Wear a helmet when you ride your bike. Look both ways before crossing the street. Be extremely careful when frying food in hot oil. There are plenty of things we do every single day that could end in tragedy if we ignore the safety rules seared into our brains. But there are also some things that you should probably just avoid point-blank, unless you want to take a trip to the hospital.
Healthcare workers on TikTok and Threads have recently been discussing activities that they would never let their loved ones partake in, due to what they’ve seen. We hope this list doesn’t unlock new fears in you, pandas, but it is a good reminder to always take your safety seriously. Good luck making it through to the end, and be sure to upvote the warnings that you think more people should hear!
#41
Go to a hospital owned by HCA or ascension. Or any hospital owned by a corporation for that. You are there to be a profit. Nobody cares about you except for your nurse who is overworked and underpaid and certainly has an unsafe patient load.
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21points
#42
Trauma nurse here, I’d agree with the donorcycle theme. The quickest, most critical trauma I’ve ever had was a donorcycle down. The pedal took out his abdominal organs and left them on the highway.
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21points
#44
Psychologist here - no sleepovers!
mentallyawbused:
Be careful where you send your kids with, unless you know the family personally but even then it’s risky because majority of cases are from people they’re close with. My mom would let me sleep over my best friends house only because she was a single mother. No men around.
missjp.30:
I worked as a forensic nurse, no sleep overs. And just what I witnessed boys are not protected, even if the law is involved.
mentallyawbused:
Be careful where you send your kids with, unless you know the family personally but even then it’s risky because majority of cases are from people they’re close with. My mom would let me sleep over my best friends house only because she was a single mother. No men around.
missjp.30:
I worked as a forensic nurse, no sleep overs. And just what I witnessed boys are not protected, even if the law is involved.
19points
#45
Pharmacist who’s worked in the ED at a level 2 trauma center. I have several:
- No motorcycles or activities you’d do at Glamis. A bike may stop, but the eyeballs keep going.
- Don’t get stupid drunk. Maybe no alcohol at all.
- Don’t stick an arm into an industrial dryer before it’s stopped rotating—sheets and towels will wrap around it and essentially twist it off.
- Always be aware of where your eye is in relation to an agave plant or trim the ends of your agave.
- No motorcycles or activities you’d do at Glamis. A bike may stop, but the eyeballs keep going.
- Don’t get stupid drunk. Maybe no alcohol at all.
- Don’t stick an arm into an industrial dryer before it’s stopped rotating—sheets and towels will wrap around it and essentially twist it off.
- Always be aware of where your eye is in relation to an agave plant or trim the ends of your agave.
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19points
#46
My dad (paramedic ) we weren’t allowed to do a lot of things lol. Nothing that goes fast, trampolines, wear a hair tie on my wrist, swim at anyone’s house, no feet on the dash, never drove behind log trucks. The list goes on.
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18points
#48
Be in a car without a seatbelt. And making sure babies are properly strapped in a car seat, many leave the straps too loose.
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18points
#49
When you get your blood drawn for lab work, insist on having the phlebotomist/nurse/tech label it with your name RIGHT THEN AND THERE. You’d be appalled at the unlabeled and mislabeled specimens the lab receives. At best, you have to have your lab work repeated. Worst case: your results are filed under someone else’s name.
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18points
#50
Eat a fruit roll up that's rolled up. Let's just say if a kid gets choked, it's almost impossible to get an airway.
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17points
#54
Cardiac sonographer here - not let parents think sudden cardiac arrest couldn’t happen to their kid just because a doc (or urgent care) signed off on that sports physical. Every kid who has [passed away] from SCA had a sports physical on file.
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14points
#56
Be a full code. For context, my dad is a PA who taught me about code status when I was young. So I’ve been DNR/DNI since I was in my 20s. And then I worked in the ICU and now I try to educate everyone in my life to what being a full code actually means.
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11points
#58
Social Worker- We will not own a pool ( I need to be present when you go swimming), my house will not be near a pond, No co sleeping, No sleepovers at others houses. No joining youth groups. Alarms on my doors Button Batteries Gone!
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9points
#60
Pharmacy Tech - let adhd meds be a LAST resort. Especially for your child.
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-6points
