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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you watching The Pit at all?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Man, my wife and I both watch it.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Right, does she also work in an er?
Speaker 4 (00:08):
She's a nurse, but not in the R I gotcha?
Speaker 5 (00:10):
The Pit is what's his face from Noah Wiley from
Did I say that wrong?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Is it George Wiley?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
No? No, no, Noah Wiley.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
So that's his new show.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
So I haven't watched it yet, but I was reading
something about it, and the thing that I was reading
about got a big reaction from people that work in
the er in a very positive way. So I guess
there's And I don't know how far you and your
wife are into it, but they said in season one,
(00:42):
episode nine, isn't this the first season?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
In season one, episode nine, charge nurse Dana Evans emerges
with a bloody nose after being punched in the face
by a disgruntled patient. In the scene, a nearby medical
student looks on in shock. One of the nurses says,
happens all the time, got my cheek broken.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
We've all been assaulted.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
And then it goes on and talks about how the
nurses and doctors who actually work in ers said that
part of it they got right, like listen any any like,
if I watch WKRP in Cincinnati, I can pick up no,
but I can pick out all the things that they
got wrong.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
This is what you told for below deck, you said
to the bravery yesterday.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Oh yeah, so I could pick out things that aren't
real life, right, But dude, is it that bad in
a real er like? Do you guys get they said
between getting verbally like, everybody gets verbally assaulted, but getting
physically assaulted happens pretty regularly.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, I mean, verbally assaulted is just not a day
at work. Physically assaulted definitely happens. I actually know people
who have gotten their noses broken by patients swinging around,
especially patients who are there or like psychiatric mental health emergency.
That happens fairly regularly. But uh yeah, it it for
sure happens.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
What are you supposed to do when that happens.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
We have hossible security and they'll come deal with it.
But you know, you usually have other friends around and
they'll come help hold people down. And it's the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Can I ask you this like take away the I
shouldn't say take away.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I understand that's part of it.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
If somebody's you know, somebody's dealing with a mental health issue.
But do you ever get people that are just that
they they're pissed about the wait time, or like you
can't do something for them, or like something clerical.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I don't even know what it would be.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Insurance has got to be a big one where all
of a sudden they just haul off in cold cock.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I've never seen that happen, but people definitely get a
little verbally aggressive about the wait times, for sure. I've
been I've been yelled at about wait times, like I
can do anything about it.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Yeah, I mean that's that kind of part for the
course for an emergency room. You know you're gonna wait,
You're not gonna walk right in unless you're having a
heart attack.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Are you allowed to fight back?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, we have special training on how to defend ourselves.
So it took a little like twelve hour class when
you first start there on how to you know, do
different blocks and holds and all that kind of stuff.
So basically how to fight patients. But no, we are
not allowed to hit back or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Is that something that comes up in schooling or is
it your first day or first week on the job.
They're like by the way, you got to take this
twelve hour course on self defense.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's like a like a little like part of your orientation.
You take the class and it's basically like crisis prevention.
So the last bit of it, I mean, the first
whole part is like how to prevent all of that
from happening. But then the last few hours are like
if this happens, if the patient swings that you, if
a patient tries to grab you, here is how you
like defend yourself and block them. And we also get
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teaching like you know, doctors nurse is usually where stethoscopes
around their necks and not to have that because that's
a good spot for them to just grab.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Oh, absolutely absolutely and note to self.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But the other thing, and you may know the answer
to this.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
They were talking to another er, I believe it was
an er nurse who said that it is not uncommon
for you to see er nurses with bruised wrists from
patients grabbing their wrists.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I haven't seen that, but that was actually one of
the things that they teach if a patient grabs you
by the wrist, how to do a little twist of
your arm and like disengage the patient.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I give you credit. I would want to fight back.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, and can the heat of the moment, you don't
really think. I mean you might think about that, but
it's mostly just getting out. We're taught never to, you know,
have a patient that's in a state like that between
us and the door of the rooms that we can
get out if it's going to be a hot situation.
To make sure that you have other nurses, doctor security already,
just like hanging outside the room. So there's a lot
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of things that we can do to prevent it. But
yet assaults definitely happened.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I can't he thank you, sir, thank you.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
And I can't remember if if if in the article
they talk about it happening on what's the other medical
show that's doing well, Pulse.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It's called Pulse.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Yeah, I don't know that one.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
What Yeah, Pulse.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
The where like somebody who works in the er shoves uh,
like the parent of a kid patient and they're like,
you can't, you can't put your hands on somebody.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
And that was just they were having a conflict about something.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yes, I don't know some with the kid. I have
no idea the but it was the same thing. What's wrong?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
What did you just look at? I was imagining what
I would do if someone grab my wrist. Grab my wrist,
see if you can twist out of it, fall.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
Down golf see. See you you were very unassuming. I
was your mistake. You thought you were the aggressor. AH
tables turned Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Hi, Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Hey? My name Dan Andrew.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
I'm a er doctor.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Do you see this crap going on all the time?
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Yeah, it definitely happens pretty frequently. The thing to remember
what the pit is, just like you were saying with
your KRP, is that like there's gonna be some inaccuracies
or what they'll do is they make that that was
a shift from health right in fifteen hours. That is
not probably ever what somebody's gonna experience in one single day,
but like everything within that day is something that actually happens.
