honestly you probably shouldn't go into the medical profession if you aren't prepared to treat patients with dignity and respect - even if your job exploits you, even if your bosses suck, even if you're exhausted.
yes, you are allowed to have feelings and be tired. but you have to be willing and able to either admit when you can't do something (and take the consequences), or put how you feel aside and do your job. for the sake of your patient.
you and your job may be harmed by the medical industrial complex's wrongness, but to your patients, you are part of the complex that is also gravely failing them. you have the power to be a force of goodwill and care, or an instrument of oppression.
that is what you're signing up for when you become a medical professional. don't like it? don't become a medical professional.
I really appreciated how Strange New Worlds portrayed PTSD in ‘Under the Cloak of War’
From the way Chapel and M'Benga disassociated when they were triggered.
To how the two and Ortegas talk about their experiences during the war... Bravo
My favorite line is when Chapel says 'Why is it so hard to explain to people that weren't there?'
When we go through a traumatic experience, it can be hard to connect because we feel that nobody understands what it was like to experience what we have.
Connection is often the first step in healing and just as often it’s the hardest step to take.
I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day, check my pinned post for active polls
Oh dear, I have no idea what to draw next for my spin on "Player saves everyone" AU- I could try making a player character profile? Or a quick rundown on how the main group is doing after defeating the Prototype? Or I could start with Catnap being the WORST patient EVER post-game...
I've wanted a new commission with De.rek for a while now. Her simple art style stood out to me, so I had to give it a shot.
I specifically chose my outfit to match De.rek's. These could work for a cafe date. 🥰
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Doubles DNI. If you ship, Der/Ang (Der.ek X An.gie), please be respectful and don’t mention the ship to me as it makes me uncomfortable. Also, please do not use it for your own content/insert yourself into this piece. (Ex. Making comments like “I wish this were me” or “This is us”). Those types of comments make me really uncomfortable and I will not hesitate to mute/block you. Just please be respectful. Thanks for understanding!
Pretty sure half the reason I love Erica as much as I do is that she's actually okay. She's gone through shit, but she came out the other side and went "y'know, I'm not down with all this unresolved angst and poor coping mechanisms." Girl went to therapy and worked her shit out.
There is one thing I will miss about nursing and that's cute accessories — aesthetic cheat badge cards, colourful torch lights, brain-shaped badge reels, rainbow lanyards, mini whiteboard markers, pronoun pins, handover notebooks with beagles and cats, crocs with medical jibbitz... Maybe I'll post my little collection before I give it away when I leave work...
It probably tells a lot that this is the only thing I'll miss
(And maybe the times when you give some extra time and attention to a patient during personal care and they tell you they already feel more like themselves a bit and get that new spark in their behaviour or trying to talk more when their family comes to visit... despite how unprioritized personal care is on neuro icu, or any critical care in general, I always found it to be very soothing and rewarding)
EMT/paramedic uniforms are nicer than scrubs (and more gender euphoric for me) though and I'd be glad to leave for a slightly less toxic field with slightly better pay and career options