Divemedic

I Refuse

I just did something for the first time in my 35 years as a healthcare worker- I refused to accept a patient. When I got to work, the nurses in one zone were keeping a ratio of 4 to 1. My assignment was to take 3 patients from 3 different nurses, which together with the other nurses arriving at the same time as I would be lowering the zone to a 3 to 1 ratio.

Two of the nurses turned over their patients with no issues. The third nurse was Nurse Slacker, so I took a look at the chart. The patient had been placed in that room an hour and a half earlier, and nothing had been done. No vital signs had been taken, no IV started, no lab work ordered or drawn, and no assessment had been done. I went to the charge nurse and told him that I would not be accepting responsibility for that patient until the nurse actually did her job.

 I will not be placing my name anywhere on that nurse’s chart and refuse to accept her patients unless they are properly cared for and it is properly documented. I am not risking my medical license for that incompetent, lazy slacker of a nurse. You can’t make me assume care for someone else’s patients when that person hasn’t done a single thing for them. The rest of the nurses in the zone won’t assist her because they aren’t willing to do her job for her, either.

When she finally came to me to give me report two hours later, she hadn’t even noticed that the charge nurse had done everything, treated the patient, and discharged her an hour earlier. That’s right, her patient had been gone for an hour and she never even noticed.

The charge nurse had no problem with it, and said that it would help if she wasn’t off the floor half the time. Management needs to do something, but they won’t.

EDITED TO ADD

For those who are asking: She is white. However, she is in a protected class, that of breastfeeding mothers. It’s due to a Federal law called the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (PUMP Act). The law says that employees who are nursing have the right to reasonable break time and a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view to express breast milk while at work. Sure, it says reasonable, but that is subject to a court’s interpretation. What this means is exactly what the woman has told fellow employees- she can be in the pumping lounge as often and for as long as SHE thinks is reasonable. On of our charge nurses told me that they had a meeting about her, and they have been told that she is untouchable because she has already been to HR with her attorney in tow.

By Divemedic, ago

The Gulag

A long time ago, so long ago that the posts have been lost to time, I warned that we should not grant the powers of the Patriot Act or of the GWOT to the Republicans, lest we see those same powers granted to the left and abused by them. I was shouted down. I know some of those comments were made on the now defunct Packing.org as well as on a couple of progun sites whose names I can no longer remember.

I didn’t take long. Even the Republicans abused them. For example, Sheriff Grady Judd abused the laws in order to shut down the website that made GW look bad. That was the case of Christopher Michael Wilson, who ran a website that allowed people to post nude pictures of women on the site, and it required a credit card to access, so that the Wilson would know that people accessing the site were adults. Military men complained that they could not do so while in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, because the web servers in those countries blocked credit cards from being processed by companies who promoted pornography. Because of this, Wilson allowed members who posted pictures from the war zone to have access to the site. The site became a photo journal that chronicled the Iraq war. It was one of the first sites to publish the Abu Grhaib pictures that so embarrassed former President Bush.

It eventually came to pass that Obama began abusing those same laws, declaring those who dared disagree with his policies.

It is those very laws, the same government policies and personnel, that were unleashed upon the enemies of the left, once Biden took office. I am talking about the way that the J6 rioters were treated. They were tortured, mistreated, and illegally held- despite all of the sturm und drang that was unleashed over the treatment of terrorists at Gitmo. Watch this video:

https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1882841850148700180

The comments to it are enlightening. The leftists on there who say “Well, next time he won’t trespass in the Capitol.” The issue is that Enrique Tarrio wasn’t convicted of being in the Capitol. He never, in fact, entered the building. Somehow, they took a man who was of mixed black/Cuban heritage and made people believe that he was a white supremacist.

I want you to replay every event in your life, especially the ones that can be used to paint you in an unflattering light. Now picture the left’s enforcement arm in the FBI spinning that in the worst way possible, then amplified and embellished by the MSM. Then they use it to toss you in the Gulag. That’s what happened here.

