Fake 'Nurse' Killed Patients Because of Hangover

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Fake 'Nurse' Killed Patients Because of Hangover

First, I really despise the clickbait title from the Times in the UK, because this person is NOT a nurse. Nonetheless this is just shocking, 'Nurse' with hangover killed patients to keep them quiet. Opening sentence:

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"A German care worker who pretended to be a nurse has confessed to killing two elderly patients in one of Munich's top hospitals by giving them drugs to keep them quiet so that he could sleep off his hangovers."

Second, why is this world going in such a terrible direction. Is there any good news lately? Sorry, just venting a little bit here.

Davey Do

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futur0_nurs said:

why is this world going in such a terrible direction. Is there any good news lately?

The premise of this statement is that the world is going in a terrible direction, inferring the world was once not going in such a direction. It then questions as to why there is no good news as of late.

This is an extremely narrowly viewed and parochial premise of a perspective.

 Charles Dickens wrote over 150 years ago, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" and goes on to give the extremes of society.

It was clearly stated that the individual pretended to be a nurse, so the initial complaint is mute.

Apology accepted for the superfluous vent.

JBMmom, MSN, NP

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futur0_nurs said:

I really despise the clickbait title

Oftentimes I think that media outlets write shocking headlines knowing they have nothing to do with the facts of the story, just as you said, to get traffic to their sites/stories. In this case, I think that because nurses are considered to be one of the most trustworthy professions, it's the shock value they wanted.

I'm not sure that the world is really headed in a different direction than it ever has been, we just hear about everything much more these days. And stories like this one are going to travel the fastest and farthest. It's an unfortunate story, at least it wasn't really a nurse, but that doesn't bring back the people who lost their lives. Sad. 

Brad

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I cant believe I created an account to do this but the original article was mistranslated by the article you posted.

Once again, someone mis-translated: Der ausgebildete Altenpfleger aus Nordrhein-Westfalen war im Juli 2020 über eine Zeitarbeitsfirma in die Klinik gekommen und dort vor allem auf der Wachstation im Einsatz, einer Zwischenstation zwischen Intensiv- und normaler Station, auf der Kranke rund um die Uhr betreut werden.”

The original article indicates that the alleged murderer was indeed a nurse (Altebpfkeger is a trained geriatric nurse). Where it goes haywire in the translation is that it's stated the person was working in "wachstation" which isn't in the specialty of that nurse. It does not however indicate that the individual did so to gain access to the victims either. We don't know the context of why the nurse was working outside their specialty; as the article never mentions that. 
so please either change your heading or acknowledge that the linked article is mistranslated.

All around this is bad reporting.

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I'm originally from the UK and you guys should know where The Times is coming from.

The Times is one of the UK's oldest newspapers founded in 1785. For years it was a highly respected, reputable centre-right newspaper. Then, in 1981 it was taken over by Rupert Murdoch. Do I need to say any more? 

The Times still parades as a serious newspaper, trading on its past reputation, when in fact it's descended into a low level gutter publication. An extremely low level of journalism - it doesn't surprise me that they've sensationalized the presentation of this, nor that they've been careless with translation from the original German story. 

I personally don't touch ANY Murdoch publications as I believe they're not to be trusted. 

Davey Do said:

so the initial complaint is mute.

Your attempt to sound smart is MOOT. 

Davey Do

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Jennifer Breininger said:

Your attempt to sound smart is MOOT. 

I'm speechless.

In other words, mute.

Kitiger, RN

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Davey Do said:

I'm speechless.

In other words, mute.

A lot of people don't know the difference.

Mute: refraining from speech or temporarily speechless:

Moot: subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty:

Davey Do

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Kitiger said:

A lot of people don't know the difference.

Mute: refraining from speech or temporarily speechless:

Moot: subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty:

Yeah. I know the difference, thanks Kitiger, but was experiencing a Senior Moment.

Kitiger, RN

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Davey Do said:

Yeah. I know the difference, thanks Kitiger, but was experiencing a Senior Moment.

YOU had it right. The definition was to help others.

It is in fact moot. The second definition is 

having little or no practical relevance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision.

The construction "your point is mute" etc is always incorrect.  It is moot. 

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DavidFR said:

I'm originally from the UK and you guys should know where The Times is coming from.

The Times is one of the UK's oldest newspapers founded in 1785. For years it was a highly respected, reputable centre-right newspaper. Then, in 1981 it was taken over by Rupert Murdoch. Do I need to say any more? 

The Times still parades as a serious newspaper, trading on its past reputation, when in fact it's descended into a low level gutter publication. An extremely low level of journalism - it doesn't surprise me that they've sensationalized the presentation of this, nor that they've been careless with translation from the original German story. 

I personally don't touch ANY Murdoch publications as I believe they're not to be trusted. 

I'm still in the UK and agree with every word David has written. As David stated, the Times used to be a respected news source. Now it is just tabloid journalism with better spelling.

Tabloid journalism is a popular style of largely sensationalist journalism (usually dramatized and sometimes unverifiable or even blatantly false), which takes its name from the tabloid newspaper format: a small-sized newspaper also known as half broadsheet. The size became associated with sensationalism, and tabloid journalism replaced the earlier label of yellow journalism and scandal sheets. Not all newspapers associated with tabloid journalism are tabloid size, and not all tabloid-size newspapers engage in tabloid journalism; in particular, since around the year 2000 many broadsheet newspapers converted to the more compact tabloid format.

In some cases, celebrities have successfully sued for libel, demonstrating that tabloid stories have defamed them.

Publications engaging in tabloid journalism are known as rag newspapers or simply rags.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_journalism

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