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For sure.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Is this number right, I can't remember the agency, sixty
percent of all er nurses and doctors will be assaulted.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, for sure, it happens very frequently.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
And uh, like the last color said, a lot of times,
it's people with behavioral issues more than anything. I once
sus something you actually get a chunk of their skin
on their chest, actually bitten offlay a patient.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
So it definitely happens.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
What's the what's the worst that happened to you?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I mostly just some shoving and you know, compatitations.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I've never had any an, you know, major injuries.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I can't even imagine and listen.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I feel like I've whether it's me or or the boys,
I feel like I've spent a decent amount of time
in the er. The I can't number one, I've I've
never seen anything, thank god, But I can't imagine and listen.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Is it frustrating at time? Sure it can be, Hey,
hold on.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
One second, but I've never even raised my voice at
somebody in there.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Now, I remember, what are you gonna what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Like, It's not like they would like, well, let's stall
segel a friend.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
And by the way, the pit sounds like it's a
a must watch for those in the medical field, like
two for two with people who were just calling because
they work in the hours and oh they're also watching it, right,
But we had a friend who was telling us that
their issue always is a lack of understanding with the
swings of emotions for the staff going from patient to
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patient and what they're dealing with, and the lack of
awareness when it comes to somebody who may not have
a very very urgent emergency. So it's like they walk
in maybe having just helped a gunshot victim and possibly
lost them, and now they're over helping you and there's
zero regard for what they're just coming from.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Yeah, no, I mean that's why. I mean, I don't
know what the next phone caller is going to be.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Kristen, do your jobs Bill's version?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
No, you know what I mean, Like the person on
the hole doesn't know what I just dealt with, but
I guess they they can hear it on hold.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Well whatever, Hi, Ellie in the morning, the violence is
just a whole other level.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Hey is this me?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (09:06):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Who's this?
Speaker 11 (09:08):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
This is Jamie.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yes, Jamie. Do you work in an er?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
No, but my wife has worked in the er her
whole career.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I think she's on the other line.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Are you there, Shanna?
Speaker 12 (09:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (09:20):
There, you talk to her.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
You didn't see that coming, now, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well I didn't. That's that's very good. Uh, Any Shanna?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Are you there?
Speaker 13 (09:27):
I am there?
Speaker 12 (09:28):
He walked me up for this.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh very good.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
What did you shift in?
Speaker 12 (09:32):
Yeah, so, yes, I've worked in the ear my whole
entire life, and I would say sixty it's probably higher
than that.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Wait, it's higher than sixty percent.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
So seventy five percent, three out of four nurses and
doctors will be assaulted at work.
Speaker 12 (09:53):
I would say, yes, oh my, so my, But one
of my really, really, really good friends was actually just
assaulted last week. The patient out of nowhere punched her
in the face and he ended up with a head bleed.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
What did the And I realized you said out of nowhere?
Like was the was was your friend like assisting them?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (10:21):
She was the charge nurse.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Okay, you can't just use terms that. I don't know
what a charge nurse is.
Speaker 12 (10:29):
Okay. So the patient was in the er and he
was was, you know, trying to leave, but he couldn't
leave yet, and so she was just like, hey, you know,
you want to go back to your room, and you
know things happened.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Oh wow, that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
And is she she's okay or he's okay?
Speaker 12 (10:54):
I mean, I don't know how you really ever recover
from that, but she is, uh, physically okay. Right now.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Have you have you ever been physically assaulted at work.
Speaker 12 (11:06):
I've been grabbed, I've been hit, I've been threatened that
they're gonna kill me. I've been called every name in
the book.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah, I was gonna ask I guarantee you've been called names.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
Oh gosh, ya, that's a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
How bad?
Speaker 13 (11:25):
How bad?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Like are they are they sea bombing you?
Speaker 12 (11:31):
No, it's really bitch?
Speaker 14 (11:33):
Oh okay, all right, well that's bad. Yeah, god, come on,
all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Thank you for waking up for us.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
That that was very I literally just got off at
like seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Awesome, Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Thank you from Lava. I knew of a doctor that
carried knives and did pull one on a violent patient
and then was fired paging doctor Warren.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
No, but you know what, there is a very natural reaction,
Like I used to say this to I used to
say this.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
To the boys all the time.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
If you get hit in the face, it is there
is a very very.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Natural reaction to just hit back.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Getting hit in the face is different than getting punched
in the stomach or getting like even getting punched in
the balls. Getting hit in the face elicits such a
reaction that you don't even have time to think.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah, liten moments ago, you grabbed my wrist and I
knocked you outs.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
No, but you know what I mean, Like, it's one thing.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
If I just started pushing your your arm or like
pushing you in the chest, that's one thing. You you
pop someone in the face, even if you're not punching them,
but you get your hand and just push them on
the cheek. You get your hands in someone's face, there's
not a lot of thought that's going on.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You're going to hit somebody.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Now, it's a good thing you didn't hit me in
the face first, because you would have broken my glasses
and then they wouldn't have been able to see.
Speaker 12 (13:09):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
But you know, so I used to tell the boys
all the time, just.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Know, like if you start getting into it with somebody
the second you touch their face, you better be ready
to go and vice versa. At some point, somebody's gonna
touch you in the face in an aggressive manner and
you're going to end up in a fight.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So if I were an er nurse and like the
patients lay in there right and I'm trying to.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Do something, if I was leaned over doing something, and
they took their hand and pushed my face. I feel
like my reaction, and I haven't taken that twelve hour course.
My reaction, I feel like would be I'm gonna pummel the.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
S out of you. Yeah, but remember in the case
Lava was talking about there were weapons.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Okay, yeah, maybe I'm not pulling a knife, but I
got scalpels. I mean, think about everything that you have
weapons already. Yes, I also and I go back to it.
The guy who said about how you have to be
careful about stethoscopes.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, never crossed my mind. Never crossed my mind.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I feel like if I was in the er and
someone was attending to me without a stethoscope, I question
their credentials. Well you're not even really a doctor, are you?
