Having that level of empathy and compassion for people in general just can't be taught in schools. Either you have it or you don't. These nurses are just amazing people.
At a time when others abandoned family members, these nurses were the absolute best. They represented true decent and good human beings. All of those who died at 5A deserve to be never forgotten.
I was an RN who worked on an AIDS unit in London during the 80s and 90s it was tough and even all these years later I still have the occasional nightmare about it.
People who worked with HIV and AIDS patients in the early years were truly the salt and light of the earth in those days. No one understood truly what it was or how it was contracted initially. It was a terrifying time for everyone. I can only imagine what it must have been like for both the patients and those caring for them.
I had a professor who in the 80’s worked on an AIDS ward in Australia. She has shared multiple stories, so heartbreaking and inspiring. Now she teaches a new generation of medical professionals, passing on the knowledge and wisdom of her experiences working in infectious disease. Think she’s the closest thing to an angel a human can be.
I tell you.. watching this video shows me what nursing truly is about! Compassion, respect, acceptance and empathy! Nurses these days have a lot to learn! This puts them to shame heavily
A work colleague and friend of mine died of Aids. He was an absolute scream. Very outspoken which you were allowed to be in 1987 we both worked for an East London Council, he used to work for the Greater London Council before it was dismantled. He was only 33 far too young to die.
Unfortunately so many are obsessed with "academia" and climbing the career ladder rather than caring for patients, I'd take a less academic nurse anytime because they are the ones who care for their patients. So long as you're a safe practitioner and not incompetent you can keep your higher degrees and ambition and stick them up your backside.
All these ppl made such horrible choices man knowing this was going on and still having unprotected homosexual sex. Geez that’s insane and like asking for it….
@@bradcampbell5766 You're the one who's fooling themselves believing nonsense debunked conspiracy theories, try getting your RN qualification and working with AIDS patients during the 80s and early 90s like I did and I guarantee you that you wouldn't talk such utter garbage.
I have such admiration for those healthcare workers that took care of these severely ill patients not knowing if they were putting their lives at risk.
I have an incurable bowel disorder that while some doctors hold out hope, some still consider it terminal. (Ive made it 23 years now past my life expectancy)! But I spent 9 months of 1995 in the hospital in Columbus Ohio and it is hard if not impossible, to NOT develop a bond with the nurses who care for you day after day, week after week. My hat's off to these nurses, these compassionate unsung heroes! ❤
I couldn’t cope with it I don’t think. I work in medicine. I see suffering every day, and yes I have had patients with AIDS on occasion (Australia). But on that mass scale, it would take so much mental and emotional strength to see beautiful young men and women fade like elderly cancer patients every day. Many would essentially slowly suffocate to death from pneumonia. But every other opportunistic infection or cancer would cause profound suffering, and these patients would have had it in multiples. I send my love and respect to the doctors and nurses who had the strength to support and care for the victims.
Where is Alice today? We need a follow up.99%of the world population cannot comprehend what it's like to be one of these patients nor a responsible caregiver.
There are angels around us....we are not always aware of them , but they're there.....nurse's are angels I've never experienced a bad or uncaring nurse....they are precious and the most caring people I've ever met....thank God for them !!
It's heartbreaking to know that David, the black male nurse towards the end of this piece, had his name added to that memorial book not long after this aired ;(
Where did you find that information? Because he took part in the biopic 5B which was made only recently. Your information is faulty as he's not dead. Nothing online, no obit in the BAR (a gay friendly newspaper) I couldn't find diddly squat to indicate he's dead. If I'm wrong I apologize but I don't think I am but if you can back up your claims by providing links or telling us how to find the information that would be great especially if you want your comment to be taken seriously.
I can’t believe we lived through this time … I was young and lost friends …my heart is still broken for all those that we lost and for those of us who were left behind …
I’d like to know her last name, where she was born, what her personality was like, who her family was. What was her story? I’d like to know more than just her miserable last moments
Angel went by the name Vanessa, I met her in Houston TX. In the 80s. She then moved to SF. I saw her there she was living at the CHARLIE motel and was injecting meth. That's the last I saw her then I see this.
Antiretrovirals can slow down but not completely prevent the progression of HIV to full-blown AIDS and death. The war for a cure for HIV/AIDS continues.
Gosh, always someone that needs to make a comparison between doctors and nurses. It's pathetic really. We need both doctors and nurses. Both are absolutely essential, and nurses really deserve more recognition for their work. That being said, there are shitty doctors and there are shitty nurses--there are just shitty people in general. But I hate when people generalize us doctors as being egotistical. Like, don't generalize...
