Sep 29 2005
Psychos in England
Admiring babies is wrong in one hospital… Don’t dare ask questions or stare at them…
A statement from Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax said staff had held an advice session to highlight the need for respect and dignity for patients.
On one ward there is a doll featuring the message: “What makes you think I want to be looked at?”
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“We often get visitors wandering over to peer into cots but people sometimes touch or talk about the baby like they would if they were examining tins in a supermarket and that should not happen.”
A: People should not be touching any infants that aren’t their own anyway, so why are infants in an area accessible to the general public to begin with?
B: So what if they look!?
This is what pre-occupies people’s minds in hospitals in England.
Source: BBC via Tonguetied
September 30th, 2005 at 9:36 am
I think looking is Ok, (Your right, Why are they publicly acceeable!??!) But photo’s are definitely a No-No.
October 7th, 2005 at 8:20 am
Erm… not really. I live in England and I’ve never heard this before.
But you would take any chance to mock anything foreign wouldn’t you?
October 7th, 2005 at 8:38 am
Except that the story is a BBC story, so the mockery, in your case, is local. Nice try, though. Just discount it because someone from the US mentioned it. Just be sure to ignore the source while you’re at it.