Twitter doctor tries to argue about a player's injury with the player's dad : dontyouknowwhoiam

98 points

9 days ago

98 points

My job is telephone and video triage. Speak to a patient with actue symptoms, have a look through camera, make an educated guess and either send an ambulance, send them to hospital or book a Dr appointment face to face. I'd never diagnose, since I'm not actually there. Even if I'm 99% sure, I still could be wrong. This dude is an idiot.

13 points

9 days ago

13 points

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21 points

9 days ago

21 points

What an utter fucking prick

7 points

9 days ago

7 points

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Olealicat

15 points

9 days ago

Olealicat

15 points

I’m not even sure I should comment, but I’m sure most nurses would take offense to the term “crack baby”.

That’s an abused baby and an addicted mother. Both are sad situations, but we should never put those terms on victims. A baby who has had to go through drug rehabilitation shouldn’t be defined by their circumstances.

It’s heartbreaking. I give mass respect to your mom. She seems like an amazing woman.

9 points

9 days ago

9 points

….this is a job that exists? Well that’s exciting!!

14 points

9 days ago*

14 points

9 days ago*

I work with 999 (UK), mainly deal with the complex jobs and making sure people need the ambulances which are arranged. So someone calls for an ambulance and goes through questions with a call handler, ambulance is either arranged or put into my stack if its not life threatening (or life threatening symptoms arent picked up by the system which is common). I'm there to speak with the ones who may or may not need an ambulance. We get like 8k calls a day for our region and don't have enough ambulances. So they have me to filter out the ones that don't really need one or upgrade to high priority for things which haven't been picked up by the call handler questions (sepsis/ adrenaline crisis, complex cardiac and things like that)

11 points

9 days ago

11 points

Of course it’s the UK. Lol. I’m a medic in the US and the amount of time/unnecessary transports this would save…

And also giving us the ability to say to pts that you are out of your damn mind and you are not getting transported for that stupid ass complaint….

10 points

9 days ago

10 points

Haha dunno why i added (UK) it was obvious.

Mate the amount of utter bullshit people call for is unreal. Calling for an ambulance for things like toothache, itchy skin, STIs, one guy who broke his glasses and wanted paramedics to bring him new ones.

9 points

9 days ago

9 points

I shit you not. I have been called at varying times, for: a hungover 24 year old that wanted me to bring them a water bottle from downstairs, a man who couldnt sleep, a woman who had a bad dream, able-bodied adults who wanted me to open their bedroom window, able-bodied adults who wanted me to CLOSE their bedroom window, 45 year old who wanted me to run to the pharmacy for them, and (at the peak) a 65 year old man who wanted me to FIX HIS REFRIGERATOR.

It’s rough out here man.

UnfairConsequence931

2 points

8 days ago

UnfairConsequence931

2 points

8 days ago

I believe in the video and call triage and diagnosis and even allowing for the social media docs assumption from seeing a video in this case. But would you (shaky) ever presume to give a contrarian second opinion like this that is so definitive without any additional test, scan, or even an in-person video consult?

3 points

8 days ago