up and only saw the desat, made a huge fuss, blaming me for it…. Later my manager banned me from the pediatric ICU for the duration of that parent’s being there. No blame, but also no support or encouragement. So what I’m trying to say is that not being in a continuous connection with a team has really left gaps in my recovery from, learning from and growing into some aspects of my job that could have made me much more helpful and productive. Thank you for helping me now. I have been healing just by listening to your, ( our? ) stories.
having retired from an acute locked psych ward in a VA hospital....it was noticeable that the social workers who were women were messed with more than the males...(as in hands on) the ward was 99.9 % male patients. The male SW's were fairly large men....it did not go unnoticed by the medical teams.
I went to the ER after burns from a house-fire. They said they have a social worker if I needed someone to talk to. I accepted. The social worker told me that they could probably find me some space at a local shelter in a few hours if I could wait a bit longer. I said, "Oh, no, see: I have full homeowners' insurance." She blinked a couple times and asked, "So, why are you talking to me?" "I, um, I've never set my house on fire before, and they asked if I wanted to talk to someone, so I said yes!" "Oh, it's very simple, call your insurance company, and they handle everything. I can get you a free cab-ride home if you want." "Oh, OK, thank you." And she was correct. I appreciated her help.
Dudes. I work as an OT in an acute secure mental health ward in Australia. We had an unwell patient on the ward who was admitted due to schizophrenia relapse secondary to meth use. He had superhuman strength when he was brought in by cops and tore a Kevlar vest in half....
As a retired EMT - we used narcan but with caution to protect ourselves from assault. Now that it’s free in some places, I got some for my grandson. He’s a trucker & the most likely person to find someone down in the parking areas or bathrooms. And I’ll add.. his father died of a fentanyl OD 3 years ago. His mom, my daughter was a coke & ETOH abuser until money ran out & she switched to adderal…or any kind of pill anyone was willing to give her. She’s down to 4 teeth , & is a total burnout but with moments of normalcy. I have waited for the knock on the door from the police.. & have since she was a teen. So does my grandson. As an emt, I was happier treating a schizophrenic than an addict. They need to take their meds … freedom from addiction means changing their whole life.
Great interview Steve! God Bless you Jessica, you are an amazing person. We can all see it in you. You've probably touched more lives in a positive way than you can count. Sending you Best Wishes and Love from Memphis, TN~
😂😅 The poor people at my hospital... They tried *so* hard to get me to admit that I was being abused. I was paralyzed for awhile. (Guillain-Barre Syndrome) My husband and I were alone in my room and talking. I usually talk with my hands. So I started getting excited about something and for the first time in a *month,* my arm came up. And then immediately came down and smacked me in the face. I've always bruised like a peach, so I got a black eye. And I couldn’t move it again to show them, so everybody thought this man gave his paralyzed wife a black eye. They wouldn’t let him be alone in the room with me until a couple days later, when I did it again while I was talking to a nurse.
Happy Social Worker month to my fellow SWs🎉 I work in CPEP and Mobile Crisis as a Peer Counselor in NYC. A lot of pts still use that K2. Some won’t take their medications or don’t even have a primary doctor. The safe needles is harm reducing its part of treatment planning just without the SW.
We have several family members in health care in our family- Laughter is absolutely the best medicine- the stories they have shared- lol - Truth: they see the worst of the worst and deal with those situations in professional, empathetic, and educational ways… I believe EVERY profession, no matter what it is, has its own dark humor to help emotionally deal with the worst of the situations they are faced with on a day-to-day basis.
The sad thing is with the guy going number two evs, housekeeping will clean that up not the nurses! So he just scr** over evs. Patients do this so much to get back at nurse for not listening but evs pays the price.
Hi! I'm an ER nurse for 17 years and travel nurse for 4 years. I live full time in an RV w my Travel Nurse partner. I'd love to plead the case of Travel Nurses everywhere. I know there are bs people and they don't contibute.... but I always try to be the exception.
I wonder where Jessica works? I was a mental health professional on Long Island for 34 years. I can so relate to what she says. I worked at Pilgrim Psych and she speaks the truth. The system went from limping along to a horror show for so many clients, all because of money.
This woman is most definitely a badass MFKR! Sometimes you keep it together with coffee, sarcasm and dark humour…yes, we have a laugh, but at the same time we deal with it. And I agree with her about the right to be told the truth by doctors in end-of-life situations. Some people don't want to know, but those who do want, sometimes aren't told enough. Thank you for addressing the abandonment issue. It's so sad, and so common especially if we consider also the simple attempts at abandoning relatives (older, but not only) at the ER or in the wards during holidays or in the summer. I have one which sticks to me to this day (sorry for the long comment). Without going into much detail, I worked in a rehabilitation ward (post-OP, neurological, dementias). Major Italian city, big hospital. A patient comes in, she's from Africa, brought to Italy by plane by family who say “they live in the city” (spoiler alert: you'll see), she speaks only some obscure dialect, relatives bring her in and help translate for her admission. I say, that woman was NOT ok. We had a total linguistic barrier and weren't even sure she understood our attempts at communicating, verbally or not. Totally dependent in the ADL. She had either mental health issues or early onset dementia, but boy, the most extreme things? Those you could write in your memoir? Check - the climbing, jumping, biting, spitting, hitting, abrupt yelling and chanting in the dark in the middle of the night, hiding behind the door to jump scare, the poop throwing and, worse, hiding 😭 you had to check everywhere, in the dinner plates, on the ceiling, in your effing POCKETS. When her time was up the doctors contacted family to arrange for discharge and discovered the relatives had GONE BACK TO AFRICA and weren't coming back for her! I resigned over a MONTH after she came in (our standard hospitalizations lasted a couple weeks) and a month later ex-colleagues told me she still was there. Same issue here with mental health patients and their families. So sad and you feel so powerless to help. Thank you for these conversations, they are so interesting and make us feel seen and heard.
