A hospital It is a gigantic entity in which thousands of people work. Although each one has its figures depending on the size and type of center, the truth is that for their gear to work perfectly they require enormous templates. Users tend to remember especially doctors and nurses and maintenance and cleaning or administrative staff, but there are many more. essential jobs.
Thus, surgeons, internists, radiologists, pharmacists and kitchen staff are also joined by crucial positions such as psychologists, social workers, anesthetists or orderlies. The latter have historically been surrounded by clichés because many only see them as employees who push stretchers and wheelchairs.
To vindicate precisely his work, a operating room orderly Murcia has a powerful account in TikTok (@acho_abelino) in which he tells his day to day life. He recently uploaded a video to respond to the eternal myth that “the guard does nothing”, which is something he is constantly told, and his interesting reflection has already exceeded 230,000 views in just five days.
“The doctor does not push the bed”
“The operating room attendants are in charge of picking you up from the room and taking you to the surgical area,” he says, ironically saying that reality is not like the series “and here the doctor does not push the bed». Thus, he emphasizes that once there, patients stay with a nurse and anesthetist and that when they are notified they come back in to position the patient on the operating room table for surgery. When this is over, they appear again to transfer the newly operated patient to the resuscitation room.
Acho highlights in his video that in addition all that work “is also our work and our role moving pharmacy orders, checking and collecting analysis results, biopsies… Their list of tasks does not end here and they add that they are also in charge of “moving the different devices used in the operating rooms.”
“We take care of waste control, we take care of the preoperative and post-surgical tests that patients need,” he says, who decides to end his video with a totally ironic tone and stating that “indeed “the operating room attendant does nothing” and that he is possibly forgetting other duties that correspond to him.
The video has been highly applauded among colleagues in the profession. “The guards and assistants are the ones who work the most and are the least valued,” laments a certain Mile, while Gema, a doctor, confesses that “I spend half of my shift looking for guards. They are essential!». “I’m a nurse and I always say that the hospital is run by the guards,” says a certain Carmen, while Mónica added that “the cleaners are also invisible in the hospital.”
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