After reading the article, I don't see the problem.

An NHS source said: "Sara was a very popular member of the team at the hospital.


Apparently.

unyon: FTFA: "One of them was long-term and we were together for nearly ten years. And the other is the one I am in now, who I love." She added: "I have never had an affair with a patient's partner."

So let me get this right- She met and fell in love with guy #1, but never acted upon it until his wife had died and he (nor a family member) were a direct NHS client, much less in care at the hospital. That relationship lasted 10 years.

She met and fell in love with guy #2 the same way, and is still with him.

What's the problem here? She didn't have affairs with these guys while caring for their terminally ill wives. She didn't have affairs with patients. And she didn't do it willy-nilly.

What's the problem again?

Britain. That's the problem - it's because they're retarded about how modern medicine works... it's why the PM has an American medical staff. This counts for both Britain AND Canada.

As for when Britain started to suck:

Since around the time the Vikings lost control of it, who wrestled it out of the hands of Roman descendants, who took it from Celtic descendants, which were actually tribal societies built much like the Native Americans. Except with ludicrously strong alcohol.

"Britain: The only country on Earth where losing is a national pastime."

/Wanna hear something funny? France has more war victories than Britain. That's not a joke - but it is something that Anglo-Franco Historians laugh about behind closed doors.
//That's "War" (as in total victory) not "Battle".

This is proof that a man will hit ANYTHING. Anything.

brainiac-dumdum: After reading the article, I don't see the problem.

Me neither. She didn't get involved with these men until well after their wives had died, and it's hardly like she was sleeping with them one after the other. What she did in her private life shouldn't have any bearing on whether she can perform her duties as a nurse; I don't understand why she was fired at all.

VelmaCruise: This is proof that a man will hit ANYTHING. Anything.

How you doin'?

brainiac-dumdum: After reading the article, I don't see the problem.

OLD, miserable dried-out control-freaks (aka the ruling class) hate the idea of people having sex.

Note: AGE does not necessarily equal WISDOM!

I don't get it. This is pretty spurious, I think.

Bendal: Me neither. She didn't get involved with these men until well after their wives had died, and it's hardly like she was sleeping with them one after the other.

She slept with them all at once?

crazywisdom_uk: I don't get it. This is pretty spurious, I think.

Nurses and spurs. This is getting kinkier by the minute.

I have to join the "I don't see the problem here" crowd. for all the reasons mentioned above by unyon and Gwendolyn

I was expecting a naughty nurse story, but got something else.

I do believe there is much more to the story than what TFA provides and I would guess her relationships are a cover.

I wonder whose Cheerios she pissed in?

Oh, the humanity.


/I didn't do that right, did I.

Another Government Employee: I wonder whose Cheerios she pissed in?

Perhaps the hospital administrator or physician she spurned?

/*golf clap* for gratuitous use of the term "Cheerio" in a thread about Britain.

Jedekai. Be thankful the French can beat the British. That's how the war of independence was won.

I fail to see what she did wrong.

log_jammin:
I'd just take the plot of a mainstream Hollywood movie and add in a bunch of sex. Change the title slightly to something like "Lord of the Cockrings".

Shaving Ryan's Privates?

Uh, is a 'Macmillan Nurse' different from a regular nurse?

Count me in the camp who can't tell what was wrong here from the text of the article.

calbert: /"I came to help restore your pluck..."

Cause I'm the nurse that likes to.......

/fap?

I wonder if she gives it up for guys that just leave their sick wife in the chemo ward, like Newt Gingrich.

priapic_abandon
I wonder if she gives it up for guys that just leave their sick wife in the chemo ward, like Newt Gingrich.

or John Edwards, might as well be fair..right?

log_jammin: Ender's: up to and including say 9?

and the 9th one would be, by far, the best one ever.

Would it be better than LOTR?

This has changed my opinion of socialized medicine.

/obamacare ftw!

I'm a bit confused here, what exactly did she do wrong? Is it now illegal for a nurse to date?

Not easy being a cancer nurse..... let her have what joy she can.

Sounds like office politics to me. Nursing has an abundance of it, and hospice care has even more. Put a bunch of women together in a pressure situation and watch the fur fly from the catfights. And the biatchy women almost always win.

She looks like someone who would kill your wife to get you.

/ducks

FTFA Her relationships came after her divorce and were not conducted at the same time.
She began one more than a year after her lover's partner died. She started dating Steve months after Mel passed away - and now lives with him in South Wootton, Norfolk.



I don't see anything wrong with this. They were long term relationships, one lasting almost 10yrs.

For those of you who really don't understand why this is wrong:

The relationship between medical professionals and their patients is one that cannot be allowed to become too personal. This is common to almost all highly-skewed power relationships, but is particularly true in medicine. As a patient, you have to be able to trust your doctors and nurses not to be looking at you sexually. As a doctor or nurse, you have to be able to understand that you leave your sexuality at the door of the hospital and pick it up on the way out. As a medical employer, you expect that your employees will not mix their patient lists with their dating pools.

If the situation were that she had happened to bump into the guy a year later while speed dating, they hit it off, then a month into the relationship it transpired she had treated the guys dying wife, then fine, the boundaries weren't broken. It's an awful coincidence for this to happen twice though. The far more likely scenario is that she used her position as a nurse to keep in contact with the guys, which means that she used her medical relationship to start a personal and sexual one. This is completely unacceptable. As a patient, I wouldn't trust her, as an employer, I wouldn't trust her, as a nurse, she has shown such bad judgment that I do not believe she should be allowed to continue in the job.

Any medical ethics course will tell you not to sleep with your patients, present or past. No medical ethics course will put in exceptions to this and tell you that it's ok in some circumstances. This is really not too hard to understand.

MrT: The relationship between medical professionals and their patients is one that cannot be allowed to become too personal.

At no point were those men her patients, nor are they likely to become so.

/next.