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(Yahoo) Hero Nurse takes a break from testifying against her landlord in court to give him CPR and save his life. Landlord thanks her; promises he'll wait until he's out of the hospital to resume suing her   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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Tastes Like Chicken
2007-03-15 4:26:59 PM  
Subby: ... him .... his .... he'll .... he's....

TFA: Genevieve
 
HeAintHeavy
2007-03-15 6:22:20 PM  
That's nothing more than doing your ethical and professional duty... another regular day at work. For us ER types, a week doesn't go by where we don't take care of some hateful, nasty, antisocial joker who'd punch us right in the nose if he/she weren't in restraints and/or badly outnumbered (some still take a swing, though they usually don't make that mistake twice).

Kudos, Ms. Osborne... well done.
 
rrtt22
2007-03-15 6:32:40 PM  
-1 for sleazy subby
 
pestossimo
2007-03-15 6:33:36 PM  
Ugh. I need to renew my CPR cert.
 
The Anti-Laura
2007-03-15 6:34:15 PM  
Give them both the chair.
 
The Grinch
2007-03-15 6:35:06 PM  
-1 for masculine pronouns, subby. Landlord was a 77-year-old woman.
 
seithon1
2007-03-15 6:37:16 PM  
Okay, to everyone complaining.
At 77 she probably had a full on beard anyhow.

Move along folks.
 
toonz
2007-03-15 6:38:49 PM  
The Grinch: -1 for masculine pronouns, subby. Landlord was a 77-year-old woman.

Yeah, but the brush with death made her a MAN!

/I don't even know what the hell I mean by that
 
toonz
2007-03-15 6:40:18 PM  
seithon1
Okay, to everyone complaining.
At 77 she probably had a full on beard anyhow.

Why not? Tom Cruise had one in less than half that time...
/sorry
 
inferiorcatwoman
2007-03-15 6:44:08 PM  
Without details on why the landlord was suing her tenant, I find it hard to care. Not about her brush with death, that's sad and I'm glad she'll maybe/possibly she'll see 78, but about the article.
 
kore
2007-03-15 6:44:11 PM  
Too bad TFA doesn't say whether or not the subby's statement is true concerning the complaint. WTF? I wanted to rant about the 77-year-old [man].
 
Kanemano
2007-03-15 6:48:56 PM  
can't beat a dead horse
 
Charmaniac
2007-03-15 6:50:41 PM  
You too can become a hero on Fark.com by merely being in the right place at the right time.
 
Nakito
2007-03-15 6:59:30 PM  
a week doesn't go by where we don't take care of some hateful, nasty, antisocial joker

What if the nurse was the party at fault?

What if the nurse was the tenant from hell?

What if the nurse caused the stress that led to the landlord's heart attack by, say, lying on the stand? Consider: "As I presented my case, she just started shaking and her eyes rolled back in her head."

Not saying that these things are necessarily true. Just saying that the landlady isn't necessarily a hateful, antisocial joker just because she had a legal dispute with the nurse.

Still, the nurse did the right thing by putting aside their differences for the moment, so kudos for that.
 
feepness
2007-03-15 7:01:16 PM  
Tastes Like Chicken: Subby: ... him .... his .... he'll .... he's....

TFA: Genevieve

Like you don't know at LEAST half-a-dozen guys named Genevieve.
 
feepness
2007-03-15 7:02:18 PM  
Nakito: What if the nurse was the party at fault?

What if the nurse was the tenant from hell?

This is America.

All tenants are, by definition, innocent.

All landlords are, by definition, guilty.
 
kevsonic
2007-03-15 7:03:28 PM  
Charmaniac

You've got some pretty high standards, then. Wanna go into some detail as to how you came by them?
 
_
2007-03-15 7:11:01 PM  
[image from costumesbyscavenge.com too old to be available]

Sign me up.
 
ApeMan
2007-03-15 7:17:22 PM  
TTIUWP

wait, the other girl was 77. Mind bleach!

/good story, actually - nice to read about good deeds

//wish it had more details about the suit
 
kevsonic
2007-03-15 7:20:59 PM  
//wish it had more details about the suit

I agree. The CPR and the suit should have no bearing on each other whatsoever, but I'm curious, I'll admit.
 
