“Thanks for setting health checks back a decade.”

Workers at a California pressing care clinic misplaced their jobs after posing in a TikTookay video laughing at bodily fluids left behind by sufferers. The slideshow consisted of images with workers from the Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara smiling subsequent to moist spots left on the sterile paper overlaying examination tables.

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The TikToker deleted the video, however not quick sufficient.

Doctors and nurses mocking sufferers on TikTookay

The TikTookay video, initially posted by @angieuncut (now set to personal), included six images in a slideshow. The first was an innocuous group shot of employees in scrubs with a caption asking, “Are patients allowed to leave you guys gifts?”

The subsequent 5 had healthcare professionals posing, pointing, and making foolish faces subsequent to moist spots left on the examination tables. Captions continued, “yes, and we love them so much, all shades and opacities, make sure to leave your healthcare workers sweet gifts like these!”

@kelsey.bartley Oops! Did you attempt to delete this? @angieuncut #sansum #meangirls ♬ Blue Danube Waltz – London Symphony Orchestra

The video description learn, “Guess the substance!”

Discourse round healthcare employees speaking about their sufferers on social media, together with making enjoyable of them, has been a factor for years. The people at Sansum, nonetheless, discovered the road. Fellow TikTokers stitched and downloaded the video earlier than the OP may delete it, and the outrage quickly reached the bosses.

On Tuesday, Sutter Health posted a message on Instagram addressing the video, claiming that it took speedy motion to evaluate what occurred.

“The individual who posted the content is a former employee and was not employed with us at the time of the post,” the corporate harassed. “Any other staff shown are part of our internal investigation and are on administrative leave pending the results.”

A spokesperson instructed native information outlet KTLA 5 on Wednesday that Sutter fired all of them.

“Morally & ethically repugnant”

Though social media has been the place to make enjoyable of everybody since its creation, folks have little or no endurance when healthcare employees do it to the parents they need to be caring for. In 2019, nurse Danyelle Rose drew ire for imitating sufferers she accused of “faking it.”

The prevailing opinion continues to be, clearly, that such a habits is unacceptable.

On X, ER physician Josh Trebach wrote that “if you post a video on social media making fun of your patients body fluids you deserve to be fired and never see patients ever again.”

“When I was nursing, we tried to NEVER let the patient see their OWN fluids… it was part of keeping their dignity intact,” stated @TexasPatriot_27. “To put it on TT for the world to see is morally & ethically repugnant.”

On the Reddit discussion board r/TikTokCringe, folks fearful about what this can do to those that are already nervous about going to the physician.

“Great. Thanks for setting health checks back a decade,” joked u/InterestingWin3627. “F*cking idiots.”

“This is horrible. Even if it were a joke,” wrote u/Imstilllost2024. “Imagine people who struggle with social anxiety seeing this and never going in for a check up again because of watching this.”

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