I don't like that suffering was sometimes prolonged toward the end. Instead of restraining Dorothy, I wish she could have been sedated on pain meds and allowed to go peacefully.
God Bless those nurses and those poor sick people who are suffering. NO ONE DESERVES THIS DISEASE!!!! Please find a cure I know the government has one but profit over saving peoples lives SMH!!!! RIP everyone who has passed from this horrible illness!!!
When I was doing my pediatric rotation I fed a n adorable 3 year old brown girl without gloves and she handed my as to me.I informed her that if your not dealing with body fluids it’s so ok. She gave me a low grade for clinical. I stood by my ideals
The nurses on the unit were nothing but true "ANGELS". who took care of all the sick and dying patients. Back when other parts of the country where I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky where they act like fools gown up from head to toe, wear goggles!!! Some wouldn't even go in or refuse to treat HIV patients!!! Shame on all of you!!!!!
Commendable woman. I feel like I would do the same thing if I was in a position to do it. She's a far braver and more moral healthcare provider than what we experienced from most of the healthcare workers during the recent pandemic over a far less dangerous virus.
Unfortunately so many nurses worldwide are obsessed with "academia" and climbing the career ladder rather than caring for patients, I'd take a less academic nurse anytime because they are the ones who really care for their patients. So long as you're a safe practitioner and not incompetent you can keep your higher degrees and ambition and stick them up your backside, it doesn't make you a better nurse, unfortunately it all too often only makes you a dictatorial strutting prideful peacock.
Yes these are the people who created and maintained 5B, which relocated to 5A at then San Francisco General Hospital. I was an LVN team member there, started much later in 1998.
She was dying. You lose control of bodily functions with certain diseases. We have to have some kind of compassion and empathy. If you've ever had unprotected sex this could've been you.
@@LoveReece1 not only unprotected sex. It was sometime back estimated that drug use had become the most common way through which HIV is spread. That's why govts around the world and some NGOs introduced centres where drug users can get clean and safe syringes. It was getting out of hand in many countries esp Canada, US and Europe.
Having that level of empathy and compassion for people in general just can't be taught in schools. Either you have it or you don't. These nurses are just amazing people.
I agree 100❤ you learn skills in education, but you do not learn empathy and humility. This is something within you.
At a time when others abandoned family members, these nurses were the absolute best. They represented true decent and good human beings. All of those who died at 5A deserve to be never forgotten.
I was an RN who worked on an AIDS unit in London during the 80s and 90s it was tough and even all these years later I still have the occasional nightmare about it.
People who worked with HIV and AIDS patients in the early years were truly the salt and light of the earth in those days. No one understood truly what it was or how it was contracted initially. It was a terrifying time for everyone. I can only imagine what it must have been like for both the patients and those caring for them.
I had a professor who in the 80’s worked on an AIDS ward in Australia. She has shared multiple stories, so heartbreaking and inspiring. Now she teaches a new generation of medical professionals, passing on the knowledge and wisdom of her experiences working in infectious disease. Think she’s the closest thing to an angel a human can be.
So much raw compassion at a time when it was so desperately needed 😢♥️ Wonderful nurses
You can feel the compassion these nurses have! God’s Angels at work!
I tell you.. watching this video shows me what nursing truly is about! Compassion, respect, acceptance and empathy! Nurses these days have a lot to learn! This puts them to shame heavily
A work colleague and friend of mine died of Aids. He was an absolute scream. Very outspoken which you were allowed to be in 1987 we both worked for an East London Council, he used to work for the Greater London Council before it was dismantled. He was only 33 far too young to die.
This is the core of what nursing means.
Unfortunately so many are obsessed with "academia" and climbing the career ladder rather than caring for patients, I'd take a less academic nurse anytime because they are the ones who care for their patients. So long as you're a safe practitioner and not incompetent you can keep your higher degrees and ambition and stick them up your backside.
All these ppl made such horrible choices man knowing this was going on and still having unprotected homosexual sex. Geez that’s insane and like asking for it….
@@ssherrierable Steven I agree
@@ssherrierable there is a special place in hell for people like you. I truly believe that
this is nursing at its core.
When my dad was in hospice his nurse was so nice to him🙏🏾🙏🏾
almost 30 years ago. wow. and 38 since the plague was first visible. These nurses are the reason I got into this profession.
I worked as an RN in an AIDS Hospice during the early 90's in Sydney Australia.
You haven't truly nursed until you have nursed through an epidemic....
