Morgan,

Well said.  As a side note, about ten years ago, I worked in a hospital
where there was a new nurse starting employment.  Everyone thought she was a
little bit odd.  She asked questions that weren't entirely strange, but they
just made you think, "Shouldn't she know that already?"  Finally, some
nurses banded together and approached the manager.  An in-depth
investigation was done and it was discovered that she was not a nurse at
all.  She was in fact a medical student from another country who had failed
her classes.  So she came to this country, lied about her education, and
challenged the state nursing board examination... and passed.

You are right... we must speak up when we know something is amiss.

Christina Harris, RN
Federal Way, WA


On 10/25/07, Morgan Gallagher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> We had a Dr in the UK, who was known for prescribing strange things for
> common illnesses.  The local pharmacy knew of his oddities, and
> commented upon them, and so did the HV, and the nurses, and others.
>
> He regularly prescribed drinking coal tar shampoo for stomach ailments.
>
> After nearly two decades, he was finally invesitgated... and wasn't a Dr
> at all.  And everyone who had known he'd prescribed odd things said "We
> knew there was something wrong..."  And everyone said "And it isn't it
> awful he was never challenged, even though we knew he was doing strange
> things".
>
> But no one challenges Drs.  And another Dr in the UK, knew this, and
> worked upon it for a couple of decades also... and his name was Dr
> Shipman.  And when he was finally sentanced to prison for routinely
> murdering his elderly patients, everyone said "We knew there was
> something wrong...."
>
> I'm aware that different cultures exist in all the various nationalities
> to be found in here... and these ae extreme examples... but if you know
> there is something wrong... you do have to speak up, just in case it's a
> lot more wrong that you could possibly think.
>
> Morgan Gallagher
>
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