Narcan saves lives and I think everyone should carry it honestly. I had a friend who struggled bad over the years, it wasn't available for people to keep at home back then and I remember thinking "Man this would be so much better if we could have that here with us." when the medics used it on him. More than once, they only saved him because of how close he lived to the hospital and medic stations. He's sober now. We all are
Not gonna lie. I've been a med and psych social worker for 30 years, and i only do it for the money. I have permanent compassion fatigue and walk around saying I hate people. And I've turned into a psych pt myself. No matter where you work, the philosophy is to dump it on the SWer.
One of my dv gals got the wrong butter in the store, he dragged her out to a field and broke both legs. Winter Montana She stayed in my shelter, came in crying saying….. I bought the butter I wanted.
Social worker/former medical social worker..hospitals and libraries are the two places where literally everyone is welcome. Leads to some challenging incidents.
I would love to share my stories! I work with low income individuals (18-64) with complex medical and behavioral needs! Today I’m a lead so half my time is devoted to supporting my care managers but man, I’ve hit so many walls trying to help our patients!
The fact you mention low income people is troubling me. As a nurse I do know how to deal with people who need help and support. I am troubled by the fact you are just saying low income and it should not even matter what the patient has in their bank account.
Free Narcan is a thing in Australia. I was astounded to be given it a few years ago when I was addicted to Tramadol (but didn't know it - I'd been put on it for pain and told not to worry about addiction because I'd never be coming off it... took me a good year and a half) and that was enough for me to start to gradually wean myself off the stuff. For years, I'd been on the maximum dose, 400mg per day of fast release, and 400 of slow. Last year, I broke my back in 5 places and got put on 50mg of slow release palexia morning and night with the same of the fast release. I've managed to stop the fast release, but just last week, a chemist stuck a box of Narcan in with my palexia! If 800mg per day of Tramadol didn't kill me, I'm pretty sure that 100 of palexia won't! I'll get off the stuff as soon as I can, but still , I'll find somebody who actually needs it and give it to them.
You should absolutely be able to laugh and have dark humor!! If you didn't you would literally go insane, you HAVE to be able to laugh and joke about some of this shit. I work as a tech at an emergency vet so i see a LOT of crazy shit, you just have to be able to say "i cant believe that actually just happened" or talk with your coworkers and laugh about insane owners youve had to deal with and the idiocy that comes with it. People who get angry with you for laughing will never understand the traumatic things you've seen and gone through. Also, i was an addict for 2/3rds of my life, the last 8yrs of that being an IV fent addict, i saw and dealt with a lor of traumatic shit during that time too and i absolutely make jokes about it now!! I have been sober for 2.5yrs and one of the things keeping me sober is joking about how absolutely terrible it all was. People need to fuck off when they tell people how to or how not to deal with THEIR trauma. Youre not being mean to your patients and you've dealt with some crazy shit, youre aloud to deal with and talk about it however you want!! LOVE THIS PODCAST, am waiting longingly for a new episode!!! ❤❤❤❤
In my state social workers take kickbacks not saying the good ones do but if that patient was abused at a home or by another social worker or guardian well they felt unsafe
It is not Jessica or the patient it is just the situation the patient was in Jessica did not make the patient feel unsafe but what someone else prior to her being there did
A great dispatch paramedic supervisor can give it their all angels on earth I appreciate the good nurses the social workers the doctors that care but you think what if later their health gives out or they get tired resign or walk out they have a right things got too bad but then with the Administrators making the most money it does not help the morale of good staff
I admit i am the vomit and eye damage Nurse. That stuff is Cryptonite to me. I have clutched my teeth grinning comfortly to patients over vomit, but eye injuries.. I cave and run.
Im a drug addict too and im so glad that where i live (Europe) we don’t have a issue that drugs get laced with fenny (not glad that in a drug addict of course) You buy molly - you get molly, worst case its laced with speed You buy heroin - you get heroin that is worst case laced with some inactive filler
It’s even worse now. It’s being made up of fent and xylazine. The xylazine is soo bad. It’s causing people to black in and out like they’re on benzos and do the fruit roll up into the ground even worse. If it was real heroin it would be better for the addicts, it’s also easier to come off of.
I think the laughing and coping is not unhealthy even though I’ve had therapist say that it because I’m not processing or dealing with what happened but what do you want me to do about it? I just laugh and move on. But miraculously, with all the s psych stations I have dealt with i 20 years. I have never been hit by a patient. I’ve grabbed to prevent them from hitting other people, and they sang to me for it and I’ve only been bit once. Also, by the grace of God, I did not get hepatitis from being bit so there’s that.
