This is how "f'd" up Trump supporters are.

[Cattledog]

Link to tweet

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Health care workers have been putting up with racist shit for a long, long time, no matter

who was president. The country is built on white supremacy, and people in their worst moments are going to grasp for things that make them feel in control.

[DENVERPOPS]

34. Hey Comila

Having spent more than a little time working in a Trauma Center near you, that kind of behavior would have never been tolerated.
At best, since the whole ER is based on "Triage", they would have spent 8-10 hours waiting for other patients being treated ahead of them, even for a runny nose.....LOL

[TheBlackAdder]

42. Go to a nursing home. The N-word is dropped so much, you'd think Django Unchained was playing on TV.

[ismnotwasm]

2. Violence against healthcare workers is already a huge problem

Add a healthy mix of MAGA assholes only compounds the problem.

[pangaia]

15. I didn;t know that..about Violence against healthcare workers

had no idea.

why in the world???

[Amimnoch]

19. There's a reason just about every ER has 24 hour police presence.

My husband did 2 years working as an admittance tech in NW Herman Memorial ER in Houston. The stories I’d hear almost every day.

Because our health insurance, and preventative health care system is so damn broken that so many who are without coverage wait until any condition they are in gets to a point of criticality the ER is often a cauldron of panic, anger, and overt hostility.

All those MAGA’t assholes who are always screaming that they don’t want to pay for other peoples healthcare are too damn dense and willfully stupid to stop and realize that the ARE paying for it, but paying at a much higher rate because conditions that could have been treated preventatively for much less are allowed to grow unchecked into high cost conditions.

They never stop to wonder why their insurance is being billed $150 and directly through deductible/copay another $39 for a $0.50 syringe.. and everything else they pay ridiculous prices for when those who do have money and insurance go to the ER.

[Laffy Kat]

3. I hope she ordered colonoscopies for those guys.

Since they're nothing but giant assholes, they should have an easy time of it.

[lunasun]

4. "Get a new job" they been pulling that line out since forever with racist workplace complaints

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Poiuyt]

5. This reminds me of a Sidney Poitier film where he plays a doctor assigned

to treat a Nazi.

Of course, in your case, it's for real. I'm glad there are people like you who are committed to helping everyone despite the emotional (and physical) difficulties.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. What was that movie/TV episode where the bigot got out of surgery and has two heads?

The new head is a black one.

[maveric]

8. Ray Milland and Rosie Grier.

[TreasonousBastard]

12. The Thing with Two Heads (1972) Low rent exploitation flick that, iirc, was not...

quite up to even Ed Wood standards, but it was a neat idea.

[pecosbob]

49. The Watermelon Man was a better picture.

[Martin Eden]

14. The racist was played by a young Richard Widmark

I think he got hurt in race riots in Chicago, which were ongoing.

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. Pressure Point!

Bobby Darin was surprisingly good as the Nazi.

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. How bad is it going to get as the 2020 election draws

closer, tRumpy continues to sink in the polls, the economy continues to slow and the Orange Menace begins to totally unravel and tries ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING to protect himself???? What we are seeing from the Deplorables right now is nothing. Dangerous uncharted times are coming.

[dalton99a]

9. There should be zero tolerance like in Canada:

Stopping hospital violence requires zero tolerance for unruly behavior, expert says
Webinar sponsored by AHA, ASHRM emphasizes processes to curb violence
March 16, 2017
Marty Stempniak

Hospitals must adopt a zero-tolerance mindset toward violence in their facilities and stop accepting the incidents as part of the job or underreporting them to improve patient satisfaction scores, according to Monica Cooke, a mental health registered nurse and risk management consultant with Quality Plus Solutions LLC.

Cooke delivered that message during a Feb. 15 webinar hosted by the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management of the American Hospital Association (AHA).

Cooke notes that more than half of emergency department nurses experience physical or verbal violence in a given week, and the majority do not report the incident.

https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/2793-stopping-hospital-violence-requires-zero-tolerance-for-unruly-behavior-expert-says

[hunter]

36. Trouble is that here in the U.S.A. the police frequently make a bad situation worse...

... and have been known to haul people away who are having heart attacks, strokes, etc., to die on the streets or in jail... if they don't simply choke or shoot them to death first.

Health care professionals get shit from their bosses when they stand up for themselves, and shit from their worst patients when they don't.

I always think hard before I call the police for anything.

