America's Stunningly Overpriced Healthcare System In 2 Charts

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90. I'm leaving as soon as I can

I don't know how it was back then, but at the small, rural hospitals it is really, really shocking behind the scenes.

We have a do nothing/know nothing lab manager who manages by bullying and covert threats. She makes a point of letting new hires know that she is married to a high powered lawyer and has the good lab assistants terrified of being fired because the lab chain owns almost every lab within commuting distance. Most of the good lab assistants are either gone or burned out or have wrecked backs from 13-14 hour shifts.

We have a pothead among our lab assistants who keeps her job by being a snitch for the lab manager. I can't tell you how many tubes she's mislabeled. The worst was the night she mislabeled and mis-ordered what was supposed to be a stat for a young man with a pulmonary embolism. I was the lucky tech who got the irate call from the doctor looking for results. Took an hour just to find the tube...

We have an alcoholic lead chemistry tech who came to work tipsy every day for weeks after her daughter was walked out of admin.

We had a porn addict tech that they protected for a year before finally firing him.

I've rarely seen such poor morale or piss-poor performance in any work environment. I just got hired back part time at the job I was doing while in school. As soon as I can make a living at it, I'm gone from the hospital environment for good. Shame to waste the education, and sad that I'm now saddled with a lifetime of debt for it, but I'd rather be dead than stay in that hellhole!