[Portnoy]

You know, John Edwards charges $300 and hours to talk to dead people. Betchya these people weren't getting a fraction of that....

[Blood of Tyrants]

"She's not dead! She's just resting!"

Monty Python bump!

[litehaus]

Candidates for "child welfare worker" in Florida??

[per loin]

Two British mental health workers

Notice to Universities: Include instruction on recognition of life-impaired patients.

[ibbryn]

Well thank G-D they left. Social workers are annoying enough as it is. I don't want them hounding me after I'm dead.

[jellybean]

An inquest heard the workers from the mental health charity Mind let themselves into the home of paranoid schizophrenic Patricia Harris and found her sitting in the kitchen with the curtains drawn and her back to them.

A Mind is a terrible thing to waste.

[joesnuffy]

She was a perfect patient ...never questioned or interupted...

[SES1066]

The key here is "paranoid schizophrenic" which does excuse a lot. Depending upon the medication load, this can be an expected response for an absolute nightmare of a disease. Yes, the workers should have looked at her more closely and I'm sure that they sincerely wish that they had, but I can't fault them overly much. Just looking at a PS patient can set off a paranoid episode by itself. This truely is a 'No Joy' scenario.

[blackdog]

Where is John Cleese when you need him?

Maybe they were just tired from being up all night shagging?

[DainBramage]

chatted with her a bit

"Ummm Mrs. Harris...you should do something about all these flies......"

"Well okay then, we'll be on our way, toodles hip hip and all that."

[zingzang]

And who says socialized medicine doesn't work!? :p

[Jaxter]

If it had been in South Dakota they'd have registered her to vote.

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!

[Consort]

What did they charge for the seance?

[HEY4QDEMS]

I guess she'll be needing an absentee ballot!

[Xenalyte]

One of my best friends clerked at a medical-malpractice firm, and they defended a nurse who - well, you've heard of Coke-bottle glasses? Her glasses were as thick as the bottle itself, not just the bottom.

This virtually blind nurse was making night rounds, and when she visited one patient, he had shuffled off this mortal coil; she failed to detect it, and wrote on his chart that he was "resting peacefully."

Which he was, I guess.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

"She didn't seem to want us there," health worker Helen Redmond was quoted as saying.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

in search of a towel now to wipe the PEPSI off of the monitor...

[johnb838]

In a personal care home where my Mother stayed for a while, there was a very sweet old man who had lost the capacity to speak due to cancer. He had lost a great deal of weight as well and one day the workers got him up out of bed and walked him to the kitchen table. They tried really hard to get him to drink his orange juice but he just wouldn't try to help at all. When the relief worker came in she informed the others that he had passed. Mom didn't stay in that home too long after that.

[Mr. Silverback]

I see dead people...and they're in Britain.

[Billthedrill]

I've had dates like that, but I always assumed they were faking it so I'd pick up the check...