Why do some news items go unnoticed?

[emmie]

There are some news worthy items that seem to get totally ignored.
I know that some are not worth making a fuss over, but some things like
the hospital nurse who is in custody, and may have murdered at least five people, two who died today i believe, hasn't been mentioned on AB, or at least i don't think it has.

[emmie]

sqad, you and i both know that isn't necessarily the case. The ones i have been in contact weren't dedicated, just doing their job, and even then not well.

[venator]

Thanks, Bobbi - my wife would be ahead of you with the insulin, anyway!

I don't feel we've heard the full story yet on this business.

[plautus]

In the days of capital punishment those found guilty of the murder of vulnerable people in their care were never reprieved from the gallows, be they male or female, it being considered the grossest breach of trust.

[emmie]

Harold Shipman, a doctor, murdered over 200 hundred. And there have been any number of others, the people that we trust with our lives when we are ill or go into hospital.

[Bobbisox]

em, in those we trust, I agree, and as venator said, we have not heard the last of this story

[emmie]

I know, but for some reason, even though i have now seen the other post, it seemed to go by the by. And i don't know anything about Jo Yates post, that would have been before i joined AB.

[jackthehat]

Ah....but those who assassinate characters on here usually have a deeper understanding of the character which they are about to assassinate...

[Bobbisox]

it's a normal thing em, everyone was saying how evil he looked (me included) and he turned out to be innocent after all

[Bobbisox]

but if you get assassinated you die JTH..?
instead of rising from the ashes ;-)

[venator]

In the "good old days", not 100 years ago, doctors & midwives would allow patients with no quality of life to fade away. Terminal patients in pain were given the famous Brompton Cocktail.

The saying then was "thou shalt not kill, but needest not strive
officiously to keep alive"

In the present day, this is absolutely wrong from a moral and legal standpoint, but it would be easy for someone to convince themselves that it was OK.

[Bobbisox]

I would hate to have to make such a decision if it were legalized tho

[jackthehat]

I don't think anyone has ever died 'of AB', bobbi.......

[Bobbisox]

true Jth, true :-)

[emmie]

I don't think that this would apply in this case. If saline solutions were deliberately tampered with as they have indicated.
In the good old days, well perhaps doctors did that, but isn't that saying they know for sure what quality of life is, and you as the patient don't.
And i do know a doctor who did just that, and no i didn't agree with it, but
it wasn't my call to make.

[venator]

I see what you mean, em10 - if the saline was tampered with while in storage, it would be premeditated murder.

[emmie]

Venator Indeed that seems to be the inference.

[Safiya]

em i was being daft hence the ;) at the end of the sentence

bobbi...i would have but it had already been said.....