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A patient last night said 'you can't fix the world, but you can fix your corner of it' and I finally get it.
I was venting about a broken system to a guy who's been in and out of the hospital for years, and he just shrugged and said that, which made me stop pushing for huge, impossible changes at work and start focusing on making my own 12-hour shifts a little better for the people in my care.
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william_harris14d ago
Oh man, Seth's take is so bleak. I mean, sure, if you look at it that way, we should all just stop doing laundry because the whole planet's a mess. But fixing your corner is literally how anything ever gets done, like cleaning one dish so you have a plate to eat off.
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seth_singh2014d ago
Honestly, that sounds like giving up with extra steps. Tbh, fixing your corner only works if everyone else is fixing theirs too, and they're clearly not. The whole system stays broken because we're all told to just mind our own small patch. Ngl, it feels like that advice just lets the people who broke the big things off the hook. We still gotta push for the huge changes, or nothing gets better for the next guy in that bed.
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