NHS staff have been called “dirty foreigners” and “monkeys” amid a “noticeable” and “unacceptable” rise in racism from patients, a survey has found.

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    9 hours ago

    That’s how you become an organ donor.

    If people want to be racist let them be racist, at home with their medical issue still ongoing, they can either stop being racist, they can die of sepsis. But that will be their choice.

  • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
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    11 hours ago

    These are probably the same people who voted Brexit. That backfired. Instead of healthcare positions being filled by Europeans they’re now being filled by people further afield.

    I can’t be nice for the people receiving this abuse. If I could I’d let them know there are good people here too, not just the rotten racists.

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    1 day ago

    Hmmm…I seem to be critically injured. Should I act decent? Nah, let’s insult the person trying to help me.

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      Nah, these people think the nonwhite nurses and doctors will somehow harm them, negligently or intentionally kill them, etc.

      Because that’s what these racists would do to nonwhite patients.

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      10 hours ago

      Ignorance, rather than stupidity. In many ways it’s worse. Stupidity can at best be outgrown with time. Ignorance is, in the modern world, a choice.