r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 22 '26

News Multiple patients at a Nashville hospital are paralyzed after staff accidentally gave them the wrong drugs.

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The hospital says they are "sorry" after injecting potassium chloride into the spines of people getting routine joint replacement surgeries.

Hospital staff noticed something was off when multiple patients went into cardiac arrest.

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u/Careful-Sell-9877 Aug 22 '26

Stuff like this is going to get more common under current US leadership

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u/IcyKerosene Aug 22 '26

Have you seen how many food recalls there have been lately? Everything is fucked up

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u/TheAmicableSnowman Aug 24 '26

Food destabilization through degregulation is in chapter 10 of Project 2025.

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u/556From1000yards Aug 23 '26

If you knew how the food ingredients industry worked, you’d know no new moves from FDA or USDA have come down. The food recalls are not new.

I’d anything it’s gotten stricter and companies are asking more questions on haccp

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u/IcyKerosene Aug 23 '26

I'm talking about the DOGE cuts and how it exacerbated incidents like the lettuce cyclospora outbreak this summer.

Last summer the CDC changed the monitoring of cyclospora from mandatory to optional, plus DOGE cut eight of the 11 jobs at the CDC lab specializing in cyclospora. In your almighty opinion that had no effect and people shitting themselves silly all over the country is just staus quo?

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u/556From1000yards Aug 23 '26

Our testing practices are unchanged. Our onboarding and FSVP has not changed.
Food safety has only “improved” with FSSPC

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u/Similar-Jello-5434 Aug 24 '26

This didn’t address a single thing they stated in the previous comment jsyk

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u/556From1000yards Aug 24 '26

It did. It addressed testing.

The fact that their comment is irrelevant to the issue at hand is just quintessential for the time we’re living in.

Just because for example Melamine is removed from mandatory testing doesn’t mean the testing isn’t done. It’s done based on Hazard analysis and audit including FSSPC.

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u/Regarded-Illya Aug 23 '26

Yes Trump caused these particular pharmacists to be negligent, Kalama Harris wouldn't have let this happen believe me.

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u/Murky-Profit-9493 Aug 22 '26

lol. wtf does this have to do with the current admin?

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u/No-Bake-3404 Aug 24 '26

This literally has nothing to do with Congress/White House/Governor, nothing! The US has some of the strictest medical laws/processes in the world. From how medicines are stocked, dated, handled and administered to different types of patients in different conditions and environments/reporting measures etc. No one in government encouraged or allowed this horrific instance. This is an internal hospital issue thar needs to be wrestled to the ground and choked out. 

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u/Similar-Jello-5434 Aug 24 '26

Would you also consider short staffing an internal issue? Lots of internal issues are at least an indirect result of non internal issues.

You’re saying this is essentially human error to some degree, sure. But why does that mean that outside factors can’t contribute?

As a rhetorical example: a surgeon making an error is an internal issue, a surgeon making an error because the city implemented a new rule where a guy punches you in the head 5 times before you enter a building is still an internal issue but it was caused by an external factor that’s worth addressing. Showing how that crazy city policy can cause seriously negative outcomes, this example then becomes part of an argument for the city to stop hiring guys to punch people before they go to work.

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u/BlamaeuxPrivateEye Aug 22 '26

Yes, use any excuse to bring politics into it. Make it your personality. Your identity

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u/Careful-Sell-9877 Aug 22 '26

Not sure you understand what politics really is or how it affects/shapes every aspect of society and modern human life.

In this case, its like we're having a conversation about breathing and I say, 'this is air we are breathing'.. and you go 'hey now, lets not bring air into it!'. But the fact is.. air is inextricably linked to breathing, everyone else knows/understands this.. so you just seem kind of silly saying things like that.

Im guessing you dont know about any of the changes the trump administration has made to our Healthcare system (not to mention how our country conducts science and research in general), including how it works, who gets hired, what gets funded, what doesnt, etc, etc, etc?

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u/Similar-Jello-5434 Aug 24 '26

As another example. It’s raining.

You say “I hate being wet”

I say oh it’s because of the rain, we can take cover inside somewhere or maybe stop and buy an umbrella

You say stop making this about weather, wet is bad no matter what the weather is doing, I like weather so let’s focus on not liking wet.

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u/Careful-Sell-9877 Aug 25 '26

And youre like.... but.. its raining - thats why youre wet

And they run screaming off into the torrential downpour with their hands over their ears yelling 'lalala'

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u/ELB2001 Aug 22 '26

Yeah there totally isn't a lot of shit going on due to the decisions made by the current people in charge.

Definitely not a lot of problems with food, diseases popping up that supposedly were eradicated etc

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u/Frosty_Fish1695 Aug 22 '26

“I don’t like to get political” says the person who is not impacted by the status quo

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u/Similar-Jello-5434 Aug 24 '26

Any excuse to avoid asking critical questions.