Lord Mancroft told the House of Lords that he was treated at the hospital in 2007, and described the nurses as "grubby and drunken".
"The nurses that looked after me were mostly grubby. We're talking about dirty fingernails, slipshod, lazy."
The hospital said it had received no complaint but would be contacting Lord Mancroft to discuss the matter.
Yes, nurses should be held to high standards, should take care of their appearance and personal hygiene as a fundamental requirement of working with hospital patients. And DRUNKEN, you say? They were drinking on the job? They should be sacked!
Oh, no. Nothing so serious. Here's what he ACTUALLY means.
"It's a miracle I'm still alive. But worst of all my Lords they were drunken and promiscuous."
"How do I know that? Because if you're a patient and you're lying in a bed, and you're being nursed from either side, they talk across you as if you're not there.
"So I know exactly what they got up to the night before, and how much they drank, and I know exactly what they were planning to do the next night, and I can tell you, it's pretty horrifying."
Emphasis mine.
Nurses shouldn't act like the patient isn't there and shouldn't gab about their personal lives whilst caring for patients, but come ON! WORST OF ALL? Not the lack of hygiene, the careless attitudes, the laziness - no, these nurses DRINK! and have SEX!!! like MEN do sometimes!!!!!!!!! Pass the bleeding smelling salts, I'm not prepared to be cared for by human beings with lives outside their work. If I'm not going to be nursed by teetotal virgin angels that have no vaginas, or at the very least women who pretend to be just like this, I'd rather not be cared for at all.
That's what Mancroft's insinuating, perhaps with less melodrama. By his own wording, he's treating the fact that these nurses go out, drink, and have sex in their free time with as much horror as if they had been drunkenly humping the patients themselves. The real complaints to be found here are
- that the nurses weren't maintaining an acceptable level of hygiene and therefore could be putting patient health at risk
- were discourteous towards their charges
- were scruffy and unprofessional, and
- that drinking heavily the night before going into work could impair their ability to deliver a high standard of care (whilst discussing this in front of a patient will do nothing for their trust in their carers).
THOSE are complaints. 'My nurses like alcohol and have libidos' is not.
Dear Lord Mancroft,
Grow up, lodge real complaints and stop slut-shaming.
Yours,
Mwezzi.
No "kisskisskiss for you". That might be too slutty for your tastes.
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