thefoxwithremorse:

justsomeantifas:

also, lmao ERs treat drug addicts so bad that it harms fucking everyone.

Like, I had recently had surgery, left the hospital I had surgery at because I felt better, 7 hours later turns out I had an infection, could have died, and was in excruciating pain. I get to the ER, my dad tells them what happened, and that I needed pain medication, and let me tell you, I’ve been hit by a car, this pain was 10 times worse than having your tailbone broken but constant. 

So they check me in, and take an hour and a half to get to me. It wasn’t busy there, I remember distinctly it wasn’t busy, they even said it wasn’t busy. It took them an hour and a half of me in this horrible pain for them to read my file and figure out I had an infection and could die, so finally then did they give me pain medications.

Because as soon as you go into the ER asking for pain meds, you’re automatically an addict in their eyes. And this is bullshit for two reasons:

1) addicts are still suffering and deserve medical treatment, especially when it’s that severe

2) this drastically harms people who suffer from chronic illness/chronic pain/infections/anything really

They hate addicts so much they’re willing to let disabled people suffer in agony for hours, because they just don’t care, whats it to them if an addict is suffering for hours? 

[reminder you can die from withdrawal, so they should fucking be treating addicts just as seriously as anyone else]

You really think that these asshats who took the Hippocratic Oath would really exemplify such, like legitimately. These people swear to not cause undue harm or pain but instead we have a culture of demonetization and this often happens when we can’t relate to another humans.

We don’t see the struggle until we feel the struggle and that is sad, especially in such a bloody field.