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“Nurses at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Tacoma [WA] say that since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, they’ve seen many more ICE detainees come to the hospital as patients — always accompanied by two ICE agents acting as guards.

“The nurses allege that these agents have repeatedly ignored practices safeguarding patients’ privacy, health, and safety, including by refusing to leave detainees’ rooms during catheter changes, shackling a detainee so tightly to a bed they caused nerve damage to the person’s hand, and refusing to wear required masks and gowns in rooms where patients had communicable diseases.

“The nurses say they’ve asked hospital administrators to intervene, to no avail.”

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

None of this is OK, but if they refuse to wear masks around TB patients then maybe the problem will sort itself out eventually....

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 hour ago

... Wait. They won't wear masks when asked to, but will all the rest of the time when asked not to? Wtf kind of logic is that? (I know, the fault is that I'm trying to apply logic, but I found that part of the infuriating scenario kind of funny)

[–] NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Don't let the fact that this comes as a surprise to absolutely no one detract from the importance of reporting on it anyway.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

I think the bar is lower here like they should start with not emptying a full clip on random people