No matter how evil you think our government is, it is much worse than you can possibly imagine. Corrections officers are some of the most sadistic of the entire bunch. I watched a CO torture a man with my own eyes, then saw him lie about it, then watched as his own superiors told me and three other staff members that we didn’t see what we all just saw.

If you think that, just because Trump one an election, that the left has given up, you are sorely mistaken.

By Divemedic, ago

Too Fast To Keep Up

Trump is getting things done so quickly, that it is difficult to keep up. The latest is how the left has its panties in a bunch because the President has ordered the CDC to cease all collaborative work with the WHO, effective immediately.

The left is pointing to possible set backs to work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and monkeypox in Africa. They also point out that health authorities around the world are monitoring bird flu outbreaks among U.S. livestock.

  1. Marburg is a hemorrhagic fever that is not seen outside of Africa. It isn’t our problem- so let the WHO solve it. The only outbreak of Marburg that wasn’t in Africa occurred in Germany in 1967 and was due to lab workers being exposed to African monkeys.
  2. We don’t give a crap about monkeypox. Stop having gay sex. Solved.
  3. The CDC’s job is literally to monitor the US livestock infections. If they can’t handle that without the assistance of the WHO, then maybe we should disband the CDC and the $10 billion a year they get in funding can be better used elsewhere.

Those who oppose withdrawing from the WHO claim that it requires Congressional approval. OK, but that doesn’t require the US continue to provide them with information, workers, and contractors. Find the loopholes. That’s what they did to us for the past four years, so now Trump is using the left’s own tactics against them.

The WHO has an annual budget of 2 to 3 Billion, with nearly half of it coming from the US. Why does the United States, who already has the CDC and USAMRIID, need to fund the World Health Organization? Let the rest of the freeloading countries of the world stop sucking at Uncle Sam’s teat.

It’s time that we spend our money for us, and stop looking at taxpayer dollars as some charity fund for the rest of the world, or as a free money program for useless government employees. Do your job, or learn to code.

I would go one step further- let’s also withdraw from the UN, or at the very least, fund it on a more equitable level and let them establish their headquarters somewhere else.

By Divemedic, ago

Karma is Beautiful, But Sometimes Slow

In 2009, I posted about an Oklahoma cop who pulled over an ambulance that had a cardiac patient in the back because the cop believed that the driver of the ambulance had flipped him the bird. The paramedic in charge of the crew told the trooper that they had a patient in the back, asked the trooper to follow them to the hospital and told him they could handle the situation there. It was at this point that the trooper let his oversized ego take over, and instead of doing the sensible thing that would have best served the public that both the cop and paramedic are sworn to serve, decided to arrest and choke out the paramedic.

The reason why the cops were so hell bent on arresting this medic? The trooper was on the way to a call because another cop had been in an accident that was his fault. The trooper was rushing to the scene so he could do a blood draw on the driver that had been hit, hoping that it could be proven that the driver was drunk and thereby make it his fault, and not the cop’s. It seems that the police have some real corruption issues here.

In reviewing the case, the local prosecutor agreed that the cop was in the wrong and had likely committed an unlawful assault against the paramedic, but also stated that pursuing charges would not be in the best interest of the law and decided to give the cop a free pass. All he wound up receiving for punishment was a five day suspension.

I bring this case up because I really missed the ball on the conclusion of this case. Here is how the rest of the story went down.

The paramedic filed a lawsuit in the case, and the cops (as always) hid behind qualified immunity and wanted the case dismissed. While all of this was going on, the paramedic was arrested again by a small town Oklahoma cop as the medic was on the way to the courthouse to testify against another cop in an unrelated case.

The court refused to dismiss the medic’s lawsuit, setting the case for trial, and the cop appealed that ruling. The appeals court sided with the paramedic and the case moved forward. The paramedic wound up getting half a million dollars.

The trooper wound up being investigated again, this time for sexual allegations involving photos with accusations that the photos were of minors.

