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backfist1 t1_j461wmu wrote

i work in an ICU, if anyone requests vegan EPI, i'm protesting my assignment and not treating that patient. also if you need EPI, you probably are too sick to even ask for anything.

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bawki t1_j46ji8u wrote

Let's open a company and call it "organic epi", it still comes from organs but that's why we can call it "organic" right? 😂

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backfist1 t1_j46luq5 wrote

Better yet, open a vegan hospital and let them all go there. See how they survive

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Aethyx_ t1_j46ifwg wrote

Can I ask why you feel so strong about this? What's wrong in asking? If you tell them there's no time/option for that and they just agree, is that an issue?

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gluckspilze t1_j46bso4 wrote

hehe. You sound like you're getting very angry at this annoying vegan you've imagined. You're absolutely right that if a patient needs it, they're probably not in a state where you'd query it. But really, relax. There's millions of vegans, and few if any that would ever think of asking you for vegan EPI in an emergency. Whilst there are religious people who refuse life-saving medications, for most vegans, their principles are simply to make the less harmful choices where there is one, not to die for an ideology. And in a non emergency, what's so threatening hypothetically about a vegan asking if there's an option for a medication that's the more ethical choice? I use asthma inhalers, and requested the dry powder version rather than the aerosol. They're the same drug, but the aerosol is environmentally harmful. The doctor, nurse and pharmacists were all delighted to help. If they protested their assignment in treating me, I think they'd look a little crazy...

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shtonkalot t1_j46dnk5 wrote

>but the aerosol is environmentally harmful.

Why is that?

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Duenss t1_j46h47z wrote

Aerosols usually contains greenhouse gases, like way more efficient (maybe not the right word) than CO2

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