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As we got him over to the gurney and his shirt off to switch a a hospital gown, we all noticed the number of Nazi tattoos.
14 posts in Nichols thread
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,147 posts)Takket
(21,425 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,147 posts)is a sign he needs to do some work, too.
Raven
(13,872 posts)holy hell as I kicked his ass out the door.
MissB
(15,800 posts)Period.
Caliman73
(11,694 posts)Yes, people with Nazi tattoos are deplorable, but the role of medical staff is to save lives, period. You can be disgusted, but your job is saving lives.
I have had to investigate abuse and mitigate risk for people who I found had repulsive views, even against the ethnic group I associate with. I do my job and try not to treat people better or worse than any other. Then, I debrief about how difficult it was to work with said person/people, then I do it again.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)Journeyman
(15,001 posts)I'm certain he'd find a face or three that didn't jibe with his ideologies.
dubyadiprecession
(5,620 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,452 posts)If I took an oath to help people no matter what and do no harm I'd hold my nose and help the son of a bitch. I would not be nice or polite to him. But I'd ask why'd you get those tats? If he's still a nazi I definitely wouldn't be gentle or nice,but I would do what I promised in the oath.
If I didn't have that oath promise to live up to I'd be very tempted to make it worse,let it be more unpleasant and painful for that nazi piece of shit.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)probably like muscle memory, or auto-pilot. See the mess and keep on working.
janterry
(4,429 posts)I think this is only marginally ethical (IF that).
This man could be identified, certainly by other medical staff, perhaps by his family and friends.
I don't applaud this MD at all.
lame54
(35,141 posts)Piasladic
(1,160 posts)but I've seen lots of threads here about not treating idiotic, non-mask wearing, covid deniers. It sort of surprises me that Nazi tattoos are less conflicting than treating our current crop of covidiots.
I suppose, one could argue that a tattoo doesn't automatically make them an active threat to people; whereas, a non mask-wearing, no social-distance, virus spreader does...
Thought provoking thread
hunter
(38,264 posts)She treats people like that every day and has been doing it near thirty years.
She's always worked in rough underserved communities. I think she's seen every sort of tattoo -- from swastikas and tears on faces to "Eat Me" on nether regions.
Her work this past month is pretty much all covid all the time. Ordinary health care services have been postponed indefinitely.
She's seeing patients in her clinic who would in normal times be hospitalized, but the hospitals are full and only taking patients who are very, very, ill. That's true for non-covid related health problems as well.
So far she's avoided covid but some of her colleagues have not been so fortunate.
The worst part of it is not visiting our families for fear of infecting them, most especially our parents.
mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)Warning: violence