Speaking of my last post:

Many people are actually feeling that "something in the air" and it's not just that we had the largest civil rights movement in our history that was essentially met with a collective shrug by those in power (or complete weakness of those we vote to have power vs those we don't... proving once again that we don't live in a democracy or republic or what have you). 
Well those int he medical field are feeling it too. More than just the shortages or over charging by insurance companies (or same companies denying benefits etc etc) or labor shortages. No, they're sensing something. Now, it could be a mix of the changes we've seen from this pandemic (or solidifying of the hierarchies, the jubilee for the superrich but not for us, etc etc), but perhaps it's more:

It's a subtle anxiety where you are? We are out of RNs and IV contrast and everything except patient satisfacton surveys. This shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S. 

That said, I am grateful so many if my family and med school friends are alive. I remember sitting in the dark watching footage from Italian hospitals in early 2020 and wondering which of us would be here in a year. And it's nothing compared to what the doctors in Ukraine deal with every day. Everything is relative.

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[–]KetamineBolusMD[S] 98 points 21 hours ago 

Even outside of the rn shortage, full hospitals, med/contrast shortage. Something big is coming

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[–]ineed_thatMD-PGY2 185 points 20 hours ago 

I think we’re inching closer to the peak of a total healthcare collapse. The last of Travel nursing is being rolled back by hospitals. More people are quitting and travel isn’t seen as a viable option to replace them. Remaining staff are quitting. More groups are unionizing (residents, nurses) everywhere. There’s even less trust in the medical establishment than usual after the latest Alzheimer’s study fraud and SSRI thing came out last week. Feels like shit keeps building and building. Expecting it to start unraveling even more during winter when the energy crisis gets mixed in with full recession stuff and hospitals get even more flooded with social cases

And this is at all parts of the system:

That's interesting bc there has consistently been an overabundance of pharmacists over the past 10 or so years due to the large number of schools. Perhaps it has to do with how little they pay? I'm a pharmacist, but I work in ambulatory care and I'm pretty sure a chain pharmacy would pay me $20 less per hour.

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[–]MochaUnicorn369 31 points 1 day ago 

From what I’ve read working for a chain is a nightmare - over worked to the point of dangerousness etc. And low pay.

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[–]CatsNFleasNBootsNBee 4 points 16 hours ago 

My mom is a pharmacist and had to work 100 hours a week during the height of the pandemic. Now that it’s “calmed down” they decided to cut her salary by 20,000$ a year. They framed it as fixing her work life balance by closing the pharmacy 2 hours earlier, while expecting the same quota. Wish they did that while she would come home crying every day from work form the stress. She’s been a pharmacist for almost 30 years. 

IHer pharmacy students are shitting themselves because they see how overworked, overwhelmed and underpaid they are. Pharmacy students are starting at 50-55$ an hour when it used to be at least 66$-70$. Insanity.

Apparently you can go to r/collapse and get a feel for the coming apocalypse. So it goes, but that does make a handful of my short stories that I'm working on ever "past it"
be safe out there

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