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To: TornadoAlley3

Why didn’t these women have each other on the list of people allowed to see them in the hospital? I have to keep a card in my wallet to let my pastor come to visit me, otherwise they won’t let him in. Everyone can do this, are they just so freaking stupid as to not know this?


2 posted on 04/21/2010 7:48:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
She was on the list, but she upset the patient too much. Nurse's responsibility is to care for the patient.
5 posted on 04/21/2010 7:59:38 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Maybe you should try suing for religious discrimination. I’m sure the ACLU would back you completely. /s


9 posted on 04/21/2010 8:11:11 PM PDT by Julia H. (Freedom of speech and freedom from criticism are mutually exclusive.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
That wasn't the issue ~ it was simply about the administration of care. The nurses' job was to make sure the care was provided. The visitor wanted to take off the other woman's breathing mask.

It usually never occurs to the GLBT crowd that sometimes it's not about them and their pudenda.

13 posted on 04/21/2010 8:18:48 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Secret Agent Man

As a nurse, my duty is to protect and promote the health of my patient. If I see my patient’s O2 level is dropping to a dangerous level because the client is taking off their mask to speak to a visitor, I would say to the visitor “Ms. Doe needs to keep the mask on at all times, please encourage her to do so”. If the opposite happens, I am kicking them out, even if they have permission to be there. We are not there to treat the visitors, but the patient.


15 posted on 04/21/2010 9:25:59 PM PDT by brwnsuga (Black and Free!!!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“Why didn’t these women have each other on the list of people allowed to see them in the hospital?

From the article-

“Reed had legal documentation of their relationship that outlined her right to oversee her partner’s health care, according to Judith Lonnquist, Reed’s lawyer. Lonnquist said that Hulley never read the documents.”

The nurse testified that she barred the woman from the room not because of a the homosexual connection between the two, but because her presence was agitating the patient and because of that the patient’s condition was being negatively affected.


21 posted on 04/22/2010 1:39:20 AM PDT by Mila
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