Apocalypse Pony
2007-03-15 7:24:11 PM  
Well played, Toonz!
 
Prickly Pete
2007-03-15 7:42:28 PM  
77? Dang, CPR on her must have sounded like sitting on a bag of pretzels.
 
WayneBuckwheat
2007-03-15 7:52:50 PM  
"Okay, to everyone complaining.
At 77 she probably had a full on beard anyhow.

Move along folks."

Otay, whuz up, you count the pubes in the panties?
Hirstat city.....
 
Fluid
2007-03-15 7:57:13 PM  
[image from inmusicwetrust.com too old to be available]

have a better idea of how to handle landlords...
 
HeAintHeavy
2007-03-15 8:01:25 PM  
Nakito

Maybe I wasn't clear on my point.

I'm not saying the nurse wasn't the tenant from hell... just making a point about taking care of people who persecute/hate you (whether they have a legitimate reason to or not).

It's not easy, but it is your obligation and professional duty. I'm just glad to see the nurse do the right thing and rise to the occasion.
 
feckingmorons [TotalFark]
2007-03-15 8:05:37 PM  
Better article (original source)
http://www.delcotimes.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18075721&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_ id=18171&rfi=6
 
ta2mama
2007-03-15 8:45:40 PM  
HeAin'tHeavy, I agree with your comments. In fact, had some of those today, ETOH, belligerent, etc. etc. Stayed as sweet as honey to them.
 
Bronto Saurus
2007-03-15 8:48:01 PM  
Nurses rock.
 
Castor8281
2007-03-15 9:01:50 PM  
feepness: All tenants are, by definition, innocent.

All landlords are, by definition, guilty.

Truer words have never been spoken!!

/Landlord
 
Illfindsomething
2007-03-15 9:06:17 PM  
>The Anti-Laura : Give them both the chair.

You made me choke on my coffee.
 
jafiwam
2007-03-15 9:13:47 PM  
Usually in court (ok, the two times I have been in) they start out with "so and so" the "does what for living" living at "place name" during the intro.

So everybody knew she was a nurse. So it's not like she could have just sat there and watched.
 
Ratio of Cake
2007-03-15 10:09:59 PM  
It's a good thing she lived - otherwise they would have put the nurse in jail saying that she assaulted her.
 
mesmer242
2007-03-15 10:10:30 PM  
More info here: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18075721&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=18 171&rfi=6

But still nothing on what the suit's about.
 
doobie77
2007-03-15 10:50:40 PM  
This hardly even addresses the most important question: why don't nurses wear stockings with their uniform anymore?
 
uidzero
2007-03-15 10:57:05 PM  
Castor8281

Truer words have never been spoken!!

/Landlord

If people had -ANY- idea about it...

/Landlord
 
dwarfedshadow
2007-03-15 11:35:31 PM  
Ratio of Cake

It's a good thing she lived - otherwise they would have put the nurse in jail saying that she assaulted her.

Most states have a Good Samaritan law, they wouldn't be able to say she assaulted the victim, although they might make a good case about negligence if the victim died. Most states don't give a lot of protection to people who are either trained or declare that they are trained.

Having a CPR cert and an EMT license in my backpocket is a dangerous thing.
 
darthBateman
2007-03-15 11:49:15 PM  
Is it wrong I heard the article in my head in JD's voice from Scrubs?
 
RN_student
2007-03-16 12:07:22 AM  
i came here for a hot nurse pic and was not dissapointed!
 
SpiderQueenDemon
2007-03-16 1:29:37 AM  
Nurses are generally a bunch of insanely cool people. I trust them more than doctors in most cases. They do rock.
 
BobTheFirstJr
2007-03-16 8:56:18 AM  
dwarfedshadow: Most states don't give a lot of protection to people who are either trained or declare that they are trained.

While anyone can be sued, in order to lose such a suit, you'd have to be proven to have been negligent in the care you provided. Following the "ABC's" of CPR should make it pretty hard to find you negligent, I'd think.

RN, CPR Instructor Trainer, EMT
 
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