Stargazer: Glad to see you're sticking to the topic of this thread. I presented a point of view relative to the topic. You don't have to agree with it. We can just agree, civilly, to disagree. But...
Gee, Stargazer. You so sure that you know who and what I am or am not. Dodging your question? I have absolutely no obligation to share any personal information with you. And because I don't, you jump...
"i read your post. i know what it said. the original post, and the topic of this thread, was an observation of human behavior that we nurses encounter frequently. sometimes we can make stereotypes...
you said: " i don't buy this. if this was true, then all patients would assume helplessness upon admission to the hospital. but not all patients do. so, there *must* be a component of the...
I don't deny that there are people who are helpless before they arrive at the hospital and then continue the behavior there, and are often enabled. But there are many people who are not helpless who...
"hospital induced paralysis. it is a syndrome in which an individual becomes completely helpless upon crossing the hospital threshold." hospitals can "induce" the kind of behavior you describe -- if...
And no one person suggests that you ask the man if he might feel more comfortable if a male nurse did the procedure. Maybe he wouldn't. Maybe he would. How would you know? Ask. I know. I know....
It seems to me that, for some at least, this issue is at heart about trust, honesty, oversight and supervision. Some may just firmly be against having any student nurse or doctor work on them. But...
"but i am not such a special snowflake that i really need to worry about what professionals are thinking about my corpus." i don't disagree with that point of view, but it is a point of view. as...
My concerns have nothing to do with whether these young people are competent or caregiving. Of course they could be. But they are minors. Who takes the responsibility for their actions? Who's the deep...
Let's do a little philosophy here, okay? Ontology -- no, this isn't about cancer. It's about the essence of what it means to be a "patient." What "is" a patient? And what "is not" a patient. A patient...
It's interesting how the focus here is on just one side of the issue. If patient autonomy has any significance at all, if individual values and differences count, if respect and dignity matter, than...
According to the definition of sexual harassment, if you overhear something that you feel is harassment and it bothers you, offends you, then it can be considered sexual harassment. You're the one...
Isn't this interesting. All the stories are about men. I guess no females ever come into the ER for any embarrassing conditions. Or is this just an example of why its unhealthy for one gender to...