I suffer no illusions that the police in the U.S.A. exist to protect me or anyone else, or even that police will do the right thing once they show up. They should, but too often they don't.

[onetexan]

10. The good dr. has a right to not treat the bad behaving patient

My hubby has done that to unruly patients.

[iluvtennis]

11. So DISGUSTING. I know doctors have to treat them as per hippocratic oath, but maybe let them wait

until a doctor of their approved ethnicity is available. Just saying.

I am so appalled at this ignorance. My family and I have seen doctors/nurses/medical staff of many different ethnicities over the years, we are just thankful that someone with the needed skill set could treat us. Can't stand such ignorance.

[Bob Loblaw]

17. I like the idea

of asking something like, "The white doctor is scheduled to be here in five hours, would you like to wait?" Or, "I think there's a white doctor on duty at the Emergency Room across town, the ambulance already left but I think I spotted a Lime scooter in front of the hospital on my way in that you could use."

[iluvtennis]

41. Like it 😍

[FoxNewsSucks]

54. That's what I'd tell them.

I was thinking "how fucking stupid do they have to be", then I remembered we're talking about tRumphumpers. . . .

[Submariner]

13. During the next meds injection forget

to flick the hypodermic needle to expel the air bubble.

[AllaN01Bear]

16. dangerous behviour at my local hospital anywhere on the grounds (esp the e.r ) activates a code

grey response from security. iam fed up with the felgercarbe as initated by dear leader .

[UCmeNdc]

20. Trump is bringing all of this racist behavior out of the closet. His supporters feel like it is okay

Trump says it is okay so it must be okay now to go after Latinos.

[lonely bird]

21. During a stay in a hospital

in Chicago I heard the PA announcement calling for Dr. Strong to ER. Dr. Strong is basically a call for big people: orderlies, cleaning people, whatever to go assist with subduing someone.

The incidents of racism and violence in this country simply underscores the fact that racism has never been dealt with and never will be.

[jayschool2013]

22. Journalists

We get called names doing our jobs as well.

Even here on DU.

Imagine that.

[UpInArms]

26. I was threatened a number of times

Too many to count ...

Physically assaulted ...

Told I would be shot...

Had my brake lines cut ...

All while running a local small town newspaper ..

And that was before trump

[perdita9]

23. Teaching would tolerate it

Which is why I no longer teach Community College classes. Too many whiny, entitled monsters in my class and an administration who's only concern was not getting sued. The safety of their staff never factored into their decisions.

We had a kid stand up in class and announce that he was going to go get a gun and kill the professor. I found out about it by reading an article in the newspaper. The college never even bothered to warn the rest of us about this kid.

[xyoungblood]

24. This isn't just Trump supporters, its the Republican party and their voters.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. they'd love my cardiologist -- first name Mohammed

I hope that dear doctor doesn't have to deal with MAGAts, but fear he can't avoid it around here.

[Skittles]

45. heh

I have a Korean eye doctor, a Chinese dentist, and a doctor from Vietnam did my colonoscopy......MAGAts can fuck right off

[VarryOn]

27. No medical staff should put up with ANY abuse...

From anyone whether in the ER or office or anywhere. My mom was an ER nurse for years and druggies were the worse when finding out the dr would prescribe a non-steroidal for pain rather than an opiate. Families could be bad too.

And while we are at it...teachers get lots of abuse too! Especially from parents who fail to teach their kids to respect authority and who come try to battle the teacher for making little Ethan obey in class. More than once my wife has come home in tears after having a momma bear rip her a new one for punishing her sweet child. The latest was because my wife took a kid’s cap because he repeatedly wore it in the building and ignored warnings to to take it off. The mom requested a meeting with my wife only to start the meeting telling my wife to give the cap back to her son and apologize. She did neither.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

28. Good, glad she didn't give it back!

But sorry she has to go through this crap.

I think any woman, of color especially, but anyone in any service type job likely experiences this garbage. Sad to say.

[VarryOn]

29. In my house growing up, it was...

Teacher’s word > student’s word

No if’s, ands or buts.

The “question authority” philosophy from the 60’s on, while good for the political realm, has been a detriment to education.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

31. If my parents got a complaint from a teacher,

I’d have been killed! 😵

[VarryOn]

33. The way it should have been...

And once a parent undercuts a teacher’s authority, that teacher is drastically limited in the ways they can deal with the problem child And the kid knows that. The teacher is cast into a difficult position.