I won’t even start with my stories of running psych units, but I will tell you I used to remember my last tetanus shot by the name of the person who injured me and the date on the incident report.
As the person who couldn't stop dry heaving...i am so sorry! (But it can be just as funny on our end cus usually when someone reacts to it it makes it worse)
there are frequent flyers I know the term a woman knocked on a door the west side of town the ambulance comes out picks her up takes her to the hospital next day downtown by the courthouse and the city hall talking to herself
lets make it clear there are some nurses some doctors some guardians and social workers that are angels like you two but then there are some that are not it is like with socialized healthcare 50/50 of the care you might or might not receive a woman when socialized healthcare came in and was in full use this nurse said she could not take the way patients were being treated anymore left and resigned and started making hat boxes
i could never be a social worker. i'd be in jail for attempted murder all the time. "your honor, i'm sorry but you and i both know some people need to be taught a lesson"
I'm of the opinion that drugs should be legal. Being illegal hasn't made them disappear, and I think, if made legal, that the financial incentive would be gone. Just use funds from the drugs to make anti-drug campaigns.
If someone ever grabs my hair like that, imma call it a legitimate defense and slap the world out of that patient 🤣 For context tho, I'm epileptic so I do instinctively protect myself when my head's in danger🤷♀️
I don’t think it’s about right or wrong, it’s about being human. Humans are addictive. Animals are addictive too. Once you place your judgment on it then it’s your problem. You’ve injected some thing into something that wasn’t there before. Your judgment.
I’m the worst psych nurse. I literally validated my murder. Patient like you know what just had to be done. It’s all good. Forgive yourself move on.😂❤🎉
My daughter is one who falls into the psych social worker category, then fell into the DV and PREGNANT category and the social worlers were always amazing! They definitely had very tied hands much of the time but guess what, she did leave finally just before baby was born and has returned a time or two (more hospital social workers those times) but has stayed gone now 5mths! Still not dealing with the psych side right but she was able to place our grandson with us at delivery and he is thriving! And she left him so it does one day pay off! A shame we cant update them that they mattered!
on the Square in Belleville Illinois families f heroin victims stand out there trying to raise awareness to get legislation to keep opioids and Heroin out of our county these parents and family members take all weekend on their weekends off with signs dedicating themselves to this cause so another family does not have to go through what they did
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An ER social worker from New York? I'm not sure they make 'em any tougher than that.
Been a fan for a long time but as a recovered addict watching 2 medical professionals, one who admittedly doesn't have a loved one who's struggled with addiction, argue against the benefits of harm reduction methods in communities was absolutely nauseating. Please do research instead of pushing the stigma we are trying to fight. Just lost a long time sub. I'm genuinely hurt and thought you were better than this.
I was assaulted recently in LTC by a 103 year old veteran. Honestly, I was impressed. He's ONE HUNDRED AND THREE, and he really fucked up the skin on my throat and pulled a double fistful of my hair out. GREAT guy, one of my favorite patients, he was really confused that day.
Hi Steve, I'm a fellow Medical Social Worker! Thank you for having a medical social worker for Social Worker Appreciation month!!! We deal with a lot of shit...but in the end, it's just so all rewarding.
I have to say I'm sorry, cause I didn't even knew it was a thing and I feel bad you don't get the recognition that you disserve cause damn... What a work. You're an angel for choosing this path. I thank you.
What is a medical social worker. Is it like my insurance asking me if I need a case manager? I have 7 specialists, my daughter has 3, hubs has 5. My mental health is horrible and I’m awful at keeping and making appointments. But after I signed up nothing happened
I absolutely love people and want only the best for them but these extreme cases of Mental Health problems and psychotic behaviours would be impossible for me - and if anyone attacked me, I would be crushed. Even the nutty cases that Steve profiles who come into the ER drive me crazy. No wonder he reverts to comedy.
Thanks for honoring social workers during our month! Was a medical social worker for almost 30 years. Trying to balance the competing pressures of money, lack of health care and mental health resources, the prevalence of violence, and the housing crisis is a huge task and the “wins” are sometimes tiny.
I always said if a bunch of us got together and wrote a book, no one would believe it.
It is true. So many things nobody will believe. It happens in every settings.
The "dark humor" helps you cope. Also, having conversations and laughing at the chaos of it all is all you can do. I love how you take the time to highlight amazing health care workers and share your experiences.
Bless the social workers. ❤Overworked, underpaid, misunderstood. I’ll never forget a homeless patient with cancer who was unable to keep their wound clean and was hospitalized for sepsis. SW got involved right away and patient was discharged to a stable shelter.
Solidarity with all the Social Workers trying to help and constantly trying to work within systems that don’t work and are funded to help very few
I have NOTHING but RESPECT and appreciation for social workers, nurses, case workers that are constantly pushing through and working in a totally broken system that these wack-ass politicians never seem to think is important. God bless you all!!!!
If you don't get twisted and dark when you begin working in health care, you don't make it.
Thanks to both of you!
I'm a social worker, 11 years. This interview brought me back to the very first lesson on the first day of Intro to Social Work class in undergrad: "They call it the impossible profession."
