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This is literally an article about police arresting the person who committed this crime. Who's not doing shit and what advocacy is OP providing beyond self-flagellation because terrible criminals exist?
The state of Uttar Pradesh has 240 MILLION people. That's one state that's 2/3 the size of the entire United States.
Posting articles like this and proclaiming conclusions about it is like posting that someone somewhere in the US did this and therefore the entire United States is complicit.
Are you in the habit of seeking out and sharing nothing but news stories about the rapists and criminals in your community? Yes, that behavior is a little pathological.
I was being hyperbolic; I thought that would be obvious.
not nearly as easily or quickly as they can move staffing agencies in the current climate
You and I must work in very different current climates.
You didn't personally experience that anecdote (and it's also just an anecdote). Show me a NURSING union that protects people who are dangers to that level. We don't because it's not our professional culture, so it's not how we run our unions. The president of the Massachusetts Nurses Association is still a practicing nurse. She has no personal or professional interest in protecting nurses who are genuinely dangerous.
I also have 20 years experience in management prior to becoming a nurse, including quality, safety and accident investigation experience. One accident doesn't prove that an employee is bad, no matter how much damage it cost. Systemic errors exist. Was that guy being impatient because management was on his ass to do more and more with less and less support? Holding him to an impossible schedule like they do the rail workers? How was he able to have his truck in a situation like that in the first place? Did he bypass safety signalling/communication, or did the signaling/communication policies not exist in the first place? If that driver was genuinely a dangerous employee and had no prior disciplinary action, then that's a management failure to document concerning actions in the past. None of that has anything to do with the union and the union was right to stick to the letter of the contract.
And policing needs to be reformed top to bottom. Union protection alone is not sufficient to create the culture of abusive power that exists in modern policing. That requires the full complicity of our legislative and judicial branches. (See: "tough on crime" politicians and SCOTUS shielding cops from accountability and responsibility.)
Pelvises that can accommodate both upright walking AND the size of human brains without, you know, killing the humans during birth.
I think that's going to be difficult to determine because we also are much better at diagnosing these things now. My grandfather had colon cancer requiring a full ileostomy at age 50, and it was only in retrospect after sooooo many younger members of our family were diagnosed with Crohn's that we realized his lifelong GI problems and young age colon cancer were probably a life of undiagnosed and untreated Crohn's.
And the further complicating factor of the increasing numbers of young people getting colon cancer these days for reasons we still haven't determined.
The most acute brain shit responded beautifully to 9 months of high dose IV steroids, thank God. The rest of the shit, I have a patchwork of treatments that have improved my symptoms enough to keep me minimally functional, but not back to where I was before all this happened. (Tl;dr - in addition to autoimmune encephalitis, I jokingly call it hipster Long Covid. I got "Long Covid" before Covid was cool, aka ME/CFS)
Mayo is definitely one of the right places for you to go. Just keep hammering on it.
Yeah I'm sorry you're going through all this. Believe me, I know all too well that feeling of insecurity when you're in healthcare facility limbo. Ration your strength, but keep pushing on them. These obstacles can be cleared.
And I was literally insane back when I was playing this game trying to get seen at Mass General autoimmune neurology. (Psychosis from an autoimmune brain condition.)
You can get through this.
Get on the cancellation list anyway; just tell them you need more than 24 hours notice. Call them and explain that your symptoms are causing severe weight loss and see what they can do for you.The big facilities are very willing to work with people who come in from a distance.
My family all receive our care at Cleveland Clinic, which is 4 hours from my mom's house and 6 hours from my sister. They've worked with us a lot. They've squeezed us in before. I'm sure Mayo is used to dealing with the same kind of situations.
Crock Pot, skinless chicken thighs, bottled sauce of your choice, frozen veggies of your choice, cook until chicken is done.
Chicken thighs are the cheapest chicken meat and changing up the flavor of sauce and blend of veggies makes it feel like completely different meals.
Serve over rice or pasta, depending on which kind of sauce you used.