"Doctors and physicians are regular people, which means some of them really suck at their jobs (treating your health). Don’t ignore that feeling if you think you might have a bad doctor. There’s nothing wrong with consulting multiple professionals."
"Used to work at FedEx ground. Pack your sh#t like it’s gonna get dropped off a cliff. Package handlers do not care if your box says fragile or has orientation arrows. Stuff it with whatever, packing peanuts, expanding foam, bubble wrap. Pack. Your. Sh#t. Or even better pack that box and put a bigger box around it. They will toss your shi#, put heavy stuff on top of it. Use it as a step stool to reach higher boxes.
Pack. Your. Sh#t."
"As a software engineer, I avoid internet-connected ‘smart’ home stuff. I don’t need some internet random gaining access to my security cameras."
"Allow a pet to fly as checked luggage. I haven’t witnessed any mistreatment of animals during loading or unloading, but the whole process is generally stressful for them and most don’t look very comfortable."
"Historian here. Label everything.
Meta data is your friend. Always better to add too much information rather than have too little. Label the backs of your photographs. Write clearly. For the love of all that is holy WRITE CLEARLY!"
"Don’t volunteer info to anyone that you haven’t solicited to assist you.
Not the cops.
Not your employer.
Not your vacation plans on FB.
Information will be used against you, limit your exposure."
"Going on a date and notifying a friend or family member where I am and who I’m with. I work in law enforcement"
"Bad friends. ER doc. The amount of people that hang out with the wrong people and end up paying the price is astounding. I teach my kids – whatever your friends do to other people, they will eventually do to you."
"Not all confidential/anonymous surveys are as confidential/anonymous as you think."
"Brachycephalic dogs. Pugs, bulldogs, frenchies, all of them. I don’t understand why we keep making them."
"Always always always argue a claim denied by health insurance. They will arbitrarily reject claims with no justification."
"End of life treatment. Good God, why anyone chooses to be a breathing corpse is beyond me. Whether on machines or due to oxygen interruptions, there is no quality of life… support. Give it the ol’ college try, and if I don’t respond in the first 10 minutes, peace out cub scout.
That’s not to say I won’t take end of life CARE. If I’m 90 and still won’t throw in the towel, I still want help eating and cleaning myself. But the day i stop responding to the world around me, just give me a solid Kevorkian and free up bed space for the next poor schmuck."
"Wearing contacts in the shower/pool/any body of water. Worked as an ophthalmic photographer in Pittsburgh for seven years. College students were coming in with ulcers and amoeba in their corneas from swimming in their contacts and then sleeping in them for days."
"Don’t build or buy a house in a floodplain or near a stream."
"Going outside without sunscreen on my face if nowhere else. I’m a Pathology resident and the amount of ears, noses, lips and other chunks of face I see that surgeons have chopped off due to skin cancers caused by sun damage is sobering. Please in the name of all that’s good an holy find a daily sunscreen that works for you and wear it."
"Don’t buy into cleanses and detoxes, your body does this with organs, lol. Specifically lungs, skin, liver and kidneys. Take whatever supplements you want, but the body still needs those organs to get toxins out."
"I am a professional caregiver in an assisted living facility. I will definitely drive off a cliff before being locked in a memory care unit for dementia or Alzheimer’s disease."
"Texting/emailing anything negative to anyone I work with about anything.
I work in HR."
"Not setting boundaries for your child/ren – daycare worker"
"Don’t be an @$$hole to anyone in customer service – from retail to sales and food service – I worked in retail for many, many years. These folks are just trying to get by and aren’t responsible for whatever is that got you all upset in the first place. In fact, simply being nice to them in a difficult situation can more times than not actually work out in your favor as they may sympathize/empathize with you."
"Verbal confirmations. Always get it in writing via an email, a text, carrier pigeon, a letter I don’t care get it in writing!"
"After working as a paralegal at an insurance defense firm, DO NOT TAKE ANY HELICOPTER TOURS. At least in Hawaii, a lot of the helicopters aren’t well maintained and there are a surprising amount of crashes they manage to keep quiet. One of the evidence exhibits I helped put together for one case was a picture the family had taken in front of the helicopter before they boarded it and were all killed when it crashed. That was almost 20 years ago and that one sticks with me."
"Avoid Chiropractors- as a medical practitioner I have heard of (although never personally seen) horrific, permanent damage come about from their ‘manipulations’"
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#10 aren't they making themselves, kind of?
#22 "paralegal" sounds to me like "paraplegic, but in law"