Are We Truly That Gullible?

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I was scrolling through Facebook earlier this evening and ran across a headline that someone had posted from Gomerblog, a satirical medical blog. The article was about a nurse losing her license because she gave a patient the wrong sandwich. I clicked on the article, read it, and was amused, I went back to the Facebook posting to read the comments and was shocked by what nurses had commented about this article. Most of them reacted with outrage over how this poor nurse had been treated. Perhaps some of them had only read the headline, and not the entire article, but some of them quoted the article in their comments. These were nurses, people on my friends list that I have worked with in the past. I was dumbfounded that they believed this was true. Are we that gullible that we believe everything we see on the Internet?

And God help you if you switch creamy peanut butter for chunky.

Not only will they take away your license, they will probably chop off your hands...

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.

This one had me LOL:

Cat on Ventilator, Still Full Code After 4 Years - Medical Satire - GomerBlog

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Specializes in Maternity.
Well, I guess I will admit I have a really twisted sense of humor! I just signed up for the weekly email from Gomerblog.

Here's my favorite so far:

Cat on Ventilator, Still Full Code After 4 Years - Medical Satire - GomerBlog

I'll have to keep this in mind when my cats get to the point where they have no quality of life but I want to keep them "alive". NOT!

Would it be really inappropriate to post this on the "brain dead part deux" thread? I know, I know...I'm twisted ;()

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.
Would it be really inappropriate to post this on the "brain dead part deux" thread? I know, I know...I'm twisted ;()

I'm kinda ashamed to admit it :sorry:, but I was thinking the exact same thing.

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Specializes in Maternity.
I'm kinda ashamed to admit it :sorry:, but I was thinking the exact same thing.

Birds of a feather....twist together

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Specializes in CCM, PHN.

We have some brilliant provocateurs here; someone needs to start a nursing-focused Gomerblog site!

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We have some brilliant provocateurs here; someone needs to start a nursing-focused Gomerblog site!

I'm afraid we would get carried away and spanked harshly :)

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Specializes in pediatrics; PICU; NICU.
Would it be really inappropriate to post this on the "brain dead part deux" thread? I know, I know...I'm twisted ;()

That's exactly what I was thinking about as I laughed my way through this article!

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Would it be really inappropriate to post this on the "brain dead part deux" thread? I know, I know...I'm twisted ;()

I instantly thought of that thread when I saw the link and read through it. ;)

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Specializes in Maternity.
I instantly thought of that thread when I saw the link and read through it. ;)

Wincing: I know...

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.
Maybe nurses are a little hypersensitive sometimes, to the exclusion of common sense? I love that a bunch of docs remembered to include us nurses in the fun. Check out this one: Doctors and Nurses Fight Back; Proposal to Link Hospital CEO Salaries to Employee Satisfaction Passes Senate - Medical Satire - GomerBlog

Too bad it's a satire column!

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