Archive for February, 2010
Stafford Hospital Scandal – Blame the Staff!
The Nurse, not usually shockable, is shocked speechless by today’s revelations about the goings on at Stafford hospital.
Everyone’s busy blaming the Government, the healthcare Trust, the NHS’s regulatory bodies, bureaucracy, budgets… but nobody has mentioned the role that hospital staff played.
Did the Government neglect, bully and starve all those poor, poor people? Nope. The nurses and hospital [...]Give Iran Their Very Own Nuclear Bombs
Plenty of countries, the UK and US included, have massive stocks of nuclear weapons.
OK, we’re not supposed to be building new ones and there’s a non-proliferation agreement in place. But – she has said it before and she’ll say it again – The Nurse still thinks it’s naive to expect Iran to abstain from nuclear weapons altogether.
It’d be a different story if very [...]Homeopathic nonsense: If it works, homeopathy defies the laws of physics
Do you believe in Homeopathy? The Nurse isn’t convinced. Why? Because to work, it’d have to defy the laws of physics.
Even if you wouldn’t know a law of physics if it punched you on the nose, you probably realise that it is 100% impossible to defy them.
Fact: the only way homeopathy could work is if it managed to defy those [...]