And here we are today 4/01/2020
@@ramalamadingdongdong April Fools! They fooled a lot of people back then like they are doing today with Covid...
@@bradcampbell5766 You're the one who's fooling themselves believing nonsense debunked conspiracy theories, try getting your RN qualification and working with AIDS patients during the 80s and early 90s like I did and I guarantee you that you wouldn't talk such utter garbage.
To the one who said April fools. U better take care of ur only tensing brain cell
@@bradcampbell5766 genuinely hate you
These nurses were heroes.
We need more nurses like that!
I have such admiration for those healthcare workers that took care of these severely ill patients not knowing if they were putting their lives at risk.
I have an incurable bowel disorder that while some doctors hold out hope, some still consider it terminal. (Ive made it 23 years now past my life expectancy)! But I spent 9 months of 1995 in the hospital in Columbus Ohio and it is hard if not impossible, to NOT develop a bond with the nurses who care for you day after day, week after week.
My hat's off to these nurses, these compassionate unsung heroes! ❤
UC? Crohn’s?
I couldn’t cope with it I don’t think. I work in medicine. I see suffering every day, and yes I have had patients with AIDS on occasion (Australia). But on that mass scale, it would take so much mental and emotional strength to see beautiful young men and women fade like elderly cancer patients every day. Many would essentially slowly suffocate to death from pneumonia. But every other opportunistic infection or cancer would cause profound suffering, and these patients would have had it in multiples. I send my love and respect to the doctors and nurses who had the strength to support and care for the victims.
This is the kind of empathy police needs when responding to someone having a psychological crisis.
Nurses are unsung heroes...God bless them all. They are overworked & underpaid.
Where is Alice today? We need a follow up.99%of the world population cannot comprehend what it's like to be one of these patients nor a responsible caregiver.
More than likely dead, she was in the end stages of AIDS
@@browngrl77 Alice was not a patient; she was the first nurse they profiled on this video.
There are angels around us....we are not always aware of them , but they're there.....nurse's are angels I've never experienced a bad or uncaring nurse....they are precious and the most caring people I've ever met....thank God for them !!
It's heartbreaking to know that David, the black male nurse towards the end of this piece, had his name added to that memorial book not long after this aired ;(
Oh that’s so sad
❤️
5B is from around 2011
Where did you find that information? Because he took part in the biopic 5B which was made only recently. Your information is faulty as he's not dead. Nothing online, no obit in the BAR (a gay friendly newspaper) I couldn't find diddly squat to indicate he's dead. If I'm wrong I apologize but I don't think I am but if you can back up your claims by providing links or telling us how to find the information that would be great especially if you want your comment to be taken seriously.
I can’t believe we lived through this time … I was young and lost friends …my heart is still broken for all those that we lost and for those of us who were left behind …
Nurses do all of the real work. Love and compassion are just as important as anything.
These nurses are truly amazing.
Bullshit
Thank you for all the nurses who stood up and cared for these patients when noone else was there for them.
may God bless you all always. ❤❤🎉
RIP Dorothy
Bless her heart.
So so so sad.. RIP.
I’d like to know her last name, where she was born, what her personality was like, who her family was. What was her story? I’d like to know more than just her miserable last moments
@@strnglhld you’re just nosy as hell.
Sending love to all of them actually. I just finished seeing the whole video.
That was so sad to watch such suffering . 100% respect for the care givers that do their best to comfort them in their final days . ❤
The way these Aids victims were treated at the beginning of the epidemic was horrendous,thank god for some of the nurses.
I would like to know more about Angel. May he, Dorothy, Tom and Rudy rest in eternal peace.
Angel went by the name Vanessa, I met her in Houston TX. In the 80s. She then moved to SF. I saw her there she was living at the CHARLIE motel and was injecting meth. That's the last I saw her then I see this.
@@willowhart1425 thank you for your reply. Very sad what happened to her. I hope she rests in peace, knowing she is not forgotten.
@@sebastianfainbinda653 if this is true? Why would I make it up?
@@willowhart1425 did not mean to offend.
Such a horrific way to die. I am so glad we have treatment to prevent such a death.
Antiretrovirals can slow down but not completely prevent the progression of HIV to full-blown AIDS and death.
The war for a cure for HIV/AIDS continues.
So human... They just strengthen my hope in humanity
Nurses are THE REAL HEROES and are VASTLY underpaid then and now!
They suck now that's why
10:00 omg how beautiful human beings can be. That s what being a parent is, too. Beyond words....
These are some great nurses. They can put their own egos, etc. aside, instead giving top service. Many doctors should realize that.
