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To: Dane
a 25-year-old nurse's aide

I remember reading a detective story about 25 years ago, in which the sleuth said that the murderer couldn't have been the nurse, because nurses are in business to save lives, not take them.

Obviously you have to wonder what kind of woman this is. But you also have to wonder what is becoming of the medical profession. Some of them save lives, others take them. There's no certainty any more. Medical schools either edit the Hippocratic oath to allow abortions and assisted suicide, or sometimes doctors don't bother to take the oath at all. And this isn't the first unbelievable nurse story I've seen, either.

3 posted on 03/07/2002 4:44:08 AM PST by Cicero
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To: Cicero
That sticks out in my mind as well,...A nurse's aide commits the crime, now her 'friends' aid and abet in covering up the crime and she's released until trial?

So I guess while she's going straight, she'll return to work as a nurse's aide?....helping out by listening to the infirm in their hospital beds and taking appropriate action?

I think the prosecutor or the judge needs to notify her employer and at least recommend she not be given duties where patients must rely on her judgment.

17 posted on 03/07/2002 5:02:24 AM PST by Cvengr
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To: Cicero
I remember reading a detective story about 25 years ago, in which the sleuth said that the murderer couldn't have been the nurse, because nurses are in business to save lives, not take them.

I remember a story when I was a reporter in Texas when a nurse, in a hurry to get to work, illegally passed a school bus picking up kids on the highway on the second day of school and struck a beautiful five year old girl who was crossing the road, holding her older sister's hand. The blow ripped the child from her sister's grasp and dragged down the road several hundred yards. The coroner was sick to his stomach when he was called to the scene to pronouse the little girl dead. I don't remember what happened to the nurse.

I wrote a scathing front page article about the fact that the school district had received many complaints about the danger of that bus stop and had refused to have the bus stop on the opposite side of the highway where all the children lived.

73 posted on 03/07/2002 6:42:58 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Cicero
She was NOT a nurse; she was a nurse's aide. That's a lay-person, who has had 3 or 4 weeks of bed-pan training, not a medical professional.
90 posted on 03/07/2002 7:52:11 AM PST by jim35
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To: Cicero
She was NOT a nurse; she was a nurse's aide. That's a lay-person, who has had 3 or 4 weeks of bed-pan training, not a medical professional.
91 posted on 03/07/2002 7:52:40 AM PST by jim35
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