Quote Originally Posted by VS Fan View Post
I think the medical profession has seen it all, and they probably don’t even talk much about it around the “water cooler” anymore.
As a retired RN, I can tell you that is just a dream. There are plenty of medical people who still make fun of us, think we are perverts, some even hate us enough to put us into the back of the que when it comes to being treated. No, they won't say anything TO YOUR FACE, but behind closed doors and after you are gone, many still laugh at us. Don't become complacent to the point where you think everyone will treat you just as well as the average straight person.
I just quit working when I realized that I am pretty well set enough to not need to work anymore, and, because there are plenty of nurses to staff the hospitals, it's just that the hospitals won't pay enough to make it worthwhile to go to work. Raise the salaries, and the 'nursing shortage' will disappear. The 'nursing shortage' has been a myth ever since I entered the profession back in the 1970's; the shortage, has been in employers willing to pay nurses what it would take to get us to come back to work. Even during the pandemic, hospitals would rather complain about the nursing shortage, than raise the pay enough to coerce us to come in to work. They also continue to run skeleton staffs, in order to save money and maximize profits.
All this, I suppose, just makes healthcare workers more likely to become less tolerant of anything they consider abnormal.