u/diegosdiamond

I find something interesting about this whole lore that I haven’t seen people talk about (to be fair I’m not on here too terribly often).

I find it interesting that although he’s vindicated as a victim of the excavator incident, he got carried away and took it further than he needed to for clout, sympathy, money, etc. I’m not saying he’s not a victim, but I can’t seem to wrap my head around how $140K of your medical bills have gotten paid, and have no i clue from where or who it came from… if you’re going to accuse David of not contributing to your medical bills, I would hope you’ve reviewed your itemized medical bills in their entirety to be able to produce the receipts to corroborate that. To blame it on some person who worked for him and who allegedly “lied to him” doesn’t make sense, because what would be the motive?

Also, I’ve seen nobody talk about how he and Tana Mongeau at one point were literally thick as thieves… it almost seemed like she was a permanent co-host on his podcast at one point…

But ever since he cornered her on his podcast by bringing on that other guy (that nobody cares about) to confront her about some petit baby shit drama at some influencer event… without her prior knowledge… you know damn well Tana felt betrayed by someone she rode for, and publicly defended from David Dobrik. And that’s the moment you never saw Tana and him interact, and his views and subs immediately started to decline (check the social blade, I tracked all of this and the timelines aligned).

He’s lucky Tana is a better person. But I think the real shxtty character in the story was Jeff all along.

David had all the money, resources, and attorneys to always win. He just waited until the perfect time to corner Jeff with an ultimatum backed by sufficient evidence to lead to this post. And once it happened… Jeff knows damn well he had no choice but to back down.

And now left with a dying podcast, and no friends.

In the words of the great philosopher, Jojo Siwa:

KArMaS a BxTcH, I shoulda known BeTtEr 💫

Ill try to keep this as short as I can, but I want to include all the pertinent context to best explain where I’ve been conflicted.

So I’ve recently transitioned from med/surg to ER. During my orientation/preceptorship I was working alongside another RN, and at this point I was getting close to the end of my program, so I was pretty much working independently, and the RN I was with was just around as a resource to me in case I had any questions or needed help.

I had a patient who was ordered an IV gtt of Flagyl. For as long as I’ve been practicing, I’ve ALWAYS hung intermittent IV abx as a piggyback. Although I’ve continued this practice, I noticed nobody in the ER ever ran secondary lines. Typically I don’t get involved with how others nurses practice and I just worry about myself and doing the right thing, so I just continued what, as far as I knew, was the standard of practice.

when this RN was going through to see each patient, he questioned why I hung a secondary line for the abx. I explained that’s what the standard is for intermittent IV infusions. I assumed that was a standard thing everyone should at least know. He proceeded to “raise the concern” of the risk of fluid overloading the patient (mind you, I run a primary line at a KVO rate 20cc/hr with vtbi of 100cc). This patient was not a CHF or renal patient. Once he told me that, and I proceeded to explain my rationale he mentions how some of the Doctors are particular about the fluid status of their patients. which I then responded with the fact it was literally written IN THE ORDER the doctor entered to administer it “IVPB.” It became obvious to me that he didn’t understand how IVPB drops work.

I know for a fact I literally did nothing wrong, but he wasn’t satisfied with my explanation, and then a few days later I get called into the office with the nursing educator and the department manager, because apparently they received reports from a preceptor that I “wasn’t receptive to feedback,” and that I needed to be open to hearing from experienced nurses, because the ER doesn’t operate in the same way as med/surg… and that we have to prioritize working efficiently and preserve resources… because “what if we got peds patient who needed the 250mL NS bags..” I proceeded to explain to them in the same way I did the preceptor, and I also added the importance of dosing meds completely, and how meds in a 50cc bag would not completely infuse if you don’t ivpb it. and the nurse manager herself tells me that there’s other ways to ensure the completion of the entire infusing by taking a flush to clear the line(which I’ve never done that before and wouldn’t even know how).

What shocked me the most was how she blatantly said out loud that I didn’t need to follow the doctors orders… I wish I had recorded this interaction.

I know that it might not be a HUGE deal to many nurses, but I still feel like I’m doing something wrong every time I hang a med…. What would you all do in this situation?

My thots on a the Jeff Wittek situation…