This medical student is insufferable and the tweet is smarmy, but I read the wording as more schadenfreude than intentional injury.
Drawing blood is literally like threading a needle. You have to stick the tip of needle into the exact lumen of a vein that is under another layer of skin.
There's a much better chance that this medical student had to try twice because she sucks at it rather than anything being intentional.
In this case, I don't know if there's much difference between male and female doctors. Male doctors can be petty as well.
If a doctor/nurse finds their own incompetence amusing, they probably lack the kind of attitude and personality a doctor should have. Lowering the bar like this is how we get so many shitty medical professionals working against people.
It's impossible to sort out an accidental miss from an "accidental" miss without knowing the intent of the practitioner. For which the default and the strongly reinforced ideal is "don't hurt the patient", so accidents in difficult tasks can be accepted without malice.
Then there's the tweet, which whilst not explicitly stating it was purposeful is still way too close to an admission that they wanted them to suffer. Who knows if she actually did it deliberately or not, but she has now given patients cause to doubt any accidents that occur from here on out are without malice. The tweet alone is enough to break patient trust and her public reprimand is not only justified but necessary to undo the damage she did.
Unpopular opinion:
This medical student is insufferable and the tweet is smarmy, but I read the wording as more schadenfreude than intentional injury.
Drawing blood is literally like threading a needle. You have to stick the tip of needle into the exact lumen of a vein that is under another layer of skin.
There's a much better chance that this medical student had to try twice because she sucks at it rather than anything being intentional.
If a doctor/nurse finds their own incompetence amusing, they probably lack the kind of attitude and personality a doctor should have. Lowering the bar like this is how we get so many shitty medical professionals working against people.
It's impossible to sort out an accidental miss from an "accidental" miss without knowing the intent of the practitioner. For which the default and the strongly reinforced ideal is "don't hurt the patient", so accidents in difficult tasks can be accepted without malice.
Then there's the tweet, which whilst not explicitly stating it was purposeful is still way too close to an admission that they wanted them to suffer. Who knows if she actually did it deliberately or not, but she has now given patients cause to doubt any accidents that occur from here on out are without malice. The tweet alone is enough to break patient trust and her public reprimand is not only justified but necessary to undo the damage she did.
The wording is subtle, but important.
Like I said, phlebotomy is made to look easy by those who who are experienced in it.
"I missed his vein" coming out of the words of a medical student isn't hubris, it's incompetence.
But either way, I agree she was reveling in the outcome.
I'm defending this hard because it's important that our side stands for truth and doesn't stoop to hysterical, made-up narratives like our enemies do.
Celebrating someone's pain is evil enough.
Exaggerating and superimposing intentions that may or may not be there weakens our integrity and makes us no better than her.