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- cross-posted to:
- lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
- onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I’d say I’m sorry for the title, but that would imply I was sorry for the title.
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Does that happen a lot in zombie stuff? I can’t remember any atm.
As Sir Terry Pratchett puts it:
“When a human doctor, after much bleeding and cupping, finds that a patient has died out of sheer desperation, he can always say, “Dear me, will of the gods, that will be thirty dollars please,” and walk away a free man. This is because human beings are not, technically, worth anything. A good racehorse, on the other hand, may be worth twenty thousand dollars. A doctor who lets one hurry off too soon to that great paddock in the sky may well expect to hear, out of some dark alley, a voice saying something on the lines of "Mr. Chrysoprase is very upset," and find the brief remainder of his life full of incident.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
“Mr. Chrysoprase is very upset”
In zombie media, the other reason they find a vet instead of a human doctor is that it ups the drama by showing how desperate they are to find any medical help, even if it’s suboptimal.
It also means that the people are being treated with meds meant for animals, not for humans. That means the audience / reader never knows if the meds are going to be effective, or if the dosage is going to be correct.
My vet is so good! 15 minutes after i leave i have an email that gives details of the appointment, explains any issues, and tells me when to follow up. I’ve asked her to be my primary care physician.
for some reason this comment spawned a situation in my head:
petplay/med kink scenario where the handler is an actual veterinary, who during an “inspection” diagnoses a real problem with their partner’s health
depending on the severity of the issue this could either kill the mood immediately, or elevate it to a 100
The fowl is in breach! I’m going in!
Foal?
fowl is in breach, like, an egg?
The older I get the more I relate to Elaine being a “difficult patient.” I feel like my chart got marked with “anxious” when i was at the ER a few years ago. Now multiple Drs keep trying to push pills on me for “anxiety.” I’m like yeah I was anxious at the ER because I went to the ER, I think everyone there is anxious.
I’d say I’m sorry for the title, but that would imply I was sorry for the title.
“I would like to take this moment to apologise… TO ABSOLUTELY NOBODY”
and nor should you, that title is solid gold.
I wonder what the numbers are, as well.
Like, if there are more veterinarians in total, or if they’re more spread out, then you’d expect that more of them would survive, just from that, than surgeons.
As an adult, I know, either as friends or family, two people who studied veterinary medicine in college, but only one who actually became a vet. I know four nurses. But I don’t know any medical doctors or surgeons.
Quick Google, at least for the US, but I imagine it’s similar for the rest of the world. There are about 1 million licensed medical doctors and about 100,000 veterinarians.
It makes sense, people go to the doctor a lot more often than animals.
I’m not sure how this plays into it, but doctors tend to be much more specialized and many specializations wouldn’t be useful in a zombie apocalypse, though their general knowledge would probably be valuable.
Rural doctors would probably do very well, though, a lot of them are going to have similar setups as vets.
The thing to also keep in mind is that only a small portion of doctors practice surgery (or even have credentials to do so). In contrast, almost all veterinarians are performing surgery on a regular basis
A Certified Nurse is the person that does all the real work. I’ve had more stitches tied by nurses than surgeons, been treated completely by a nurse without seeing a doctor. They’re the ones that work crazy fucking hours, sleeping at the hospital. But they are going to be at the hospital when the zombs hit so…
Last time I had a surgery, I accidentally insulted the lead nurse and instantly felt like I made the biggest mistake of my life, even though she said she thought it was funny.
We were having a friendly chat before the surgery and I guess I was too relaxed, and at one point, she said that if she makes a funny face, it was just her normal behavior and not something bad had happened, and I jokingly said, “How would I know?” and instantly died inside.
It’s like an automatic joke I’d say with my friends, but I barely knew this lady. I hadn’t even really noted what she looked like. And when I actually looked, she had a very alternative look. I think she had a lot of tattoos and green hair.
She thought it was funny, but I started sweating.
I mean I had to read that a few times to understand what you thought was a faux pas. That wasn’t the worst she had heard that morning lol.
The nurses I work with will brush off patient shit talk, but grind their teeth over bad management decisions. I’m given to understand this is normal.
That’s because doctors and surgeons don’t have time to spend on things outside the cloister like friends and family
The only vets I want to honor are the animal ones
Considering the correlation between surgeons and psychopathy I’m not entirely sure you’d want to find a surgeon in a post-apocalyptic world.
Really ??
Absolutely. Makes sense if you think about it. You got to be a little off to be able to cut into people easily.
Yeah. I’ve gotten to know too many surgeons too well. I know one who hasn’t got the God complex and isn’t the whole walking stereotype. If he were still practicing I’d recommend him to you for any surgery you wanted so long as he’d agreed to do it, he’s legitimately the best I’ve ever met. He was going to disassemble and research me when I died, but I outlived his career (everyone expected me to die about twenty years ago, ten years ago at the latest). Every single other one? I do not have polite words to describe them.
I don’t know
You don’t know what?
Where you get that idea
Huh?
I am sorry for the title for you. Most vets dont deserve special respect.
my guy, the title is a play on words, vets meaning veterinarians