Thank you for having her on! What a great guest. When I'm called in for a trauma and see a social workers report, I'm just ecstatic. It's the only time I get a really good history, and I've used it to keep the staff safe, the patient safer, and it makes us able to give more needed care. Social workers are amazing. Also, I sometimes wish that I'd had gone into horticulture instead of nursing.....
I’m a nurse with a daughter who went way out there into the drug wilds. It’s been the medical social workers who have helped me keep her safe from the kinds of horrors I’ve read in my patients’ charts. Work with your social workers with the utmost respect. They are magical miracle workers.
I never feel bad about finding a laugh amidst crap.Humor is a transcendental experience. When you are able to laugh at something horrible, you are processing the situation with wisdom and empathy and other emotions and transforming it into someting more palatable to chew on.
Last week I was giggling because a patient with reoccuring osteomyelitis from drug use had a diagnosis of MILD heroin addiction. I would hate to see what moderate heroin addiction looked like.
I love medical staff. My most recent endeavor was a subarachnoid hemorrhage from a ruptured carotid aneurysm. (Have almost been killed in car accident, accidental poisoning, have had numerous broken bones, etc)
I thank healthcare professionals when I can and I admire them quietly at all other times.
Thank you who give so much of yourself. Thank you from all of us you have helped.
Thank you for this. I'm dealing with a friend that got out of a thematic relationship with her husband. He was sentenced to 6 years in jail for what he did to her. I'm walking on a path with her for all the abuse and treatment. You do really put your hearts out there to help people. Thank you for everything. Keep up the great work you do.
Please talk to more folks suffering from addiction. It is a brain disease centered in the lizard brain, which subconsciously tells us we need drugs as much as we need oxygen and food and water. It's extremely difficult to fight an unconscious part of your brain with executive functions. I have almost 28 years sober and worked as a counselor, case manager, and social worker in mental health and addiction treatment, inpatient, outpatient, psycho-social, and medical settings. And I was an IV heroin addict. I am grateful every day I got out long before fentanyl.
Also, I completely and fully understand and endorse the dark humor. It's a requirement for survival in those settings.
I'm coming up on two years myself and I'm just a few months out from my recovery specialist certification. People really don't understand how hard it is to stop. I was on IV carafentanyl my last year before getting sober bc heroin and fentanyl wouldn't get me off sick anymore. Worst withdrawal I had ever experienced. Acute withdrawal lasted nearly nine weeks.
@jessicahay9305 You folks coming off of fentanyl and OMG carfentanil!!!!! are heroes. That detox seems like scaling Everest in flip flops, a tank top, and booty shorts to me. I'm so proud of you for making it through. Treasure your recovery, each and every day, and try to hold the memory of that pain in the forefront. We're programmed to forget pain and remember pleasure, which contributes to relapse. So remind yourself of that pain regularly, don't let it slip away. Congratulations! And thank you for including helping others as part of your journey. Your experience will inspire others and show that recovery is possible!
I was also an IV fentanyl and carfentanyl as well, I overdosed SO many times I can't even count them. Narcan saved my life an is an essential drug!!! If it wasn't freely available I would be dead, you have to keep addicts ALIVE for them to be able to get help. I was an addict for 2/3rds of my life and finally am happy to say I have 2.5yrs of sobriety!! That could not have happened if my life had not been saved countless times, I get that it can feel like you're beating a dead horse continuously saving someone's life for them to just keep using the drugs that put them in that situation but it is so important to do. My favorite thing to remind people is that it is NEVER too late to get sober, the only time that there is no hope left for a person is when they die. Anytime before that there is still a shred of hope, even if it doesn't seem like it. Proud of you for being 28yrs sober. You're an inspiration!! 🩷🩷🩷
@@Luna-Joy. I couldn't just like your reply, cuz I love it!❤️
as someone whos been in and out of the er for self harm, medical social workers are so understanding. one time my grandma called the police on me, and im autistic, and they physically grabbed me and men grabbing me is obviously traumatizing because im a 14 yo autistic bio female getting grabbed by 3 men for literally no idea what i did, i went non verbal and the medical social worker was so understanding and just sat there and gave me a piece of paper to write down my answers until my mom came from work.
We need to see the humor in healthcare, we’d be crying. I love my hospital humor. We do good stuff for people.
Perfect timing for this podcast. My mother in law agreed to go to a medically supervised rehab last night. It's pain med stuff. She has a pain pump in her back filled with Dilaudid, but is also given oral pain meds to help. She just finished a months worth of her medication of 70 pills in 5 days. Today, she said that she isn't ready to go into rehab because she has "too much laundry to do."
Addicts will find pretty much any excuse not to get clean. Getting clean is scary for a lot of people, especially if they've been addicted for a longer time. People are scared of the withdrawal. Others are afraid of the pain (especially if they have chronic pain), and some people are even afraid of what life will be like without their drug. Some people also don't like to be locked away from everything and everyone they know while in detox or rehab.
Changes in life are often hard, even if they are good changes in the long run. It isn't actually as scary as it seems once they are there, though.
Opiates increase pain, especially if a person has been on them for a while. She won't actually know where her actual pain level is until she's off the Opiates for at least 3 to 6 months. Opiates lower a persons pain tolerance, which makes them less able to deal with even regular amounts of pain. In the long run, Opiates make a persons pain worse.