Where's the mirror on your head?
Speaker 13 (14:21):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yellie at the morning?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Hey does this mean?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (14:25):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Who's this? Hey?
Speaker 14 (14:27):
This is Glenn.
Speaker 11 (14:28):
How you doing?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I'm doing great? What can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So I was coming out of the er one time
and I had surgery and it was completely I came
out too soon in the anesthesia, started flailing around, grabbing nurses.
Next thing I know, I wake up again, and I'm
strapped down to the gurney, my hands in leather band,
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leather bondages and everything. So the pain that I was
in out of surgery was it scruciating and I could
not believe what was going on. I was confused. I was
grabbing nurses and so that was.
Speaker 11 (15:09):
Then later on, when I wake up a third time,
I didn't have anything strapping me down. I look at
my wife and she's like, what's going on? I said,
they had.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Me strapped down, and then the nurses come in and
they denied the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh see, I you know what.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I I don't like that they denied it because my
my first thing was is like if you came out
too quick and you were still loopy, it wasn't like
you were going after them because you were mad, or
you felt like they were dragging their feet or they
were doing something like that that upset you. You had
no idea what was going on, Like, I bet that happens.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
All the time.
Speaker 11 (15:44):
Yeah, I had no idea, and the pain was out
the roof.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
But why would they say that it didn't happen like
that part? I know, maybe it didn't. Maybe you were
just so cuckoo that you thought it happened.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Well, I know for sure it happened. That part I'm
confident in.
Speaker 11 (16:02):
But this hospital I'm never going back to anyway, so
I'm not going there to ask why they denied it.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I will say this, the the e R that I
that that is close to my Virginia Hospital Center, they're awesome.
Like I've never I've never had a problem there. There's
never been there's never been an issue like. That's where
I went for my broken.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Ankle last year.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
They were awesome.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
You should probably you could probably argue that they shouldn't
let me drive home.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Yeah, but you were also pretty adamant, weren't you.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Well, I'm grown ass man, exactly. I was like here
with a broken ankle.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
That's the attitude.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
When you told the story. Didn't they misdiagnose you when? Yeah?
Because they didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
H Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Well they thought it was sprained, but it was yeah, okayfinitely.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
That is true. It would go back and fight him
over that, Oh I wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
No, no, but you know what they I mean the time,
it was fine, and then when the woman called me
the next day, it was like we went back over things.
And it turns out that you broke your ankle's broken.
I didn't even get mad. I just chalked it up
to Okay, well, whoever, they just missed it.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I'm in a different state. Yes, I'm in Philly. I'm
in Philly.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
So like when you said, whatever you do, don't take
off that wrap, I took that off five hours ago
when I left my house drive. Whoops, I totally forgot
that was misdiagnosed. But my kids have been there for
breaking everything. Yeah, and I've never had a problem there.
They're very friendly, never a long way, but I'm sure
I always go in clutching my heart.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Though. If you heard from someone who works there, they
would have plenty of stories.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Oh I bet, Oh I.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Bet someone said that they had a cousin. This is
from who was this from Blue Sky? It's Bees says
cousin was a nurse for fifty years. Fifty years, so
many stories, all assault, but they brushed it off because
it's just becomes part of the job. It shouldn't be
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so people luting this show for being a really good
representation of what it's like to work in this.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Role that they just went to that specific part.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Okay, So I don't know if they look at well
like that one guy said, isn't isn't isn't it's twenty.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Four but in an er right hour by hour?
Speaker 10 (18:19):
Right?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Yeah, and so like that that one doctor said, it's
a fifteen hour shift that you'll never have. So maybe
they don't laud it for that, but maybe And again
it was just this specific part where everybody where like there.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Was a like a a resident I don't know what.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Everybody's job is, or medical student where they were floored
that a that a er nurse or doctor got hit
and the er nurse or doctor was like, no, that
goes on all the time, like that's regular. That's the
part that they're lauding and saying, that's the part.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
That's real, isn't it right?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yeah, It's like talking to Steve about The Bear.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
A similarly named programs.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's like, yeah, like sometimes like some of the stuff
they get right.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
At Steve said it was probably one of the most
accurate representations of what it's like to.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Work in the kitchen. That is true, but it's not
all accurate.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Well, it's a TV show.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It's like w k r P at the end, A
lot of that is not accurate.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Could your example be any older.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Yeah, what's a modern days? No other modern day one?
Though it's never saw it at least it's newer.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You never saw because Joey and Jesse did a shift
in Full House. That's the second full House reference today.
But they but that would be more current. But you
know what, the you know what we've just learned.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
What there's a need.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
There's a a radio station focused drama on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Well it doesn't even have to be a drama, could
be a comedy.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
But there's a there's a radio focused desert for radio
themed TV shows.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I'm gonna I'm gonna write own treatment.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Maybe they reboot what was the Christian Slater one? He
had to learn from you?
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Oh, he came into Pirate, trump up the volume, thank you.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
But that was a movie.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Series, right, well, he brought flowers in on the last day.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
That was? What was the other? What was the Fisher King?
What's the other one?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
That was with Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams And Jeff
Bridges came to Pirate to study radio. I would pick
him up from the hotel on the way in. He
got to ride in the jeep line for it. With
a slashed roof from a night at Gazaaris.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Hi Elliot the morning, Hey Elliott, what's going on?
Speaker 12 (20:37):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Who's this?
Speaker 13 (20:39):
This is your nursing son from Australia. I just came
back from that six month trip in Central Europe.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right all night? Hey are you a Are you an
ear nurse or doctor?
