Are We Truly That Gullible?

[Teacher Sue]

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?

[BrnEyedGirl, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

I love Gomerblog,....:)