It's hard for family to watch and deal with. A lot of people give up on the person before they are ready to seek help. I actually think forced committal for drug addicts should be a thing because a lot won't actually go back to drugs once they have gone through the process of getting clean... some will, though... but enough won't that it would be worth it. Most people are just scared of the detox process, but once they are clean, as long as they stay away from other people who are doing drugs, they'll stay clean. That really depends on how much of their life revolves around drugs as well, though. Usually, street addicts will have a harder time staying clean than someone addicted to doctor prescribed medications. That's because a street addict has to make far more changes in their life in order to stay clean, and those changes are harder to make... they'd lose most, if not all, of their "friends," and their life would be drastically different. Where a person who is addicted to doctor prescribed Opiates usually doesn't have to make as many changes in their life...
Wishing you the best, though.
I remember all the excuses, it's mental abuse first 😢they work on your self-esteem , then it's always your fault when they physically start. It took me 2 years to leave.
I hope things are better for you now.
Good for you. My ex was a cop, he knew where to hit and how to talk… Thank God I got away
@audreyannelanfranchi6642 happy that you were able to escape
@@TarsaMom-2 thanks, you too…. Everything that you described was spot on…. I was walking around with my head down, second guessing myself all the time!!!! He was too good at abuse. Years later, looking back, smh… I’m just so grateful to have gotten away…. If I had stayed, I probably wouldn’t be here right now . And for those that say, just leave!!! If only it was that easy… definitely starts with mental abuse, then physical…. I remember thinking, I hope that he just beats me and gets it over with, as opposed to the verbal abuse…. It’s crazy
I'm glad you got out. No one should have to go through the mental and physical torture these people inflicted on us. And it's not "easy" to leave. Unless you've done it yourself, don't lecture others. Just being there for them means a lot more than you can realize.
Hi Steve. I am a retired administrative secretary with a pysch tech background. I worked at my local hospital for twenty years, 12 of it in a combo department with Social Services. We had BSW, MSW, and LCSW. In addition, we had interns, including Phd Pysch interns. Because of my background in psych, I would occasionally back up the Trauma (ER) MSW. I've seen cowboys and girls gored by bulls, high school classmates strung out on drugs who wanted me to get them a fix, parents of friends who asked for me by name and wanted me to hold their hand and stay in the room with them because they were scared of dying before their family came in. I saw my own mother code and get worked on ( thank God she made it) and more. You have to remember its not about you --its about the other person, and they need some love right now.
God bless Jessica for the job she does. And Steve, thank you for making us laugh -- you know how much it's needed, and we love you for it.
I'm a retired hospital librarian. On our way to lunch we encountered a pregnant woman in the earlier stages of labour. Her husband was tweaking hard. Talking to himself, distracted by every piece of medical equipment in the hallway. The mother to be just didn't know what to do and broke down in tears asking us for help. We got her in touch with a social worker. Confidentiality being what it is I'll never know the outcome, but I was just thankful that there was someone who could help in that difficult situation.
Former school nurse.
Was injured by a student in my 40's
Haven't worked since.
My aunt was a school nurse for a few years. She said it was both the best and worst job she's ever had.
Last time I was a patient in an ER, the lady next to me somehow swallowed multiple sewing needles. How is that even possible?!
😮 for real ?? 😮 _ I guess she was hallucinating when she did that ?? Like thinking'' i hear God and he is asking me to do that '' or something ?? HOW is that even PHYSICALLY possible to do that 🤯😳😲😐
Domestic violence? Yeah, if someone asked me I denied it because the staff is required to report it. And then he's arrested. And THEN he's out of bail and I have no where else to go or hide, and my life and my family's lives are in danger. It takes a plan for a safe escape, and I had to set that up with the help of friends. Not the clinic staff that wanted to call the cops immediately. Now that I'm away and safe, and totally effed up mentally, I adore my Social Worker who comes to check in on me every couple weeks even though her relentless cheerfulness can be annoying. She is a constant, she always has my back.
I so appreciate your BAMF interviews. Thank you, Steve.
I understand the humor , it's away to cope . Because it gets so bad , so you find ways to process
Hello Steve and Jessica! Thank you for these stories and insights. I’m a retired respiratory therapist and have been witness to many of these stories in my career. The disadvantage of being a respiratory therapist however,( and I loved the job and everyone I worked with ), is that, at the end of my shift, I do not get to spend time with those with whom I’ve just been through the traumatic experiences. I have to leave with all this baggage, go back to my department and make report to the next shift. And no doubt there were at least several other therapists from other departments who also had some experiences to tell that also needed to decompress with those with whom they had gone through so much…. You get my point. Sometimes I’ve even done some amazing things that have really helped a patient but, because it was a desat’ing kid that I suctioned for example, ( all the nurses in the room were tied up in a procedure at another bed), and the parent sleeping next to her woke up and only saw the desat, made a huge fuss, blaming me for it…. Later my manager banned me from the pediatric ICU for the duration of that parent’s being there. No blame, but also no support or encouragement. So what I’m trying to say is that not being in a continuous connection with a team has really left gaps in my recovery from, learning from and growing into some aspects of my job that could have made me much more helpful and productive. Thank you for helping me now. I have been healing just by listening to your, ( our? ) stories.
having retired from an acute locked psych ward in a VA hospital....it was noticeable that the social workers who were women were messed with more than the males...(as in hands on) the ward was 99.9 % male patients. The male SW's were fairly large men....it did not go unnoticed by the medical teams.
