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It’s called empathy

What has your experiences taught you about the healthcare system?

I graduated from Nursing when I was twenty-three and worked on psychiatry/med/surg/peds, in public health, in a clinic, did covid swabbing and worked in a long-term care facility for years.

What did this teach me?

Stay healthy.

Appreciate your health while you have it.

If you’re young, don’t live for retirement or even look forward to retirement, live for right now.

Also, you just never know what other people are going through, so be nice.

There is a really great video I show to my students before we go out on Clinical to do their long term care and acute placements. It shows a day in a hospital and how each person there, whether they’re patients or staff, are going through their own problems.

Everyone had their own shit. It might be different shit but it’s shit just the same.

In case anyone is interested, it’s a quick video.

9 responses to “It’s called empathy”

  1. Iโ€™m not crying – youโ€™re crying!

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    1. Ikr?!

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  2. ๐Ÿ’ฏ agreed on this CJ. good health is better than any high tech hospital. you’ve got to find a way to control whatever health factors you can control. Mike

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    1. Absolutely!

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  3. I was the mom desperate to take her premature baby out of that isolette and hold him after several weeks of only being able to reach in with my hands.

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    1. Aww I can’t imagine ๐Ÿ˜ฅ

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  4. Empathy, yes! It’s so important. The medical profession is a very stressful environment, and people don’t often think about the tremendous efforts of all these professionals. They are heroes to me, so thank you, CJ, for writing this and sharing the video. We definitely need these reminders.

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  5. ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ Wow, hard hitting. Loved the Thoreau quote.

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