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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I wish I had the answer for you.
All I can say is that I know how things should be done.
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I was reading an article on care at the end of life the other day and it shocked me to discover that the one thing the elderly fear most is not dying, but going into hospital. I am talking here of people over retirement age.
That is so, so, wrong!
Personally I blame television series like Holby City. They are dramas and they naturally present life in a hospital as edgy, exciting and mawkishly sentimental all wrapped up in youthful idealism with 'attitude'. We are all depressingly aware that the younger generation have a difficulty separating fact from fiction. It is hardly surprising therefore that the idea of nursing as a vocation has gone out of the window and that for this celebrity obsessed generation the idea of doing anything that involves contact with bodily fluids or bodily waste is beneath them and that consequently they regard those who produce such things as equally beneath them. Sadly, from there it is but the very shortest of steps to considering such people as less than human and, quite frankly, a nuisance, really.