What Would You THink if This Information Was Published in Your Company Newsletter?

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http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp

The Snopes part was not in the new letter...just the part about the information being from Johns Hopkins (actually the newsletter called it John Hopkins). This the news letter from my former employer (which I still get because they send it to the local fire department members). This is not the first time they have put things like this in...I've also seen things about getting into your vechicle by having someone else hold their keyless entry fob up to their phone while you hold your phone near the car door, things about deodorant causing breast cancer, and articles warning not to sample perfume in department stores because they cause you to become unconsious. They also published the kidney theft letter (and had all employees who travel sign an agreement not to drink or take anyone home for the night). You would think a health care institution would do better research!

[SweetTeaRN, BSN, RN]

I would be very irritated if my employer were publishing/endorsing this type of information. I get enough of these passed along as chain email from family & friends! If it persisted (which in your case it sounds like it has) I may even consider letting a superior know that the published information is false. I'd consider the paper the newsletter was on as a waste of company money.

[Kashia, ASN, LVN]

I would think my company was part of a medical establishment that is feeling threatened that people may empower themselves with true health

thus decreasing profit margins.

And I would consider not being part of the problem ie: why am I working here?

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It's just weird that they print some of this stuff. The worst thing is that the editors of the newsletter are a nurse and the head of I.T. It seems to me that someone should know better.

[rph3664]

A few years ago, The Onion, which is a satirical magazine, published a story about how 8- and 9-year-olds were renouncing Christianity and embracing satanism because of Harry Potter.

Several weeks later, someone wrote a letter to my local newspaper AND QUOTED FROM THAT ARTICLE! The letter writer didn't know it was satire, and apparently the editor didn't either. OTOH, it's always possible that they printed the letter to embarrass the writer.

[BrnEyedGirl, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

Read the whole page,...that's what snopes is about,..it lplainly states that this "news letter" was in no way conected to Johns Hopkins.

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Read the whole page,...that's what snopes is about,..it lplainly states that this "news letter" was in no way conected to Johns Hopkins.

Right...but they didn't print the Snopes part...they just printed the part about "Johns Hopkins says..." I checked it out on Snopes myself because the whole thing seemed a little out there to me and because the nurse whose name was on the article has a history of printing things that are less than accurate.

I couldn't find a link to the article without the part about it being a hoax, otherwise I would have posted that link.

Things like this really make me angry because both of my in-laws died with some form of cancer. Articles like this one make people question things that they shouldn't even be thinking about.

[RN1989]

Why is this facility wasting money on this kind of thing? Makes me also worry for the standard of care that this facility has.