Strict Masters at Milford Regional Adopt Patient and Visitor Code of Conduct
How they tame 'em patients at a regional teaching hospital in MA
You, patient. Yes, you. Don’t make us repeat twice. We have a Code of Conduct for you that you need to abide by. What are you mumbling there from behind your mask? We can’t hear you. We don’t have to hear you though, so it’s fine. We are the Master, we are the Machine. Our role is to write the rules—your rules—and your role is to listen and comply.
What, why? You are asking too many questions, patient. Watch it now. You are misbehaving, aren’t you? You are trouble, aren’t you? Calm yourself down promptly, patient. We don’t have to serve you. You will get a boot (and possibly a flogging) for this kind of deviant behavior, patient. Know your lane. Remember who’s the boss. Get it now? Are you sure? If so, good boy.
(Mr. Factchecker, this was my creative interpretation of a very serious document created by a very serious medical facility to establish an atmosphere of good service and care. Just to be clear, they are doing this for our own good, everyone knows that, and I did not intend to mislead in any way! And for the record, Mr. Factchecker. I think it’s great to keep the pesky patients in their lane! After all, it’s the erroneous idea of personal choice and the so called “dignity” that is to blame!)
Anyway, taking it from the horse’s mouth (and also see the screenshot):
Milford Regional Medical Center has adopted a new Patient and Visitor Code of Conduct. The new code is intended to establish an expectation of respectful behavior from patients and visitors in order to provide for a secure, caring and inclusive atmosphere throughout the Milford Regional system.
This measure is in response to the growing number of acts of violence and aggressive behavior toward healthcare workers across the state and throughout the nation.
SOURCE (h/t Dr. Mary Bowden)
Now, what does it all mean in practical terms? Is this aimed at genuine violent nut jobs? Methinks, no. The problem of violent nut jobs is not solved with “diversity and inclusion” declarations or lobby signs.
In practical terms, if a woman wants to see a gynecologist who is a fellow female, then what? Oh, and what are those “other personal traits” they are talking about? Bad breath? A lack of curiosity? A Pfizer tattoo?
Jokes aside, it is certainly possible that the hospital admins are cluelessly trying to please the Political Correctness Lord. It is possible that most people working for that hospital system are saints and the nicest people in the world (if you have ever been a patient there, please leave a comment with your thoughts!) What I am lamenting here, however, is the intentional destruction of the cultural premise that “the customer” has a choice he doesn’t have to explain to the business. Just a choice.
I am lamenting—very passionately—he resurrection of the almighty “Soviet cashier,” and the establishment of the new dictatorship of the unhealed. I’ve lived through it. It sucks. It’s not a happy place for anyone but the petty tyrant—and frankly, even the tyrant, underneath all the sadism, is pretty sad.
But wait, there is more to this tale. It is our sad reality that more and more people, especially among the youngest adults who are just entering the workforce now, are neurodivergent af. They are so messed up that everything to them feels like an attack. There are many contributing factors to that, without a doubt. But what if they are neurodivergent because they are sick in a physical way? And what if they are sick because their food has been poisoned, their bodies have been subjected to EMFs galore from birth, and their arms have been injected with too many not-so-great vaccines? And what if somewhere down the line (a manufacturing line?) those vaccine have been contaminated with one of the bugs that contribute to neurological issues and autism? And what if the jumpy victims of the Machine aren’t in one piece—but they don’t know why, they just know that even the slightest deviation from their preference feels like an attack? What if that is a part of what we are dealing with, in a karmic civilizational way?
Anyway, those pesky patient better better get in line.
On a side note, in Moscow, they are now planning to literally record all outpatient visits (h/t Riley). Anonymously, of course. For the benefit of my fellow Russians, of course. We should all trust all our governments. They always keep their promises. Even a child knows.
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Getting to the point that I would rather die than see a doctor. Just kidding, sort of. But seriously need to stay the hell away from hospitals!
The hospitals around my area are all doing this. It is a blatantly abusive tactic. Hospitals are not targets of violence any more than other locations or entities, certainly not more than all-night convenience stores in deep-urban areas. This tactic deviously projects the faux-accusation and nasty insinuation that anyone acting like a normal, adult, human being in the face of condescending authoritarianism must be "tagged" for intervention with force. It is a grossly-illegitimate manipulation of human interaction by a shielded and powerful entity.
BEWARE, medical systems can label any man or woman within a widely-shared system of institutional snitching -- label them without due process -- and can thus constrain dignified access, or even deny access completely to Citizens unjustly deemed punishable by the Authoritarian System.