• Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
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    10 days ago

    When I was 16 I had a temp job doing the bins at a hospital. One floor was cancer patients. There was one woman who always said hello to me with a big smile. It stuck with me because I couldn’t understand why somebody in that situation was being so nice to somebody she only saw for 5 mins a day.

    Next floor down was for old people. That was a lot more scary than the cancer ward. People dying unexpectedly, aggressive old men, shit all over the toilet floors. I’m glad I did only the bins.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    Do the cleaning staff typically know the patirnts’ conditions and other medical details? I suppose they can read the charts on the walls. Is that a hipaa violation? Or maybe they also have some hipaa training / certification.

    This would make a good shitmovie premise, like Good Will Hunting meets House, where the best doctor in the hospital is actually a janitor. Maybe he reads patient charts and secretly treats them for the real disease the other doctors haven’t found.

    • protist@retrofed.com
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      12 days ago

      Housekeeping definitely meets patients, and sometimes knows what’s going on with them based on seeing them and overhearing conversations. This is especially the case if someone is there an extended time. They are subject to and trained in HIPAA as hospital staff

    • zoltanshields@lemmy.zip
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      11 days ago

      I don’t think they read the charts or anything, but in my experience having a few family members with long hospital stays, usually housekeeping gets an idea of who someone is and their general condition pretty quickly.

    • Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      The patients get admitted to wards based on specialty. Oncology is a specialty. Dying cancer patient is admitted to oncology ward. Simple as.

    • SippyCup@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Charts aren’t publicity visible, and never have been as long as I’ve been alive. That’s mostly an invention of television, these days they’re entirely electronic.

      Yes, it’s a HIPAA violation, but it’s possible this is outside the US.

      That of course assumes that a greentext is even remotely true, but it’s obviously both fake and gay. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that)

    • Aquila@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      Most hospitals have areas for different specialties. i.e. the oncologist ward. So even though you dont have details everyone knows the patients there have cancer.

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    11 days ago

    260 is preeetty bad. Tho im also 5’11 and am 98kg(216) and i am healthy(bmi is bullshit, fat percentage and distribution also matters) but 260 is reaching the limit where you cant even achieve that healthily.

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      BMI is bullshit but mostly in the other direction - people who are overfat without being overweight by BMI. It’s much less common to be overweight without being overfat.

      What is also true, though, is that the risk curve for underweight is sharp but for overweight is pretty flat - a few pounds over just doesn’t add much risk, while a few pounds under does add some risk.