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This isn't limited to ERs. I have a close friend that works as a nurse at Stanford (not in the ER) and the treatment they have to endure there is insane. Patien
by omfgwhat 7y ago
This isn't limited to ERs. I have a close friend that works as a nurse at Stanford (not in the ER) and the treatment they have to endure there is insane. Patients have punched her, spit on her, asked her for sexual favors, massages, and the list goes on. Worse, Stanford wants their nurses to treat patients like hotel guests which makes matters worse. The staff has no recourse when patients act this way. Seeing all of the sexual harassment backlash in Silicon Valley makes me wonder why it hasn't applied to places like hospitals - it's as if this treatment is expected and hospitals are immune because they're seen as a last resort for sick people. Where else do you send them?
- golemiprague 7y agoThere was no sexual harassment backlash in silicon valley because there was no a particular sexual harassment issue in silicon valley which probably the safest industry for women to work. What happened in silicon valley was that women didn't want to put the time and effort to become good programmers, partly because of lack of interest and partly because they didn't deem the geeks as a cool group to hang up with. But then they realised those geeks are making a lot of money and on the way changing the world so they tried to jump on the bandwagon in the only way they know, shaming. The funny thing, it still doesn't work for them because you still need to put the time and effort and to take the risks and to build companies from the ground, so they prefer to be nurses or doctors where there is much more sexual harassment but they couldn't care less because that's not what it was all about in the first place.
- cm2187 7y agoPresumably the people making those offenses aren’t educated computer science students (referring to the parallel with the Sillicon Valley).