Speaker 13 (20:50):
I'm an e R nurse and I got a thousand
times echo what Taylor said.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Worst part of the job.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
You can't cure stupid.
Speaker 12 (21:00):
My god.
Speaker 13 (21:01):
These people come in they're like, I think I have
a cough and you're like, f off, dude, like come
on and like So the second hardest part of the
job is one, uh, being able to switch between have
an empathy for these people because you really do feel
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for them, and then having to switch milliseconds later to
be in a cast iron bee because you just.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
I mean, because you can't have empathy for everybody or
you're going to cry yourself to sleep at night.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
But you know what that kind of goes to a
little bit of like what Tyler was saying is that
when that doctor comes into do you, you don't know what
their previous patient was, so you don't know what they're
going through.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
And then the other thing and I can't with Somewhere
in the article and I think it got pointed.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I think they were talking about the show where they
were like, you have to remember it doesn't it's not
justifying the the the assaults right at all. It's just
saying people when they're in the emergency room, it is
probably the worst moment of their week, year, month, whatever
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it is.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
So they're wrong.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Also, so it's possible you can have two big raw
butts in there who are going to go after each other.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
No, I'm being serious, oh one hundred.
Speaker 13 (22:21):
Percent, and you have to have empathy for them, and
then turn around and be like, get the s out
of my clinic.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
You're wasting my time.
Speaker 13 (22:31):
Because it's and then and then go right back to
putting a smile on your face and saying, hey, five
year old, you have internal bleeding. But here's some crams
and we're gonna do everything we can.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yeah, see I can.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So's I couldn't do it.
Speaker 13 (22:45):
Is a tall And the the abuse I've been uh so,
I you know, lived in Australia. They dropped the sea
bombs for Brexfast, so I've been called.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Every name in the book and some times they drop
the sea bottom to be like you're a top three
mass I love you?
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Oh so almost complimentary, right sometimes after a good show.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I say that to Diane.
Speaker 10 (23:09):
Exactly, yeah, and they mean it like they they yeah,
uh huh.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Have you ever been have you ever been grabbed?
Speaker 13 (23:20):
Oh? I'm one of the nurses that does not like
wearing scrubs, so they allow you to wear a knee
length skirt and that, and I'm I'm five ten and
I got a hell of a figure, so the like
I would come home with bruises on my ass and
not just from one patient.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Have you ever seen a nurse in the skirt?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Hey, hey, tall one, can you lower my band?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I'd like to pink a view maybe like in the fifties.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Yeah, when they wore the white hat.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Wait, so you wear a skirt.
Speaker 13 (23:50):
Yeah, I wear a black skirt and black tights.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
I don't.
Speaker 13 (23:53):
I don't like tants, man.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I don't like tants either, but I don't.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I don't know that I've ever seen that great a
flight attendant.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Wait a minute, so wait, wait, when you say you've
got bruises on your tushy, do you mean like from guys,
like from from guys groping your ass.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Oh yeah, no, And it's guys that you wouldn't.
Speaker 13 (24:23):
Even think of, like you go into the room. Actually
one guy was a patient special, which means one patient,
one nurse, and that's with patients that have dementia, and
they're with themselves so.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
They don't get confused. It's like the same person goes.
Speaker 13 (24:41):
Don't get confused. There's sundowners. They stand up in the
middle of the night and just say I have to
get home, and you worry about them standing up too fast,
getting hypotensive and then collapsing. But there's no need to
restrain them. So you just have one nurse in the
room to kind of monitor them to make sure that
if they do wake up overnight that I'm there to
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protect them.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Sure, but that's who's grabbing your ass.
Speaker 13 (25:10):
Yeah, I would do their vitals. I'm leaning over their chests,
they're they're reaching up. They're trying to unblutten my bow
with one hand and then reaching around and just just
lifting it up.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Like, uh, by the way, can I say this? Can
I say this? This is the and I don't mean this.
Take this for what it's worth, right, is you may
not remember how to stand up, You may not remember
the two different nurses coming in, But god damn, I
remember how to undo a bra with one hand.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I don't blame them.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
To be honest, If I were seventy years old and
I were a dude and like a thirty year old
nurse comes in wearing a shirt, I'm probably fake to
mention just so I here.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I mean, we're getting like a man.
Speaker 11 (26:05):
That's right.
Speaker 13 (26:05):
What's I mean, what's gonna happen to him? Nothing? They're
not gonna get punished for it.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Okay, So other than the sundowners, which that's a term
I've never heard. What is the But like, so you've
been grabbed and pinched and stuff, but nobody nobody's like
hauled off and punched you.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (26:23):
I've gotten pinched, I've gotten bitten, gotten slapped in an
aggressive manner, being called every word under the sun that
you can think of.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Uh, I give you credit.
Speaker 13 (26:37):
I've gotten my hair pulled out. I had a few
bald patches for a while when I worked in the
overnight psych unit. Oh my god, wow, yeah see that.
But that the bruises, heel bites, heel, hair grows back.
The worst thing that happened.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Was ma'am ma'am, we can't, we can't.
Speaker 13 (27:01):
For the race, alright, he was, he was playing a
little five on one, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
All right, very good, thank you, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
But you know what I mean, thank God.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
No, not that it's going on, but that they not
everybody quite oh not the masturbation, the no no, but
but thank god. I don't want to say they put
up with it, because that sounds wrong to say.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
But that they stick with the job.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
They are.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Their desire to help is more than their desire to abandon.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
And I did try to find an image of the
last guys she talked about of the nurse skirt, but
all the results were Halloween costumes. Nurse Yeah.
