Jul 08, 2004, 05:41 PM
I love a joke, and I hate to be a killjoy, but there's a serious aspect to this, once you get past the resident's discomfort. Embarrassing a resident is one thing, but how will the patient feel about having been allowed to behave in such a manner, especially so when it was avoidable? Presumably she was in hospital because she could not control her "hyper" behaviour, and those who should have been protecting her during this phase of her illness did not.
Another worrying aspect of this story is the sexist attitude of the staff implicit in her treatment. Her overtly sexual behaviour is somehow tolerated because of her gender. Not to put too fine a point on it, if the genders were reversed, would the story still be funny? "Female intimately touched by amorous male psych patient" sounds more like a tabloid headline. I hope it is just a story. Rant over.
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