Because most men well adult human males that attack people tend to be cowards. (Not meaning all men but just these sorry SOBs)
I went to the ER after burns from a house-fire. They said they have a social worker if I needed someone to talk to. I accepted. The social worker told me that they could probably find me some space at a local shelter in a few hours if I could wait a bit longer. I said, "Oh, no, see: I have full homeowners' insurance."
She blinked a couple times and asked, "So, why are you talking to me?"
"I, um, I've never set my house on fire before, and they asked if I wanted to talk to someone, so I said yes!"
"Oh, it's very simple, call your insurance company, and they handle everything. I can get you a free cab-ride home if you want."
"Oh, OK, thank you."
And she was correct. I appreciated her help.
Agree so much with everything this social worker said!
Dudes. I work as an OT in an acute secure mental health ward in Australia. We had an unwell patient on the ward who was admitted due to schizophrenia relapse secondary to meth use.
He had superhuman strength when he was brought in by cops and tore a Kevlar vest in half....
This is enough to put you off going to a hospital forever
As a retired EMT - we used narcan but with caution to protect ourselves from assault. Now that it’s free in some places, I got some for my grandson. He’s a trucker & the most likely person to find someone down in the parking areas or bathrooms. And I’ll add.. his father died of a fentanyl OD 3 years ago. His mom, my daughter was a coke & ETOH abuser until money ran out & she switched to adderal…or any kind of pill anyone was willing to give her. She’s down to 4 teeth , & is a total burnout but with moments of normalcy. I have waited for the knock on the door from the police.. & have since she was a teen. So does my grandson. As an emt, I was happier treating a schizophrenic than an addict. They need to take their meds … freedom from addiction means changing their whole life.
Great interview Steve! God Bless you Jessica, you are an amazing person. We can all see it in you. You've probably touched more lives in a positive way than you can count. Sending you Best Wishes and Love from Memphis, TN~
😂😅 The poor people at my hospital... They tried *so* hard to get me to admit that I was being abused.
I was paralyzed for awhile. (Guillain-Barre Syndrome) My husband and I were alone in my room and talking. I usually talk with my hands. So I started getting excited about something and for the first time in a *month,* my arm came up. And then immediately came down and smacked me in the face. I've always bruised like a peach, so I got a black eye. And I couldn’t move it again to show them, so everybody thought this man gave his paralyzed wife a black eye.
They wouldn’t let him be alone in the room with me until a couple days later, when I did it again while I was talking to a nurse.
My two fav nurses collab!! Can't wait to see the collab content!!!
Happy Social Worker month to my fellow SWs🎉
I work in CPEP and Mobile Crisis as a Peer Counselor in NYC. A lot of pts still use that K2. Some won’t take their medications or don’t even have a primary doctor.
The safe needles is harm reducing its part of treatment planning just without the SW.
We have several family members in health care in our family- Laughter is absolutely the best medicine- the stories they have shared- lol - Truth: they see the worst of the worst and deal with those situations in professional, empathetic, and educational ways… I believe EVERY profession, no matter what it is, has its own dark humor to help emotionally deal with the worst of the situations they are faced with on a day-to-day basis.
I don't think I've ever seen Nurse John in anything other than scrubs and a wig. I love these two and it makes me so happy that they're friends. 🥰
I'd love if you start asking each guest " if there is one unexplainable, "miracle" situation you've witnessed ?
The sad thing is with the guy going number two evs, housekeeping will clean that up not the nurses! So he just scr** over evs. Patients do this so much to get back at nurse for not listening but evs pays the price.
I have ms and my father has cancer. We have very dark humor because without laughing you can't survive.
You can only quit addiction if you are alive. ❤
I’m from long island and from the time I was 13 years old my community rec center wanted me to go and learn how give narcan and be cpr certified
I’m a crisis social worker…. Our median income with a Master is paid $55k.
We put up with tons of abuse… but we do clean it up…
Damn how fast are the cabs driving there?! 45mi 20min?! I don’t believe that, that would mean it takes under 2 minutes for a mile!
These are so good! Please keep doing them.
Hi! I'm an ER nurse for 17 years and travel nurse for 4 years. I live full time in an RV w my Travel Nurse partner. I'd love to plead the case of Travel Nurses everywhere. I know there are bs people and they don't contibute.... but I always try to be the exception.
I wonder where Jessica works? I was a mental health professional on Long Island for 34 years. I can so relate to what she says. I worked at Pilgrim Psych and she speaks the truth. The system went from limping along to a horror show for so many clients, all because of money.
Maybe one of these can be on the difficulties family caregivers experience?
This just made me realize the amount of Healthcare TH-cams I watch 😂
I have no idea how I got here, but I'm not complaining 😂😂
This woman is most definitely a badass MFKR!
Sometimes you keep it together with coffee, sarcasm and dark humour…yes, we have a laugh, but at the same time we deal with it.
And I agree with her about the right to be told the truth by doctors in end-of-life situations. Some people don't want to know, but those who do want, sometimes aren't told enough.
