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Gabrielle's avatar

I can’t tell you what a gift reading this was for me. I cried reading about your faith in nurses as I sit sipping my tea post meditation getting ready for my night shift in a medical ICU. This past Saturday, between shifts, I seriously contemplated handing in my resignation, though it would be financially irresponsible. How much PTO do I have? Can that get me through a bit? It’s not because I don’t love being a nurse. It is because the system is beyond repair and more barbaric than most imagine. I can give loving, competent care to the best of my ability in a system that definitely does not care about humans, but I’m still a part of it. And it’s pure rot.

Thank you for getting it.

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Lois Lassiter's avatar

I AM a surgeon...of dogs and cats, but still....surgery is ALWAYS painful and not infrequently there are complications...anywhere from minor to major. It should never be taken lightly.

Add to this the inherent risks of anesthesia(controlled poisoning)--like DEATH or brain damage and the whole thing is even more stupid.

It is nothing more than cosmetic surgery.

It's a reverse boob job and the reasons are just as dumb, but they found a bunch of either misguided or ghoulish, greedy psychiatric doctors to justify what is nothing more than cosmetic surgery.

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