Are you watching The Pit at all?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Man, my wife and I both watch it.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Right, does she also work in an er?
Speaker 4 (00:08):
She's a nurse, but not in the R I gotcha?
Speaker 5 (00:10):
The Pit is what's his face from Noah Wiley from
Did I say that wrong?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Is it George Wiley?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
No? No, no, Noah Wiley.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
So that's his new show.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
So I haven't watched it yet, but I was reading
something about it, and the thing that I was reading
about got a big reaction from people that work in
the er in a very positive way. So I guess
there's And I don't know how far you and your
wife are into it, but they said in season one,
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episode nine, isn't this the first season?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
In season one, episode nine, charge nurse Dana Evans emerges
with a bloody nose after being punched in the face
by a disgruntled patient. In the scene, a nearby medical
student looks on in shock. One of the nurses says,
happens all the time, got my cheek broken.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
We've all been assaulted.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
And then it goes on and talks about how the
nurses and doctors who actually work in ers said that
part of it they got right, like listen any any like,
if I watch WKRP in Cincinnati, I can pick up no,
but I can pick out all the things that they
got wrong.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
This is what you told for below deck, you said
to the bravery yesterday.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Oh yeah, so I could pick out things that aren't
real life, right, But dude, is it that bad in
a real er like? Do you guys get they said
between getting verbally like, everybody gets verbally assaulted, but getting
physically assaulted happens pretty regularly.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, I mean, verbally assaulted is just not a day
at work. Physically assaulted definitely happens. I actually know people
who have gotten their noses broken by patients swinging around,
especially patients who are there or like psychiatric mental health emergency.
That happens fairly regularly. But uh yeah, it it for
sure happens.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
What are you supposed to do when that happens.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
We have hossible security and they'll come deal with it.
But you know, you usually have other friends around and
they'll come help hold people down. And it's the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Can I ask you this like take away the I
shouldn't say take away.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I understand that's part of it.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
If somebody's you know, somebody's dealing with a mental health issue.
But do you ever get people that are just that
they they're pissed about the wait time, or like you
can't do something for them, or like something clerical.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I don't even know what it would be.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Insurance has got to be a big one where all
of a sudden they just haul off in cold cock.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I've never seen that happen, but people definitely get a
little verbally aggressive about the wait times, for sure. I've
been I've been yelled at about wait times, like I
can do anything about it.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Yeah, I mean that's that kind of part for the
course for an emergency room. You know you're gonna wait,
You're not gonna walk right in unless you're having a
heart attack.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Are you allowed to fight back?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, we have special training on how to defend ourselves.
So it took a little like twelve hour class when
you first start there on how to you know, do
different blocks and holds and all that kind of stuff.
So basically how to fight patients. But no, we are
not allowed to hit back or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Is that something that comes up in schooling or is
it your first day or first week on the job.
They're like by the way, you got to take this
twelve hour course on self defense.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's like a like a little like part of your orientation.
You take the class and it's basically like crisis prevention.
So the last bit of it, I mean, the first
whole part is like how to prevent all of that
from happening. But then the last few hours are like
if this happens, if the patient swings that you, if
a patient tries to grab you, here is how you
like defend yourself and block them. And we also get
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teaching like you know, doctors nurse is usually where stethoscopes
around their necks and not to have that because that's
a good spot for them to just grab.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Oh, absolutely absolutely and note to self.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But the other thing, and you may know the answer
to this.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
They were talking to another er, I believe it was
an er nurse who said that it is not uncommon
for you to see er nurses with bruised wrists from
patients grabbing their wrists.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I haven't seen that, but that was actually one of
the things that they teach if a patient grabs you
by the wrist, how to do a little twist of
your arm and like disengage the patient.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I give you credit. I would want to fight back.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, and can the heat of the moment, you don't
really think. I mean you might think about that, but
it's mostly just getting out. We're taught never to, you know,
have a patient that's in a state like that between
us and the door of the rooms that we can
get out if it's going to be a hot situation.
To make sure that you have other nurses, doctor security already,
just like hanging outside the room. So there's a lot
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of things that we can do to prevent it. But
yet assaults definitely happened.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I can't he thank you, sir, thank you.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
And I can't remember if if if in the article
they talk about it happening on what's the other medical
show that's doing well, Pulse.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It's called Pulse.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Yeah, I don't know that one.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
What Yeah, Pulse.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
The where like somebody who works in the er shoves uh,
like the parent of a kid patient and they're like,
you can't, you can't put your hands on somebody.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
And that was just they were having a conflict about something.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yes, I don't know some with the kid. I have
no idea the but it was the same thing. What's wrong?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
What did you just look at? I was imagining what
I would do if someone grab my wrist. Grab my wrist,
see if you can twist out of it, fall.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
Down golf see. See you you were very unassuming. I
was your mistake. You thought you were the aggressor. AH
tables turned Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Hi, Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Hey? My name Dan Andrew.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
I'm a er doctor.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Do you see this crap going on all the time?
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Yeah, it definitely happens pretty frequently. The thing to remember
what the pit is, just like you were saying with
your KRP, is that like there's gonna be some inaccuracies
or what they'll do is they make that that was
a shift from health right in fifteen hours. That is
not probably ever what somebody's gonna experience in one single day,
but like everything within that day is something that actually happens.
