After Facing Immense Backlash For Their “Dehumanizing” And “Vile” Video, The Healthcare Workers Who Mocked Their Patients On TikTok Have Been Fired

Earlier this week, respective healthcare workers came nether fire aft mocking their patients' expected discharge successful a now-deleted TikTok video.

The archetypal slide connected the TikTok carousel saw the unit members — who were employed by Sutter Health’s Pesetas Urgent Care session successful Santa Barbara, a Sansum Clinic installation — smiling portion the caption on-screen read, “Are patients allowed to permission you guys gifts?”

The adjacent photos showed each of the employees posing playfully astir exam chairs stained with chartless fluids, portion the assorted captions read, “yes,” “all shapes and sizes,” and, “all shades and opacities.” The pictures were posted uncensored, but we person blurred the stains successful this article.

Not lone did the unit shamelessly constituent astatine the stains, instrumentality their tongues out, and propulsion their thumbs up, but successful the last image, 1 of the workers squatted connected apical of the array with her hands clasped unneurotic successful a praying position.

The TikTok, which was primitively captioned “guess the substance,” has since been deleted from the platform, arsenic has the relationship that posted it. However, it has been screen-recorded and reposted by respective outraged users crossed Reddit and X.

As expected, the video sparked immense backlash, with galore accounts rightfully calling the unit retired for “dehumanizing” their patients and being wholly “unethical.”

“I americium speechless. As a nurse, I consciousness second-hand embarrassment. This is beyond unprofessional and unethical,” 1 person said, portion another agreed, “That’s profoundly unprofessional.”

“This benignant of worldly makes it adjacent harder than it already is for radical to consciousness harmless with taking attraction of their health,” idiosyncratic pointed out.

Another idiosyncratic described the video arsenic “vile,” portion respective much urged Sutter Health to instrumentality action.

“Protecting the spot of those we service is our highest priority, and erstwhile that spot is violated, we instrumentality swift enactment to code it,” they continued.

“We expect each squad members to unrecorded our patients-first ngo and uphold the highest standards of compassion, professionalism and respect. We are utilizing this inappropriate incidental to reenforce our broad policies with each our squad members crossed the enactment arsenic portion of our committedness to providing each patients with high-quality, compassionate care,” it concluded.

According to People, who heard straight from Sutter Health, the institution confirmed that the employees were placed connected administrative permission "within 24 hours of becoming alert of the posts.” The outlet writes that the unit “were terminated wrong different 24 hours,” and that “the incidental remains an ongoing interior investigation.”

Truly disgusting behaviour from the staff. Feel escaped to stock your thoughts down beneath successful the comments.