A few months ago I played the lottery. I usually don’t waste my money, but it was
over a half a billion dollars, so I forgot logic and sanity and gambled ten
bucks on the virtually improbable dream of winning it big. I don’t know why a half a billion suddenly made
me do such a stupid thing, but a measly $100 million is never worth my
time. I guess the whole thing doesn’t
make any sense.
However, I was at work before the
drawing and all my colleagues were standing around daydreaming and sharing with
one another what they would do if they suddenly found themselves a few hundred
million dollars richer overnight. I
heard everything from traveling the world, having homes in exotic locations, shopping
sprees of the rich and famous, sizable donations to charities and research
organizations, even randomly giving away million dollar checks to
strangers. Everyone had different dreams,
however the one thing they all agreed on is they would quit their job
immediately. I was quiet until someone
asked me what I would do. I told them I
was not sure, but I do know that I would not quit my job. They all looked at me in disbelief and asked
me if I was crazy. I simply smiled at
them and told them that I would not quit my job, but I was positive that I
would be fired before the day was through.
I am a Physician Assistant (PA) and
have been working in the Emergency Room for almost a decade and a half. I was told that the average life span of an
ER employee is 7 years. I have doubled
that lifespan and unfortunately I see no end in sight. Many probably think that 7 years is the time
it takes most people to burn out due to the stress and anxiety of the nature of
the job. Life and death struggles, even
with children. I am sad to say that you
win some and lose some. The death of a
child is never taken well, and I mention in my book MediSin that a small piece of us dies with the child when we are unable
to save his or her life. It’s harsh, but
such emotional stress is not the reason for such a short ER life span. Even the physical stress of working long
hours, typically 12 hour days, with no set breaks and overbearing patient loads
that in other hospital departments are considered illegal, causes ER personnel
to relocate at such a young age in their professional career. Even though these stresses are real, I am
certain that the real reason nurses, doctors and PA’s get out of emergency
medicine is simply because our patients are fat, lazy, careless pain in the
asses who are afflicted with an entitlement disease and express little to no
gratitude for the efforts of those trying to provide them healthcare in their
‘time of need’. Over 99% of patients
that plague the ER are in no way true medical emergencies and by all rights
should not waste our time, limited resources and often taxpayer money on
bullshit diagnoses.
The American people treat themselves like shit, abuse their
bodies and then run to the ER for every little hangnail and sniffle, convinced
that they are suffering from a medical emergency that needs immediate intervention
or else they may blow their brains out the next time they sneeze. After 50,000 patients, I have probably seen
less than 500 true medical emergencies, and that is being generous. The rest have been varying degrees of being
‘ill’. With the majority of those being
WIMME bastards (reference from the book MediSin)
and nothing more than symbolic sniffle.
“Sir, you have a boo-boo, and I will write you a Rx for someone to kiss
it and make it better. Thank you for
wasting our time in the emergency room today.”
So if I ever become financially
secure, whether it is from winning the lottery, discovering an inheritance from
a rich relative that I never knew existed, or the most likely scenario in which
I continue to work hard in the ER for another 20+ years (what a nauseating
thought) listening to complete bullshit everyday and save for retirement, that
is the day that my dream comes true and I can tell all these self centered,
lazy, pain in the asses what I truly think of them. They will get a healthy dose of the truth,
and that truth shall set me free.
Amen!!!
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