A recent TikTok craze involves medical workers broadcasting their heartbroken responses to their patients’ deaths. Doctors and nurses are participating in this trend.
After one of her patients passed away, a nurse said that “it never gets easier,” and a veterinarian who had “lost four patients to preventable things” drew attention to the high suicide rates in his field.
Although the fad is meant to draw attention to the mental challenges faced by US healthcare professionals, several films have drawn fierce criticism.
Users on Twitter criticized them, calling them “awful” and “a strange flex.” Others criticized them, saying they “thought their lives was a movie.”
‘Makes me feel terrible – this is the future we are producing… the world is truly f***** up,’ one social media user said.
People believe that their lives are films, another person added.
One user wrote, “If I pass away at your hospital, please don’t use my passing as leverage on TikTok.”
Tens of millions of people have already seen the trend’s videos on the social networking site.
Twitter users criticized the recent TikTok craze in which medical personnel posted response videos to their patients’ fatalities.
After she “lost a patient,” registered nurse Olivia Vanderford claimed “it never gets easier.”
Her video received more than 1.5 million likes and 20,000 comments.
Her response video drew mockery from one user who said, “First thing I’d do is build a TikTok as well,” and criticism from another who called her out for having “no shame.”
The possibility of losing a patient, though, concerns her. Nevertheless, others applauded her for her bravery, and one viewer stated it was her “goal to work in a medical profession.”
Tramone’ Zy’yai Hester, a veterinary student, captured the moment he buried his head in his hands after losing four patients on camera.
I love what I do and I wouldn’t choose an other professional path, but our industry has one of the worst suicide rates, and we are all overworked every day, he wrote in the title of the video he uploaded to TikTok.
Some people praised him for caring for animals, while others criticized his video for having “this cringy, contrived reaction.”