(06:47):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Is this number right, I can't remember the agency, sixty
percent of all er nurses and doctors will be assaulted.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, for sure, it happens very frequently.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
And uh, like the last color said, a lot of times,
it's people with behavioral issues more than anything. I once
sus something you actually get a chunk of their skin
on their chest, actually bitten offlay a patient.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
So it definitely happens.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
What's the what's the worst that happened to you?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I mostly just some shoving and you know, compatitations.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I've never had any an, you know, major injuries.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I can't even imagine and listen.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I feel like I've whether it's me or or the boys,
I feel like I've spent a decent amount of time
in the er. The I can't number one, I've I've
never seen anything, thank god, But I can't imagine and listen.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Is it frustrating at time? Sure it can be, Hey,
hold on.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
One second, but I've never even raised my voice at
somebody in there.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Now, I remember, what are you gonna what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Like, It's not like they would like, well, let's stall
segel a friend.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
And by the way, the pit sounds like it's a
a must watch for those in the medical field, like
two for two with people who were just calling because
they work in the hours and oh they're also watching it, right,
But we had a friend who was telling us that
their issue always is a lack of understanding with the
swings of emotions for the staff going from patient to
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patient and what they're dealing with, and the lack of
awareness when it comes to somebody who may not have
a very very urgent emergency. So it's like they walk
in maybe having just helped a gunshot victim and possibly
lost them, and now they're over helping you and there's
zero regard for what they're just coming from.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Yeah, no, I mean that's why. I mean, I don't
know what the next phone caller is going to be.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Kristen, do your jobs Bill's version?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
No, you know what I mean, Like the person on
the hole doesn't know what I just dealt with, but
I guess they they can hear it on hold.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Well whatever, Hi, Ellie in the morning, the violence is
just a whole other level.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Hey is this me?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (09:06):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Who's this?
Speaker 11 (09:08):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
This is Jamie.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yes, Jamie. Do you work in an er?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
No, but my wife has worked in the er her
whole career.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I think she's on the other line.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Are you there, Shanna?
Speaker 12 (09:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (09:20):
There, you talk to her.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
You didn't see that coming, now, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well I didn't. That's that's very good. Uh, Any Shanna?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Are you there?
Speaker 13 (09:27):
I am there?
Speaker 12 (09:28):
He walked me up for this.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh very good.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
What did you shift in?
Speaker 12 (09:32):
Yeah, so, yes, I've worked in the ear my whole
entire life, and I would say sixty it's probably higher
than that.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Wait, it's higher than sixty percent.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
So seventy five percent, three out of four nurses and
doctors will be assaulted at work.
Speaker 12 (09:53):
I would say, yes, oh my, so my, But one
of my really, really, really good friends was actually just
assaulted last week. The patient out of nowhere punched her
in the face and he ended up with a head bleed.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
What did the And I realized you said out of nowhere?
Like was the was was your friend like assisting them?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (10:21):
She was the charge nurse.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Okay, you can't just use terms that. I don't know
what a charge nurse is.
Speaker 12 (10:29):
Okay. So the patient was in the er and he
was was, you know, trying to leave, but he couldn't
leave yet, and so she was just like, hey, you know,
you want to go back to your room, and you
know things happened.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Oh wow, that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
And is she she's okay or he's okay?
Speaker 12 (10:54):
I mean, I don't know how you really ever recover
from that, but she is, uh, physically okay. Right now.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Have you have you ever been physically assaulted at work.
Speaker 12 (11:06):
I've been grabbed, I've been hit, I've been threatened that
they're gonna kill me. I've been called every name in
the book.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah, I was gonna ask I guarantee you've been called names.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
Oh gosh, ya, that's a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
How bad?
Speaker 13 (11:25):
How bad?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Like are they are they sea bombing you?
Speaker 12 (11:31):
No, it's really bitch?
Speaker 14 (11:33):
Oh okay, all right, well that's bad. Yeah, god, come on,
all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Thank you for waking up for us.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
That that was very I literally just got off at
like seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Awesome, Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Thank you from Lava. I knew of a doctor that
carried knives and did pull one on a violent patient
and then was fired paging doctor Warren.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
No, but you know what, there is a very natural reaction,
Like I used to say this to I used to
say this.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
To the boys all the time.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
If you get hit in the face, it is there
is a very very.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Natural reaction to just hit back.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Getting hit in the face is different than getting punched
in the stomach or getting like even getting punched in
the balls. Getting hit in the face elicits such a
reaction that you don't even have time to think.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah, liten moments ago, you grabbed my wrist and I
knocked you outs.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
No, but you know what I mean, Like, it's one thing.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
If I just started pushing your your arm or like
pushing you in the chest, that's one thing. You you
pop someone in the face, even if you're not punching them,
but you get your hand and just push them on
the cheek. You get your hands in someone's face, there's
not a lot of thought that's going on.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You're going to hit somebody.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Now, it's a good thing you didn't hit me in
the face first, because you would have broken my glasses
and then they wouldn't have been able to see.
Speaker 12 (13:09):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
But you know, so I used to tell the boys
all the time, just.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Know, like if you start getting into it with somebody
the second you touch their face, you better be ready
to go and vice versa. At some point, somebody's gonna
touch you in the face in an aggressive manner and
you're going to end up in a fight.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
So if I were an er nurse and like the
patients lay in there right and I'm trying to.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Do something, if I was leaned over doing something, and
they took their hand and pushed my face. I feel
like my reaction, and I haven't taken that twelve hour course.
My reaction, I feel like would be I'm gonna pummel the.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
S out of you. Yeah, but remember in the case
Lava was talking about there were weapons.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Okay, yeah, maybe I'm not pulling a knife, but I
got scalpels. I mean, think about everything that you have
weapons already. Yes, I also and I go back to it.
The guy who said about how you have to be
careful about stethoscopes.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, never crossed my mind. Never crossed my mind.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I feel like if I was in the er and
someone was attending to me without a stethoscope, I question
their credentials. Well you're not even really a doctor, are you?