Thank you for addressing the abandonment issue.
It's so sad, and so common especially if we consider also the simple attempts at abandoning relatives (older, but not only) at the ER or in the wards during holidays or in the summer.
I have one which sticks to me to this day (sorry for the long comment).
Without going into much detail, I worked in a rehabilitation ward (post-OP, neurological, dementias). Major Italian city, big hospital.
A patient comes in, she's from Africa, brought to Italy by plane by family who say “they live in the city” (spoiler alert: you'll see), she speaks only some obscure dialect, relatives bring her in and help translate for her admission.
I say, that woman was NOT ok.
We had a total linguistic barrier and weren't even sure she understood our attempts at communicating, verbally or not.
Totally dependent in the ADL.
She had either mental health issues or early onset dementia, but boy, the most extreme things? Those you could write in your memoir?
Check - the climbing, jumping, biting, spitting, hitting, abrupt yelling and chanting in the dark in the middle of the night, hiding behind the door to jump scare, the poop throwing and, worse, hiding 😭 you had to check everywhere, in the dinner plates, on the ceiling, in your effing POCKETS.
When her time was up the doctors contacted family to arrange for discharge and discovered the relatives had GONE BACK TO AFRICA and weren't coming back for her!
I resigned over a MONTH after she came in (our standard hospitalizations lasted a couple weeks) and a month later ex-colleagues told me she still was there.
Same issue here with mental health patients and their families. So sad and you feel so powerless to help.
Thank you for these conversations, they are so interesting and make us feel seen and heard.
Narcan saves lives and I think everyone should carry it honestly. I had a friend who struggled bad over the years, it wasn't available for people to keep at home back then and I remember thinking "Man this would be so much better if we could have that here with us." when the medics used it on him. More than once, they only saved him because of how close he lived to the hospital and medic stations. He's sober now. We all are
OH MY GOD! THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Safe injection clinics actually relives taxpayer burdens, reduces disease transmission, and is beneficial to public health.
We laugh at all the crazy stuff because otherwise we'd cry or break down. It's a solid coping mechanism!
I’m following this Podcast now. ❤
Not gonna lie. I've been a med and psych social worker for 30 years, and i only do it for the money. I have permanent compassion fatigue and walk around saying I hate people. And I've turned into a psych pt myself. No matter where you work, the philosophy is to dump it on the SWer.
the good staff is trying to stay safe themselves and then the ones the bad ones are hanging back in the station area of the ER not doing anything
One of my dv gals got the wrong butter in the store, he dragged her out to a field and broke both legs. Winter Montana
She stayed in my shelter, came in crying saying….. I bought the butter I wanted.
when that happens and you are trying to help someone you are like wait a minute how did we go down the rabbit hole
Social worker/former medical social worker..hospitals and libraries are the two places where literally everyone is welcome. Leads to some challenging incidents.
I’ve had students throw tables at me back when I was a teacher. I’ve also been threatened at my current job. I work in mental health now.
I would love to share my stories! I work with low income individuals (18-64) with complex medical and behavioral needs! Today I’m a lead so half my time is devoted to supporting my care managers but man, I’ve hit so many walls trying to help our patients!
The fact you mention low income people is troubling me. As a nurse I do know how to deal with people who need help and support. I am troubled by the fact you are just saying low income and it should not even matter what the patient has in their bank account.
I love this so much
at first I was like "why is STEVEO posting about this?" then realized it was the Asian one the funny ass ER man.
Thanks for this, I’m an ED social worker as well 😍
They can agree to go & then sign themselves out AMA
Free Narcan is a thing in Australia. I was astounded to be given it a few years ago when I was addicted to Tramadol (but didn't know it - I'd been put on it for pain and told not to worry about addiction because I'd never be coming off it... took me a good year and a half) and that was enough for me to start to gradually wean myself off the stuff. For years, I'd been on the maximum dose, 400mg per day of fast release, and 400 of slow.
Last year, I broke my back in 5 places and got put on 50mg of slow release palexia morning and night with the same of the fast release. I've managed to stop the fast release, but just last week, a chemist stuck a box of Narcan in with my palexia! If 800mg per day of Tramadol didn't kill me, I'm pretty sure that 100 of palexia won't! I'll get off the stuff as soon as I can, but still , I'll find somebody who actually needs it and give it to them.
You should absolutely be able to laugh and have dark humor!! If you didn't you would literally go insane, you HAVE to be able to laugh and joke about some of this shit. I work as a tech at an emergency vet so i see a LOT of crazy shit, you just have to be able to say "i cant believe that actually just happened" or talk with your coworkers and laugh about insane owners youve had to deal with and the idiocy that comes with it. People who get angry with you for laughing will never understand the traumatic things you've seen and gone through. Also, i was an addict for 2/3rds of my life, the last 8yrs of that being an IV fent addict, i saw and dealt with a lor of traumatic shit during that time too and i absolutely make jokes about it now!! I have been sober for 2.5yrs and one of the things keeping me sober is joking about how absolutely terrible it all was. People need to fuck off when they tell people how to or how not to deal with THEIR trauma. Youre not being mean to your patients and you've dealt with some crazy shit, youre aloud to deal with and talk about it however you want!! LOVE THIS PODCAST, am waiting longingly for a new episode!!! ❤❤❤❤
In my state social workers take kickbacks not saying the good ones do but if that patient was abused at a home or by another social worker or guardian well they felt unsafe
It is not Jessica or the patient it is just the situation the patient was in Jessica did not make the patient feel unsafe but what someone else prior to her being there did
A great dispatch paramedic supervisor can give it their all angels on earth I appreciate the good nurses the social workers the doctors that care but you think what if later their health gives out or they get tired resign or walk out they have a right things got too bad but then with the Administrators making the most money it does not help the morale of good staff
Oh my gosh, Pica patients are the worst. We had people swallowing batteries, razor blades the entire TV remote trash just everything
Great podcast!
