The Diary of a Medic

Life through the eyes of a paramedic. Life lessons and stories from the back of an ambulance. No one tells you, when you begin your journey in medicine that your biggest life lessons would come from patients.

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“Kill the part of you that believes it can’t survive without someone else.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, War Songs

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I’m trying

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I wish I could

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Anyone wanna chat?

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Missing your post. Did you stop doing them?

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I did. Unfortunately.

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THIS

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Real

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the autistic struggle of trying to say “please stop talking to me I don’t have the brain power to continue this conversation” without actually saying it

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Autism isn't a defect; it's a different way of being. Each of us has a unique set of abilities, strengths, and perspectives that enrich the world around us. Celebrate your autism, embrace your differences, and wear your neurodiversity with pride!

Remember, it's not about being 'normal'. It's about being you.

Thoughts? Feel free to share!

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“Love can happen in a split second. Bondedness can't. That's the thing we learn the hard way. That love is not the end of the story. It's just the first chapter. The next chapters demand that we acknowledge our wounding, clear our emotional debris, strengthen our capacity for attachment, learn how to authentically relate, mature in the deep within. Chapter after chapter of refining our ability to meet love with a true heart. This is the work of a lifetime.”

— Jeff Brown

[ Art • “Love Above All” by Tarn Ellis ]

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““If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.” - Mik Everett”

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Since it's been a while since I have been around, let's talk about something important.

Burn out. This hit me so hard. Even my days off no longer felt like days off, if I was lucky to have one. My employer worked me so hard, I was constantly surrounded by death.

Burn out doesn't just happen from caregiver fatigue, it happens when your promised days off don't happen, it happens when you are working your ass off constantly but you're the glue holding your team together.

It happens when you make phone calls to your bosses in the middle of a fucking emergency and their sleep is more important than doing their fucking job.

It happens when your coworkers can't get ahold of your bosses and you have to come in unpaid because the people who make the money to do that fucking shit don't come in, and if you don't take care of it your shift is going to be a shit show.

Burn out happens when you are constantly around abuse and neglect and no matter how many times you report it your bosses do not give a fuck.

If you are a director for a care home, if you're a charge nurse, if you're anything involved in the fucking medical field read this.

Stop working your best workers to death, stop expecting them to constantly come in on their days off when you are not wanting to cover any shifts. Pick up your fucking phones.

Listen to the reports of abuse and neglect instead of acting shocked when your workers decide to whistle blow, because you can't pull your head out of your ass.

Pandemic aside, everyone likes to pretend over working of workers never happened, and blind eyes were turned.

I hope to God your fucking eyes are opened the fuck up now.

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Another set of beautifully laid out public health data points.

Compliments of Data is Beautiful [Instagram].

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Patient Conversations

Patient: "Have you ever done this before?"

Me: *scoffs* "Well, not SOBER."

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