Standing up to something in the moment, individually...is really hard and can actually be rather embarrassing. If you found you kept your mouth shut or laughed

Standing up to something in the moment, individually...is really hard and can actually be rather embarrassing. If you found you kept your mouth shut or laughed along at something so as to avoid social awkwardness, that doesn't mean you failed. You still have the opportunity to right things. Reach out to an colleague for moral support. To quote pervocracy: """ When I worked on an ambulance (this is my personal "one time in band camp"), we were at a nursing home, dropping a patient off after a routine transport, when we saw something disturbing. A nurse was giving liquid medication to another patient who was clearly choking on it. The patient was gagging horribly, the nurse was holding his head in place and forcing the oral syringe down his throat even as he was thrashing and making drowning noises, and after she finished she walked away even though he was coughing up medication all over his pillow. My work partner and I saw this, and, with that creeped out feeling of "did I just see what I think I saw?" and "something's not right," we... left and took another call and went off to the hospital. Then we grabbed some lunch. Then one of us--I don't even remember which one--blurted it out. "That thing at the nursing home... you saw that too, right? That was kind of fucked up, right?" Those two sentences started the chain of events that lead to us filing a formal elder abuse report. """ http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2012/07/just-one-ally.html?m=1 http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2012/07/just-one-ally.html?m=...