Dancing Medics

So that really tells you something doesn't it wouldnt have been able to work in 70s if me and my colleagues were scared of cockroaches especially doing night shift. Used to take bets on how many we would encounter on a 12 hr shift.
Oh happy days

My first time in hospital for two weeks with severe asthma as a fifteen year old I woke up to find a cockroach on my bed I cried hysterically ( which exasperated my asthma) and rang the bell. The ward sister told me not to be a baby and stop making a fuss about nothing, I have had an absolute irrational fear of cockroaches ever since.

Yes yes to Flytothestars post.

Friend in A&E for many years said that humour kept her and her colleagues going. Anything that makes you smile as you slip into the pits of despond is ok by me. To those who say that nurses and doctors should not behave like this, that it shows disrespect I say pooh bah, everyone deserves the space to let themselves be happy especially when so much death surrounds them. If it helps them mentally, support and love them for what they do and try not to criticise.

Yep but what a can of worms that would open so not going to go there.Im not that bored .....yet

Yep I agree I was thinking of starting a thread about "remember the hospitals in the 70's" we had cockroaches

Now THAT would be some thread eh?

Thank goodness not everyone on here is condemning the dancing medics.

Here's a doctor's point of view

metro.co.uk/2020/04/24/spirits-need-lifting-stop-shaming-nhs-tik-toks-12605127/

Yep I agree I was thinking of starting a thread about "remember the hospitals in the 70's" we had cockroaches

Oh and another note about the "good old days" when apparently they were all angels cut from a different cloth. Hospitals had ON SITE bars up until about 20yrs ago. There are many old school medics and nurses who thank their lucky stars that the antics they got up to on site weren't put on social media for prosperity back then!

At least the dancing medics we're seeing now are (hopefully) sober...

I agree good post notanan2

Notanan2
Well said in fact I wasnt going to read this thread again because I was so cross about the lack of understanding of why humans need humour but I'm glad I did. Thank you

notanan2 good post ??

I said to DH when the clapping started "oh dear! Every time the great british public put anyone on a pedistal it wont be long before they find a way to pull them down off it with a vigorous bang"

And the backlash didnt take long.

It was never the nurses or doctors claiming to be "heros" in the first place. The public are irrationally angry now if they dare to not live up to the title and act human.

They are damned if they do damned if they dont.

Staff have been abused for turning away donations as inappropriate or not needed, if staff dont show themselves "enjoying" their donations, there is anger.
If they do show themselves enjoying themselves there is anger.....

There is anger if peoples HCP professionals dont come to the door to be clapped at, then there is anger if they DO go out after/before shifts with their teams.

And FYI during the war places like the burns/plastics hospitals held dances on the wards and nurses were the patients dates! It wasnt all stoic then!

Flash mob type dances are always IMO cringy

But the public is being so fickle and nasty at the moment. Nobody is your "hero". If you want impossibly perfect dieties to worship take up praying. People are going to work to pay their bills. Most hope to do a good job in the process. NHS staff didnt start the claps or the rainbows. People wanted to see their "heros" on SM etc and now suddenly they dont!

The distasteful part is the public who want NHS staff to be something theyre not, then villify them when they give the public what they seemed to want a week ago.

Medics are making dance videos because they have little else to I..... only 40 patients in Nightingale Hospital so far I see, probably stops them getting bored.

I’m sorry to hear that your husband’s operation has been postponed again gillybob

I guess you were expecting it but it doesn’t make it any easier to accept, does it?

Not knowing how much longer he will have to wait must be so hard.

It is thought that we have reached the peak of virus cases though, so maybe things will improve before too long.

I can’t believe anyone would find it disrespectful. They are doing an incredible job. Let them have some light relief.

Yes, Chardy, I agree with you; thank you for putting it so succinctly.

I think I've said before that when my son was little he asked how someone in his class could be laughing when their sibling had died the week before. I explained about grief and about distraction. He understood.
Unless you nursed in a war zone (which I guessed you signed up for and been trained/prepared for), I doubt anyone can comprehend what some of these nurses have been through recently. I'm impressed that someone cared enough about their colleagues' mental health to organise it.

I send all my love out to those of you that have been affected by Covid19, be it the virus itself or the ripple effect. Some sad tales from Ellie, Gilly and others.

To have lost family, be living in fear of catching it or suffering because you cannot be treated for illness is truly awful.

My love and prayers also go to the many people who are daily putting themselves at risk that get little recognition.

Finally the medics, of course it is terrible that some are working tirelessly with seriously ill patients, I could not do their job and I keep them in my prayers too.
Not every medic is working directly with these patients,my neighbour is a nurse and spending her shifts doing very little by her own admission! So perhaps that is why do many have literally made a song and dance about it.

I will always remember as a little girl being in hospital watching the young and beautiful nurses with their intricate hats, immaculate uniforms and glamorous capes, they were like goddesses to me, I cannot imagine for one minute them dancing around the corridors!!
They were of a different era, I feel sad that we are now coming to the stage that there will be no nurses left who trained in those days and have that level of discipline and care.

My DH received a letter this week apologising for cancelling his operation that he has already waited almost 2 years for . This will be the 4th cancellation. He has been seriously ill as a result of the neglect which will have cost the NHS £thousands more than just doing the op in the first place . Not to mention the huge deterioration in his overall health .

I pity those who are seriously ill and in need of treatment or diagnosis . Meanwhile some of the nurses are learning dance routines. What are the doctors going I wonder ?

Yes Janet Street-Porter does have a point.

The effect on cancer patients has been mentioned in newspapers.
It must be agonising waiting endless weeks either for treatment or for a scan to find out if symptoms are cancer or not.

Then of course there are many other potential illnesses which are being ignored.

So sorry EllanVannin

I'm sorry to hear of your family tragedy EllanVannin I hope your grandson recovers soon.
I'm sure medical staff did all they could to help.

Exactly EllanVannin

I absolutely loathe the way everything is put on social media, but I'm not surprised it is.
As usual less isn't more with these things. Something is done, then everyone does it; making sure it's filmed, of course.