[keithbvadu2]

37. Parent/teacher conference

[stevesinpa]

43. what if the teacher (or other authority figure) is a racist?

how about if the teacher is a liar? how about if the teacher just flat out doesn't like a particular student?
are there problem students? of course. are there problem teachers? of course. just automatically taking the teacher's word (or any authority figure's) is flat out wrong.

[VarryOn]

44. Of course, there could be specific instances...

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of bad teacher actions where the child’s experience should supersede teacher authority. It would hopefully be rare. I guess my point is parents’ default position should be a teacher has authority in his/her classroom as it relates tie the child. Too many parents are taking their child’s side automatically.

The anecdote I gave regarding my wife confiscating the young punk’s cap is a great example. Without knowing the story, mom sent a note saying that if he didn’t bring the cap home that day, she would come to the school the next day herself to retrieve it. Mind you, my wife has a patient, long-suffering, sometime timid personality. She gave the kid numerous warnings. The bitch of a momma bear mom went straight to assuming my wife was wrong.

If I would have come home telling my dad a teacher took my cap because I ignored her orders repeatedly to remove it, he would have have beat my ass (deservedly so) and sent a letter to my teacher that she would no longer have a problem with me on that particular issue.

I should have been more clear on my original report and explained there was room for dealing with teachers clearly in the wrong.

[Mr.Bill]

30. In my state (California)

violence or threats of violence against a health care worker is a violation of the same law that covers Law Enforcement officers.

[Willie Wunderlich]

32. I'm Ashamed of My State

WTF has happened to this Trump troll country lately?

I'm a native of Denver. I grew up learning to speak Spanish in the Denver Public Schools, and attended a city-wide cultural arts program where we learned about the 500 year-old Hispanic culture of Colorado and the American West. Colorado was originally part of the northern half of Mexico that was extorted (at gun point) by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

I was proud when my city of Denver elected Mayor Federico Pena and, later, U.S. Senator Ken Salazar-- two Hispanic American statesmen from old Colorado.

But now we have a racist moron in the White House who knows NOTHING about the American West, stirring up this kind of racist CRAP!

I blame Donald Trump directly for this bullshit -- including the murders and harassment of Hispanic Americans in El Paso, New Mexico, and Colorado. It's criminal.

We have to get this bastard out of the White House!

[Celerity]

35. 9NEWS Medical Expert Dr. Comilla Sasson responds to NRA Twitter post

After doctors released recommendations to reduce gun violence, the NRA tweeted that these medical professionals should stay in their lane. 9NEWS Medical Expert Dr. Comilla Sasson shares her thoughts on that.

[Manastash]

39. Blood transfusions

I had a patient once who was refusing a blood transfusion if we could not guarantee the blood was not from an Afroamerican. Ummm that’s not the word he used. He would rather die than have the transfusion.

They truly will shoot themselves to support their beliefs. A very sad situation it puts one in who was trained to save lives and stomp out pestilence.

[dalton99a]

40. +1. Because Jesus said there are separate drinking fountains for white people in heaven

Maybe there is a separate heaven for white people

[liberal N proud]

53. There was a great MASH episode that dealt with that

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638285/

[Clash City Rocker]

56. Wow. What did you do?

I suppose you lie to someone like that and just claim that you know the blood came from a white person. That guy doesn’t sound too bright.

[Beartracks]

46. What makes you think they were Trump supporters?

Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Just kidding!! If course they are, it's sadly obvious.

========

[JI7]

47. reading and listening to shit from Trump supporters it's all about how they are the Victims

in this world against the minorities .

[LittleGirl]

48. My sister was in a boating accident

And lost her right arm (eventually 3 days later) in Michigan.
They transferred her to a Detroit hospital for the amputation. My sister would not allow black nurses or doctors to touch her. It got especially bad when the morphine was in high supply to her brain. That was in 1997 and she’s still a fucking racist even after a stroke last November. We have spoken once in 5 years. I can’t believe we came from the same womb.

[mainer]

50. No manners, then no treatment for you

Unless they’re psychiatric patients, if they abuse a nurse or doctor, they should be asked to leave the premises. Tell them to find another facility.

[Captain Zero]

51. Yep, stabilize them, and tell them to leave

Something like that. With recommendations for the follow up care they need immediately somewhere else.

[liberal N proud]

52. If I were a health care professional...

I would ask those who are vulgar in such ways if they were really sick or really needed treatment because a person in need need not be choosy.

But that may be why I am not a health care professional.

[lunasun]

55. Also think of the racist health care workers treating POC.