Sujet : Re: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
De : jbeeson (at) *nospam* invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 07. Jul 2025, 18:43:39
Autres entêtes
Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID : <p41o6kd6jertmeomv0hklqmuu9tmq860q4@4ax.com>
References : 1 2 3
User-Agent : Forte Agent 3.2/32.830
On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:57:39 -0400, Joy Beeson
<
jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
Come bedtime Wednesday, I'll be reading Usenet, and with
luck it will take months to find out how _Lost Burgundy_
comes out.
No luck. I know how _Lost Burgundy_ came out, and am a few
chapters into Ethics for Nurses. (1916, IRRC)
Early on it says that first of all, a good nurse is a good
woman, then a few pages later includes a quote that says
that every person in a hospital has his duty.
Shows that they still believed that only women could be
nurses, but had not yet adopted the meme that women were
delicate sub-human creatures who are never included unless
specifically mentioned.
I recall when "male nurse" didn't mean quite the same thing
as "RN", and they worked only in mental hospitals and other
places where an imposing physical presence might be
required.
Mom came home from work once and told us the story of a
patient who wouldn't let a male nurse attend to her until
Mom put her cap on him.
The only caps I've seen at Parkview are the ones on the
call-button icons.
I wonder how many of the people now alive know why there's a
cap on that icon.
Time to put my pajamas into my go bag and go back to
Parkview.
-- Joy Beesonjoy beeson at centurylink dot nethttp://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/