Where's the mirror on your head?
Speaker 13 (14:21):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yellie at the morning?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Hey does this mean?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (14:25):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Who's this? Hey?
Speaker 14 (14:27):
This is Glenn.
Speaker 11 (14:28):
How you doing?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I'm doing great? What can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So I was coming out of the er one time
and I had surgery and it was completely I came
out too soon in the anesthesia, started flailing around, grabbing nurses.
Next thing I know, I wake up again, and I'm
strapped down to the gurney, my hands in leather band,
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leather bondages and everything. So the pain that I was
in out of surgery was it scruciating and I could
not believe what was going on. I was confused. I was
grabbing nurses and so that was.
Speaker 11 (15:09):
Then later on, when I wake up a third time,
I didn't have anything strapping me down. I look at
my wife and she's like, what's going on? I said,
they had.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Me strapped down, and then the nurses come in and
they denied the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh see, I you know what.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I I don't like that they denied it because my
my first thing was is like if you came out
too quick and you were still loopy, it wasn't like
you were going after them because you were mad, or
you felt like they were dragging their feet or they
were doing something like that that upset you. You had
no idea what was going on, Like, I bet that happens.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
All the time.
Speaker 11 (15:44):
Yeah, I had no idea, and the pain was out
the roof.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
But why would they say that it didn't happen like
that part? I know, maybe it didn't. Maybe you were
just so cuckoo that you thought it happened.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Well, I know for sure it happened. That part I'm
confident in.
Speaker 11 (16:02):
But this hospital I'm never going back to anyway, so
I'm not going there to ask why they denied it.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I will say this, the the e R that I
that that is close to my Virginia Hospital Center, they're awesome.
Like I've never I've never had a problem there. There's
never been there's never been an issue like. That's where
I went for my broken.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Ankle last year.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
They were awesome.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
You should probably you could probably argue that they shouldn't
let me drive home.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Yeah, but you were also pretty adamant, weren't you.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Well, I'm grown ass man, exactly. I was like here
with a broken ankle.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
That's the attitude.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
When you told the story. Didn't they misdiagnose you when? Yeah?
Because they didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
H Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Well they thought it was sprained, but it was yeah, okayfinitely.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
That is true. It would go back and fight him
over that, Oh I wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
No, no, but you know what they I mean the time,
it was fine, and then when the woman called me
the next day, it was like we went back over things.
And it turns out that you broke your ankle's broken.
I didn't even get mad. I just chalked it up
to Okay, well, whoever, they just missed it.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I'm in a different state. Yes, I'm in Philly. I'm
in Philly.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
So like when you said, whatever you do, don't take
off that wrap, I took that off five hours ago
when I left my house drive. Whoops, I totally forgot
that was misdiagnosed. But my kids have been there for
breaking everything. Yeah, and I've never had a problem there.
They're very friendly, never a long way, but I'm sure
I always go in clutching my heart.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Though. If you heard from someone who works there, they
would have plenty of stories.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Oh I bet, Oh I.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Bet someone said that they had a cousin. This is
from who was this from Blue Sky? It's Bees says
cousin was a nurse for fifty years. Fifty years, so
many stories, all assault, but they brushed it off because
it's just becomes part of the job. It shouldn't be
(18:01):
so people luting this show for being a really good
representation of what it's like to work in this.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Role that they just went to that specific part.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Okay, So I don't know if they look at well
like that one guy said, isn't isn't isn't it's twenty.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Four but in an er right hour by hour?
Speaker 10 (18:19):
Right?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Yeah, and so like that that one doctor said, it's
a fifteen hour shift that you'll never have. So maybe
they don't laud it for that, but maybe And again
it was just this specific part where everybody where like there.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Was a like a a resident I don't know what.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Everybody's job is, or medical student where they were floored
that a that a er nurse or doctor got hit
and the er nurse or doctor was like, no, that
goes on all the time, like that's regular. That's the
part that they're lauding and saying, that's the part.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
That's real, isn't it right?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yeah, It's like talking to Steve about The Bear.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
A similarly named programs.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's like, yeah, like sometimes like some of the stuff
they get right.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
At Steve said it was probably one of the most
accurate representations of what it's like to.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Work in the kitchen. That is true, but it's not
all accurate.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Well, it's a TV show.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It's like w k r P at the end, A
lot of that is not accurate.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Could your example be any older.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Yeah, what's a modern days? No other modern day one?
Though it's never saw it at least it's newer.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You never saw because Joey and Jesse did a shift
in Full House. That's the second full House reference today.
But they but that would be more current. But you
know what, the you know what we've just learned.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
What there's a need.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
There's a a radio station focused drama on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Well it doesn't even have to be a drama, could
be a comedy.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
But there's a there's a radio focused desert for radio
themed TV shows.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I'm gonna I'm gonna write own treatment.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Maybe they reboot what was the Christian Slater one? He
had to learn from you?
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Oh, he came into Pirate, trump up the volume, thank you.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
But that was a movie.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Series, right, well, he brought flowers in on the last day.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
That was? What was the other? What was the Fisher King?
What's the other one?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
That was with Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams And Jeff
Bridges came to Pirate to study radio. I would pick
him up from the hotel on the way in. He
got to ride in the jeep line for it. With
a slashed roof from a night at Gazaaris.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Hi Elliot the morning, Hey Elliott, what's going on?
Speaker 12 (20:37):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Who's this?
Speaker 13 (20:39):
This is your nursing son from Australia. I just came
back from that six month trip in Central Europe.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right all night? Hey are you a Are you an
ear nurse or doctor?