This is where karma finally decided to show up. The trooper had a heart attack in 2018 and needed an ambulance to take him to the hospital. He was sent to a rehab facility for treatment, where he had a second heart attack, got a second ambulance ride, and finally died. I am not above celebrating the death of someone who deserves it, and it seems that his death was the only way that he was ever going to pay for being a dictatorial asshole, so I am going to gloat over this one. The only way this could have turned out better is for the paramedic who he roughed up to be the one who took him to the hospital.

I will treat people to the best of my ability, no matter how badly they have treated me, because I swore an oath to do so, and my word is my bond. However, I never swore that I wouldn’t be happy that someone got what was coming to them. Karma, after all, is a bitch.

By Divemedic, ago

America’s Sheriff? Not mine.

Let’s not leave out that grandstanding, antigun asshole Grady Judd, who wants to find a way around Trump’s pardon of the J6 defendants.

“I understand the 30,000 foot view of what the President did, but there’s a granular level where they were attacking our police officers who were just doing their job. There was a better way to deal with that,” said Judd.

Nope. Those cops were supporting the theft of an election. That is indisputable. For that reason, “Just doing my job” is bullshit. Shooting an unarmed woman for trespassing isn’t “just doing your job,” nor is inviting people into a building, then showing up to their homes years later to toss them in prison. Torturing prisoners isn’t a job that needs to be done, nor is supporting the outright and obvious theft of an election. That excuse didn’t work for the concentration camp guards of Germany, nor does it work here.

By Divemedic, ago

Pardons Don’t Mean Shit

President Donald Trump ordered that the defendants from January 6 be pardoned. As the chief executive, the power to issue pardons is absolute. That doesn’t mean shit to the leftist enforcers. Although Olivia Pollock and Joseph Hutchinson III have been pardoned for their actions on January 6, the Feds still would not drop the counts of failure to appear in court from 2023. Why didn’t they appear in court?

After reading stories about the abuse suffered at the hands of police that are detaining J6 defendants for trial, knowing how cops will abuse and torture prisoners, and how they are transferring them to Supermax prisons, many J6 defendants began simply skipping out on their trials and sentencing hearings:

So Pollock and Hutchinson did what many would have done- they simply removed their ankle monitors and skipped town. Because of that, the Feds decided that Trump’s pardon didn’t excuse them from criminal charges.

The good news is that a Federal judge ordered that the charges be dismissed. The Federal employees are refusing to obey orders. This is being replayed all over the government- there are employees and former military members who still are loyal to the commies that are trying to overthrow our government. They need to be rooted out- every last one of them.

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By Divemedic, ago

Caetano v. Massachusetts

The next time some brain dead moron tries saying that the Second Amendment only applies to muskets, please refer them to Caetano v. Massachusetts 577 U.S. 411 (2016). In that case, the US Supreme court held 9-0 that the Second Amendment applies to all bearable arms, not just those that were in existence at the time that the Second Amendment was ratified.

In that case, the Massachusetts Supreme court had ruled that stun guns are not protected [by the Second Amendment] because they “were not in common use at the time of the Second Amendment’s enactment,” that stun guns are “dangerous per se at common law and unusual,” and that “nothing in the record to suggest that [stun guns] are readily adaptable to use in the military.” 

The U.S. Supreme Court, per curiam, vacated, reiterating that “the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding,” and that it has rejected the proposition “that only those weapons useful in warfare are protected.”

This line of argument will eventually be the one that kills both the NFA and the GCA.

By Divemedic, ago

I am the law!

Oklahoma Senator Regina Goodwin famously demanded that Trump be “locked up” because no one is above the law.

So it comes as no surprise that she refused to show her driver’s license when she was pulled over for running several stop signs, escalating the traffic stop into a shouting match, simultaneously proving that she believes herself to be above the law, and disproving the claim that all cops are just looking for a reason to shoot black people.

If it weren’t for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.

By Divemedic, ago