fetching the doctor's tea

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Just a small anecdote that happened when working at the National Neurological hospital in central London - it's the most prestigious neuro hospital in the country.

Anyway, my friend made the headlines of the local tabloids because we were both working there as temp nurses, and we'd only worked a few shifts before, but the surgeon was used to the nurses automatically getting his cup of tea, but as we were new there, had no idea. But he didn't tell me to get the tea (maybe because I was a guy) but he asked my friend (who was female) where his cup of tea was.

She politely told him she was there to fetch his tea for him.

The doctor didn't exactly complain, well, nothing official, but he did speak to the charge nurse, who did excused the temp nurses actions and had a quiet word with her.

My friend wasn't happy about this, moaned about it to her friends outside of work, one of whom happened to work in the newspaper business, and suddenly her story is on the front page of the paper.

Anyway, just saying.

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I see you're posting again. I tried looking for this story to see if this was indeed true.

Do you have a link?

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It must have been a slow news day for the paper.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

"She politely told him she was there to fetch his tea for him."

That doesn't even make sense.

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happened either 98 or 99. No idea which british paper, but it also made the news in new Zealand.

Don't believe, that's fine, but why on earth would I make something like this up? What is going on here. Just thought I'd share a little anecdote from the distant past. No big deal, no controversy.

And you can 'politely' tell someone you are not there to make a cup of tea, or you can tell the bugger off - not sure how some people didn't quite get that.

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happened either 98 or 99. No idea which british paper, but it also made the news in new Zealand.

Don't believe, that's fine, but why on earth would I make something like this up? What is going on here. Just thought I'd share a little anecdote from the distant past. No big deal, no controversy.

And you can 'politely' tell someone you are not there to make a cup of tea, or you can tell the bugger off - not sure how some people didn't quite get that.

You post the most random things...

I kind of missed it.

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You post the most random things...

I kind of missed it.

It was a random, meaningless anecdote, just sharing an experience.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
"She politely told him she was there to fetch his tea for him."

That doesn't even make sense.

Read what you wrote.

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It was a random, meaningless anecdote, just sharing an experience.

I appreciate it. Your posts make me laugh (and I'm not being mean).

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Read what you wrote.

yes, your are quite right, it doesn't make sense, there should be a 'not' before the 'there' my apologies

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Male nurses don't fetch tea or insert foleys. What do they do?

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Male nurses don't fetch tea or insert foleys. What do they do?

No, no, you have it all wrong. His colleague was a female.

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