Gosh, always someone that needs to make a comparison between doctors and nurses. It's pathetic really. We need both doctors and nurses. Both are absolutely essential, and nurses really deserve more recognition for their work. That being said, there are shitty doctors and there are shitty nurses--there are just shitty people in general. But I hate when people generalize us doctors as being egotistical. Like, don't generalize...
David, the black male nurse, himself, ended up hiv+!
How do you know?
@@pernilla2962 the documentary revealed it at the end
I also tagged many many sad days for us nurses but we took such good of our kids. Our floor was called 3west
🌟Compassion and nursing at it's finest🌟
I don't like that suffering was sometimes prolonged toward the end. Instead of restraining Dorothy, I wish she could have been sedated on pain meds and allowed to go peacefully.
What a heros these nurses.
amazing people..
I had a pediatric nursing professor who told me I would never be a good nurse because I fed a 3 yr old girl cereal without gloves on
PS I made atop
I made a top nurse so boo hoo on her
Such wonderful nurses ♥️
Its one of the hardest viruses to transmit and the public are treating them like they have ebola its sad
God Bless those nurses and those poor sick people who are suffering. NO ONE DESERVES THIS DISEASE!!!! Please find a cure I know the government has one but profit over saving peoples lives SMH!!!! RIP everyone who has passed from this horrible illness!!!
For sure , the lord is with you. Your heavenly treasures are waiting, for sure.
That nurse David is so cool!
He's in the movie 5B too!
@@Mosesblah I can't wait to see that!!!
@@Mosesblah can you please post the link or the name of that video. I really would love to see it and I would appreciate it.
@@Dpurple28 It's a documentary called 5B, it's playing in theaters now.
Sending love to Alice 🙏❤️
Angels on Earth..
The nurses in this doc have more love and empathy in their fingernails than most of the nurses today put together.
heartbreaking. These nurses are heroes. Rest in peace to all the victims of this hideous diseasel
When I was doing my pediatric rotation I fed a n adorable 3 year old brown girl without gloves and she handed my as to me.I informed her that if your not dealing with body fluids it’s so ok. She gave me a low grade for clinical. I stood by my ideals
The nurses on the unit were nothing but true "ANGELS". who took care of all the sick and dying patients. Back when other parts of the country where I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky where they act like fools gown up from head to toe, wear goggles!!! Some wouldn't even go in or refuse to treat HIV patients!!! Shame on all of you!!!!!
When people speak of god I wonder how they explain this kind of suffering.
Commendable woman. I feel like I would do the same thing if I was in a position to do it. She's a far braver and more moral healthcare provider than what we experienced from most of the healthcare workers during the recent pandemic over a far less dangerous virus.
Meredith Viera before she was 'Who wants to be a millionaire "
If those people would have been able to get a vaccine! These nurses are true hero's!
We don't have a vaccine in 2023
Naw, just let me go. No sense in it. Give hydration, nutrition, if able, O2, and pain control. No heroic measures.
Where’s Rita Rockett?
Right? We need her parading through those halls, carrying on as she did!
Died of AIDS
Is that Meredith Vera as the reporter? Sounds like it
Yes, You can see her at the beginning.
Unfortunately so many nurses worldwide are obsessed with "academia" and climbing the career ladder rather than caring for patients, I'd take a less academic nurse anytime because they are the ones who really care for their patients. So long as you're a safe practitioner and not incompetent you can keep your higher degrees and ambition and stick them up your backside, it doesn't make you a better nurse, unfortunately it all too often only makes you a dictatorial strutting prideful peacock.
I need to watch the documentary on 5A. I believe 5A is what it is called.
Ward 5B
Was the Docu '5B' at the same hospital?
Yes these are the people who created and maintained 5B, which relocated to 5A at then San Francisco General Hospital. I was an LVN team member there, started much later in 1998.
GOD BLESS ALICE
What's with the buzzing sound?
😢😢😢😢😢
so silly how anyone thought this was airborne.
These nurses were a godsend back then. Peoples fear brought out an ugliness of mankind that we will never understand.
5:58
🤢 🤮 💩
She was dying. You lose control of bodily functions with certain diseases. We have to have some kind of compassion and empathy. If you've ever had unprotected sex this could've been you.
@@LoveReece1 not only unprotected sex. It was sometime back estimated that drug use had become the most common way through which HIV is spread. That's why govts around the world and some NGOs introduced centres where drug users can get clean and safe syringes. It was getting out of hand in many countries esp Canada, US and Europe.
K is acting like she’s never had diarrhea🙄
Burn in hell kRkR