Your hospital summary left me with several "what the fuck!"s. If you haven’t already, go back and talk the Patient Advocate office. Type up a summary ahead of time going into as much detail as possible, especially when/where/who.

They dropped the ball, and it sounds like the issue is interdepartmental communication - OR, recovery (PACU / post op), and med-surge floors (extended stay following surgery) should all be on the same page.

Floats do happen, but if that float was tasked with more than they could handle, that’s shitty management on the unit’s part.

If they fucked yours up that bad, they’re probably fucking it up for others too, so again, Patient Advocate. There should be contact info for them on your hospital’s website, but I’d recommend just going there in person.

Doesn’t have to just be complaints either - copy pretty much everything you posted in the OP - they might add some of the tips and tricks to the preop instructions.

Is single-port laparoscopic an option for an appendectomy? That’d put an incision on the left.

There’s also situs inversus.

Oh I’d have been banned as fuck with all the shit that’s happened since then. Pro Luigi? Ban. Anti-genocide? Ban. Pointing out that Trump has made himself a valid military target to our own military by making himself a domestic enemy to our constitution? Ban.

I’d have found my way here sooner or later.

I must have worded something stupid in my initial post here - half the ‘retorts’ here have just restated the post I made. Or, tried to make?

Normally on Lemmy I wouldn’t get this much pushback for saying that being a gardener or w/e isn’t something to shit on.

I’d be willing to bet most everyone in this conversation is 99% on the same page, but some dumb miscommunication has us bashing heads.

We getting into strawman shit, or are you just not paying attention? The suicidal shit came before the military, not because of it. I’ve got plenty of real faults if you want to make a dig at any of them - no need to make shit up.

You’re missing the point - not everyone has the privilege to consider the cause.

Even now as a civilian in healthcare, which sounds infinitely more benign, I’m stuck working for a different flavor of orphan grinding machine in exchange for a paycheck. …but does that mean I should personalize the evil shit this industry does, like refuse care if someone’s too poor, or do provide care but financially ruin them in the process? I’m a surgical tech, soon-to-be nurse: I can’t control any of that shit. Should I quit in protest? Cuz that won’t change anything outside of severely reducing the quality of my own life.

Same is true of the military: you milk a living out of a shitty system. Are there other options? Sure, but the vast majority of those are shitty too.

I left “I’m a fucking idiot” in there for a reason. Had I played my cards better in the first place I wouldn’t have been stuck weighing whether I should kill myself or put myself into that kind of ethical disaster… which probably would have ended with killing myself anyway.

Lucky for me, they made me a medic, so I never had to find out.

Everything he does makes a lot more sense when you consider that he’s an enemy of the US actively trying to do as much damage to our country as possible. Attacking Iran is no exception - the following retaliation and economic shitstorm are the point.

Veteran here. It’s more like: “I’m a fucking idiot, but I could use some healthcare, and that college thing sounds nice.”

Plan B was to kill myself, so I don’t feel bad about enlisting - I got what I needed from it.

You’d be amazed how few people join because of cliches like patriotism. That said, it’d be way less fucked if people could get things like healthcare and education without needing to agree to blow themselves or others up.

next time

Here’s hoping there will even be a next time.

The lack of experience is worthy of criticism; but the “Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant” is presented as not worthy of respect. Which is bullshit.

It has the same air as some trumpanzee dipshit trying to insult AOC by calling her a ‘bartender’, as though having been a bartender makes her unqualified for her current position, which is similarly bullshit.

Gardeners, store assistants, and bartenders all contribute to our society and shouldn’t be looked down on for their role; nor should that role be held against them when they decide to move on to something else.

…I guess my point is that gardening and entry-level-grocery are completely fine and expected experience for a 22 year old; but that no 22 year old could have the experience to do well as a leader in terror prevention. So, there’s a distinction between criticizing the absence of experience (justified), vs criticizing someone for having actual experience in an unrelated field (bullshit).

22-Year-Old

Obvious lack of experience and not qualified for the position.

Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant

Completely irrelevant, and not something to criticize. God forbid people get a shit starter job when they’re joining the work force.

I mean, in practice, I guess yeah. On paper, it’s initiated by a political process, but ultimately it’s a criminal investigation. The acquittal was due to the process being wrongfully politicized. In a system that actually followed its own rules, he’d have been indicted and imprisoned for the crimes he’s committed against the US.

The system we have will, at best, put on a dog-and-pony show, call it “impeachment”, and try to pass that off as actual justice like it did last time.

clearly grounds for impeachment

…add it to the pile, I guess.

But considering that impeachment is a legal process and that the current administration has zero respect for or inclination to follow the law, it’s not like it’ll accomplish shit. Dude needs to be deposed by those who have sworn to defend the constitution from domestic threats (the military) not run through some formal process.

Reddit backstabbing the 3rd party app developers was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. Found my way here during that shitstorm. Full deletion of my Reddit accound, haven’t looked back. The quality of Lemmy has left me no desire to relapse.

fuck up worse than Bush Jr

Trump is an enemy to the US. He isn’t fucking up, we’re letting him succeed.

There is no why, bröther.

Post the 10 commandments in Arabic, with alternating colors in each letter that correspond with the Pride flag. Just to be petty.

Protests against this neonazi flavor of right wing extremism have been happening for decades. They haven’t accomplished shit. To the contrary, things have gotten considerably worse. The protests are ignored. The protests will continue to be ignored so long as they’re just noise.