Speaker 13 (20:50):
I'm an e R nurse and I got a thousand
times echo what Taylor said.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Worst part of the job.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
You can't cure stupid.
Speaker 12 (21:00):
My god.
Speaker 13 (21:01):
These people come in they're like, I think I have
a cough and you're like, f off, dude, like come
on and like So the second hardest part of the
job is one, uh, being able to switch between have
an empathy for these people because you really do feel
(21:22):
for them, and then having to switch milliseconds later to
be in a cast iron bee because you just.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
I mean, because you can't have empathy for everybody or
you're going to cry yourself to sleep at night.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
But you know what that kind of goes to a
little bit of like what Tyler was saying is that
when that doctor comes into do you, you don't know what
their previous patient was, so you don't know what they're
going through.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
And then the other thing and I can't with Somewhere
in the article and I think it got pointed.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I think they were talking about the show where they
were like, you have to remember it doesn't it's not
justifying the the the assaults right at all. It's just
saying people when they're in the emergency room, it is
probably the worst moment of their week, year, month, whatever
(22:11):
it is.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
So they're wrong.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Also, so it's possible you can have two big raw
butts in there who are going to go after each other.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
No, I'm being serious, oh one hundred.
Speaker 13 (22:21):
Percent, and you have to have empathy for them, and
then turn around and be like, get the s out
of my clinic.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
You're wasting my time.
Speaker 13 (22:31):
Because it's and then and then go right back to
putting a smile on your face and saying, hey, five
year old, you have internal bleeding. But here's some crams
and we're gonna do everything we can.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yeah, see I can.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So's I couldn't do it.
Speaker 13 (22:45):
Is a tall And the the abuse I've been uh so,
I you know, lived in Australia. They dropped the sea
bombs for Brexfast, so I've been called.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Every name in the book and some times they drop
the sea bottom to be like you're a top three
mass I love you?
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Oh so almost complimentary, right sometimes after a good show.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I say that to Diane.
Speaker 10 (23:09):
Exactly, yeah, and they mean it like they they yeah,
uh huh.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Have you ever been have you ever been grabbed?
Speaker 13 (23:20):
Oh? I'm one of the nurses that does not like
wearing scrubs, so they allow you to wear a knee
length skirt and that, and I'm I'm five ten and
I got a hell of a figure, so the like
I would come home with bruises on my ass and
not just from one patient.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Have you ever seen a nurse in the skirt?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Hey, hey, tall one, can you lower my band?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I'd like to pink a view maybe like in the fifties.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Yeah, when they wore the white hat.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Wait, so you wear a skirt.
Speaker 13 (23:50):
Yeah, I wear a black skirt and black tights.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
I don't.
Speaker 13 (23:53):
I don't like tants, man.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I don't like tants either, but I don't.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I don't know that I've ever seen that great a
flight attendant.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Wait a minute, so wait, wait, when you say you've
got bruises on your tushy, do you mean like from guys,
like from from guys groping your ass.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Oh yeah, no, And it's guys that you wouldn't.
Speaker 13 (24:23):
Even think of, like you go into the room. Actually
one guy was a patient special, which means one patient,
one nurse, and that's with patients that have dementia, and
they're with themselves so.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
They don't get confused. It's like the same person goes.
Speaker 13 (24:41):
Don't get confused. There's sundowners. They stand up in the
middle of the night and just say I have to
get home, and you worry about them standing up too fast,
getting hypotensive and then collapsing. But there's no need to
restrain them. So you just have one nurse in the
room to kind of monitor them to make sure that
if they do wake up overnight that I'm there to
(25:05):
protect them.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Sure, but that's who's grabbing your ass.
Speaker 13 (25:10):
Yeah, I would do their vitals. I'm leaning over their chests,
they're they're reaching up. They're trying to unblutten my bow
with one hand and then reaching around and just just
lifting it up.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Like, uh, by the way, can I say this? Can
I say this? This is the and I don't mean this.
Take this for what it's worth, right, is you may
not remember how to stand up, You may not remember
the two different nurses coming in, But god damn, I
remember how to undo a bra with one hand.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I don't blame them.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
To be honest, If I were seventy years old and
I were a dude and like a thirty year old
nurse comes in wearing a shirt, I'm probably fake to
mention just so I here.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I mean, we're getting like a man.
Speaker 11 (26:05):
That's right.
Speaker 13 (26:05):
What's I mean, what's gonna happen to him? Nothing? They're
not gonna get punished for it.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Okay, So other than the sundowners, which that's a term
I've never heard. What is the But like, so you've
been grabbed and pinched and stuff, but nobody nobody's like
hauled off and punched you.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (26:23):
I've gotten pinched, I've gotten bitten, gotten slapped in an
aggressive manner, being called every word under the sun that
you can think of.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Uh, I give you credit.
Speaker 13 (26:37):
I've gotten my hair pulled out. I had a few
bald patches for a while when I worked in the
overnight psych unit. Oh my god, wow, yeah see that.
But that the bruises, heel bites, heel, hair grows back.
The worst thing that happened.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Was ma'am ma'am, we can't, we can't.
Speaker 13 (27:01):
For the race, alright, he was, he was playing a
little five on one, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
All right, very good, thank you, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
But you know what I mean, thank God.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
No, not that it's going on, but that they not
everybody quite oh not the masturbation, the no no, but
but thank god. I don't want to say they put
up with it, because that sounds wrong to say.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
But that they stick with the job.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
They are.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Their desire to help is more than their desire to abandon.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
And I did try to find an image of the
last guys she talked about of the nurse skirt, but
all the results were Halloween costumes. Nurse Yeah.
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