I admit i am the vomit and eye damage Nurse. That stuff is Cryptonite to me. I have clutched my teeth grinning comfortly to patients over vomit, but eye injuries.. I cave and run.
Laughter is used to relieve the stress.
I was a rebel teen in the '70's and I was bad. Teen runaway, sex, kidnapping minors. I'm 61 now and I'm still in therapy.
Harm reduction = keeping people alive so they can reach the point where they are ready for treatment.
Im a drug addict too and im so glad that where i live (Europe) we don’t have a issue that drugs get laced with fenny (not glad that in a drug addict of course)
You buy molly - you get molly, worst case its laced with speed
You buy heroin - you get heroin that is worst case laced with some inactive filler
It’s even worse now. It’s being made up of fent and xylazine. The xylazine is soo bad. It’s causing people to black in and out like they’re on benzos and do the fruit roll up into the ground even worse. If it was real heroin it would be better for the addicts, it’s also easier to come off of.
I think the laughing and coping is not unhealthy even though I’ve had therapist say that it because I’m not processing or dealing with what happened but what do you want me to do about it? I just laugh and move on. But miraculously, with all the s psych stations I have dealt with i 20 years. I have never been hit by a patient. I’ve grabbed to prevent them from hitting other people, and they sang to me for it and I’ve only been bit once. Also, by the grace of God, I did not get hepatitis from being bit so there’s that.
why did this series stop updating? and why is ep. 12 missing?
I won’t even start with my stories of running psych units, but I will tell you I used to remember my last tetanus shot by the name of the person who injured me and the date on the incident report.
Sorry, I can't get on board with this nomination, Steve. A social worker should not be saying that drug addicts "choose" to cope that way.
As the person who couldn't stop dry heaving...i am so sorry! (But it can be just as funny on our end cus usually when someone reacts to it it makes it worse)
there are frequent flyers I know the term a woman knocked on a door the west side of town the ambulance comes out picks her up takes her to the hospital next day downtown by the courthouse and the city hall talking to herself
People drop off their grandmas and never come back? Oh my God.
I disagree with not allowing the patient to decide the information. The patient decides. We should try to persuade, but never override.
lets make it clear there are some nurses some doctors some guardians and social workers that are angels like you two but then there are some that are not it is like with socialized healthcare 50/50 of the care you might or might not receive a woman when socialized healthcare came in and was in full use this nurse said she could not take the way patients were being treated anymore left and resigned and started making hat boxes
No addict wants to go down and get narcanned. It’s instant withdrawal.
i could never be a social worker. i'd be in jail for attempted murder all the time. "your honor, i'm sorry but you and i both know some people need to be taught a lesson"
I'm of the opinion that drugs should be legal. Being illegal hasn't made them disappear, and I think, if made legal, that the financial incentive would be gone. Just use funds from the drugs to make anti-drug campaigns.
Who did the choreography?
If someone ever grabs my hair like that, imma call it a legitimate defense and slap the world out of that patient 🤣
For context tho, I'm epileptic so I do instinctively protect myself when my head's in danger🤷♀️
I don’t think it’s about right or wrong, it’s about being human. Humans are addictive. Animals are addictive too. Once you place your judgment on it then it’s your problem. You’ve injected some thing into something that wasn’t there before. Your judgment.
Yeah, I know so many people who cleaned up eventually that would be dead or seriously I’ll without access to clean needles and narcan.
I’m the worst psych nurse. I literally validated my murder. Patient like you know what just had to be done. It’s all good. Forgive yourself move on.😂❤🎉
My daughter is one who falls into the psych social worker category, then fell into the DV and PREGNANT category and the social worlers were always amazing! They definitely had very tied hands much of the time but guess what, she did leave finally just before baby was born and has returned a time or two (more hospital social workers those times) but has stayed gone now 5mths! Still not dealing with the psych side right but she was able to place our grandson with us at delivery and he is thriving! And she left him so it does one day pay off! A shame we cant update them that they mattered!
Hey I say if laughing about some of these helps you get though it all then lough away.
on the Square in Belleville Illinois families f heroin victims stand out there trying to raise awareness to get legislation to keep opioids and Heroin out of our county these parents and family members take all weekend on their weekends off with signs dedicating themselves to this cause so another family does not have to go through what they did
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That’s the butchest outfit I’ve seen this year…Levi’s, belted. Budweiser shirt. Cowboy boots. Change those to wranglers and buy a ranch.
What do you call the person who graduated last in their medical school?
Doctor. 😕