In my dreams, you lay your sorrow on the table, and the air between us is soft and we have time.
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I guess its good she didn’t try to diagnose you based on a blood test she didn’t understand. Sometimes when places are overworked nurses will step into more and more of the doctor role until they’re clearly out of their competency zone, and it sounds like they’re fucked for doctor.
Yes, there used to be 4 regular doctors, but three retired recently. Now they have the one regular and a load of locums. It’s chaos and awful.
I hate the vicariat in the healthcare system. Just employ people, not everyone can be a substitute.
A supermajority of the nurses at the place i usually get shifts are substitute, on temporary contracts or some employment agency workers on perenially renewed contracts, and as a result there’s a huge organisational mess that they need to hire more short term workers to sort.
Sorry for the rant, I’m not trying to redirect from your issue, I just have a related issue.
What country are you in?
Denmark
I thought things would be better there.
Some problems we have, some problems we don’t. The reason we have so many part time nurses is a direct result of union negotiations so stupid it makes you doubt the entire concept of organised labour.
I always thought the Nordic countries seemed like a utopia, but then I haven’t been there since about 2008. maybe things have changed a lot.
A lot of things are as you remember them i imagine. Most of our cool institutions came out of a strong social democratic movement in the 20s and a dissident left in the 60s and 70s. But the social democrats embraced liberalism hard in the 90s and 00s. Thorning was big on think tanks, consultants, “efficiency” and instituted damaging policies that require yearly savings from every institution but barely allow for investment, Mette Frederiksen explicitly did not want a left wing coalition and has basically disavowed all parties to her political left while forming a government with the right, and is so ideologically committed to austerity that she refuses to spend budget surpluses on anything but the military.
We got the labour right virus too, just milder