Large ladies in the NHS
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Accompanying the wife for consultations in hospitals in Swindon and Newbury, I am struck by the number of slightly to extremely overweight ladies that I see working there, either behind desks or as nurses.
Is it just this area, or is this a common thing? Seems that working somewhere like a hospital, people would be more health conscious?
Is it just this area, or is this a common thing? Seems that working somewhere like a hospital, people would be more health conscious?
singlecoil said:
Accompanying the wife for consultations in hospitals in Swindon and Newbury, I am struck by the number of slightly to extremely overweight ladies that I see working there, either behind desks or as nurses.
Is it just this area, or is this a common thing? Seems that working somewhere like a hospital, people would be more health conscious?
What do you think happens to all the chocolate patients give to the nurses? They stuff their faces all day, eating huge tins of Cadbury's Favourites etc..... did you notice that the Doctors were all scrawny and underfed?
silversun said:
Whatever happened to raising patient morale.
It's not my morale they used to raise
Wasn't there some old duffer a couple of years back who said publicly that nurses should be wearing stockings and suspenders to make the patients feel better?
and he was right
Jaglover said:
Whatever happened to raising patient morale.
It's not my morale they used to raise
Wasn't there some old duffer a couple of years back who said publicly that nurses should be wearing stockings and suspenders to make the patients feel better?
and he was right
That would play havoc with the blood pressure readings though
Jaglover said:
Whatever happened to that nurse fantasy, it just doesn't work as well with those clinical outfits they're all wearing now
Tell me about it
Whatever happened to raising patient morale.
My ex used to work for the NHS, I was looking forward to seeing her in uniform until she told me she wore trousers to work. I mean trousers, what is the world coming to.
968 said:
Accompanying the wife for consultations in hospitals in Swindon and Newbury, I am struck by the number of slightly to extremely overweight ladies that I see working there, either behind desks or as nurses.
Is it just this area, or is this a common thing? Seems that working somewhere like a hospital, people would be more health conscious?
What do you think happens to all the chocolate patients give to the nurses? They stuff their faces all day, eating huge tins of Cadbury's Favourites etc..... did you notice that the Doctors were all scrawny and underfed?
I've noticed doctors are scrawny and underfed, why is that?
I had to see a dietician at the NHS hospital in Bristol, I nearly died not from being overweight but from meeting my dietician, she was about 25 years old and at least 20 stone. I had a real hard time taking her at all serious when clearly she ate all the pies and the biscuits and the chocolate. There si a weight problem in the NHS no doubt.
Jaglover said:
Whatever happened to raising patient morale.
It's not my morale they used to raise
Wasn't there some old duffer a couple of years back who said publicly that nurses should be wearing stockings and suspenders to make the patients feel better?
and he was right
There are a huge number of nurses who agree with you (my wife was one) who were pretty angry they had their sexy uniforms replaced with trousers and smocks. The uniforms, at least at the Middlesex where she trained, were highly prized items and much care was taken to ensure that they were worn correctly (brown stockings for student nurses, black for qualified etc).
The new uniforms were, in her opinion, foisted upon them by "mealy-mouthed lefties" who wanted to make the nurses look like cleaners. Taking awaty their uniform was bit like making the Blues and Royals wear boiler suits when on parade.
r988 said:
Accompanying the wife for consultations in hospitals in Swindon and Newbury, I am struck by the number of slightly to extremely overweight ladies that I see working there, either behind desks or as nurses.
Is it just this area, or is this a common thing? Seems that working somewhere like a hospital, people would be more health conscious?
What do you think happens to all the chocolate patients give to the nurses? They stuff their faces all day, eating huge tins of Cadbury's Favourites etc..... did you notice that the Doctors were all scrawny and underfed?
I've noticed doctors are scrawny and underfed, why is that?
Nurses get to the chocolate first....Also lack of time to get a proper meal (at least in my day)... I remember when I was a houseman, breakfast would consist of a can of coke and a mars bar, after an allnighter on call, then faced with a full day afterwards....
Also nurses get alloted 'breaktimes' and GOD FORBID you if you disturb them on their breaktime.....
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