Comment on Depart, men of education.

Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Necroscope0@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Some people are built different. My dad worked as a pediatric hospice nurse for almost 10 years. Talk about a shitty sad job. Every single patient is a child and every single one of them is GOING to die on your watch. Fuck THAT. I do not know how he did it.

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  • shawn1122@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I figure we have to have some angels to balance out the demons that end up in positions of prominence in our societies.

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  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Now that is a hero

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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They are just doctors. No need to glorify them. They do no more or less than a bus driver. Most jobs have an emotional toll.

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  • Angelusz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Let’s agree to disagree. I respect bus drivers as much as you do. Some people, however, have a greater positive effect on humanity as a whole, and that deserves its own form of respect.

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    • head_socj@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I agree to disagree. Doctos may have a more immediate bad tangible benefit on people’s health and well-being, but providing safe and reliable public transportation to untold amounts of working class people who may rely on you to provide for their families is also a massive positive effect that should not be diminished simply for being less culturally prominent.

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      • michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Its not being diminished you are diminishing doctors who save dying children after 20 years of intensive education with driving a bus

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’d have to imagine that the stress and emotional toll is significantly higher for a paediatric oncologist than a bus driver. There’s not so many people that could cope with that.

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  • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Good to know. Next time I have a medical issue, I’ll ask my bus driver for a diagnosis. What are your thoughts on subway drivers or Uber drivers?

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  • misteloct@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Agreed, I would be equally angry if a bus driver were detained by ICE. Their immigrants status and then solidarity is more important than their profession.

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  • shawn1122@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Having known several healthcare workers with PTSD from the pandemic I strongly disagree.

    Granted the pandemic was traumatizing for people from all walks of life but I don’t envy hospital based nurses or doctors from that time.

    It was so painful for nurses that many quit and we still have a nursing shortage today and likely for the next decade as a result.

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  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re right though. We don’t need healthcare

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  • Kage520@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Different energy. Bus driver has to deal with many potentially grumpy people in many potentially unsafe areas. Not an easy job.

    A doctor that is specifically specializing in a field where he has to get to know and take care of children as they die in a potentially painful way, has a much different challenge. Less for safety or aggressive people (though maybe parents could be I guess) but more in being the one to watch as the hope fades for each individual child in their last days.

    I wouldn’t love the bus driving job. I don’t think I could do the pediatric oncology one for more than like, one patient ever. I’d be depressed forever.

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