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Post by ♫anna♫ on Dec 7, 2012 16:37:52 GMT
Some Austrailian DJs impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles and called the hospital where Kate Middleton was staying to inquire about her health, etc. ( she's having a child ). The nurse in charge ( who died strangly afterwards ) doesn't seem at all suspicious and tells the "Queen" + "Prince Charles" everything.
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Post by Hunny on Dec 7, 2012 16:44:48 GMT
She died afterwards??!!! wow...hmm. Well I'm sure that's just a coincidence
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Dec 7, 2012 16:46:32 GMT
She died afterwards??!!! wow...hmm. Well I'm sure that's just a coincidence This makes me think of the phrase: "Dying of embarassment".
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Post by jean on Dec 7, 2012 19:52:45 GMT
I am absolutely disgusted at the way the BBC reported this- playing the recording of the nurse taking the 'prank' call over and over again on every news bulletin.
It was never funny. And the poor nurse, who wasn't English and probably wasn't familiar with the nuances of the Queen's ultra-RP accent, was held up to ridicule every five minutes.
The incident need never have been reported at all, and someone's life might not have been needlessly lost.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 20:33:18 GMT
Jean, it would have been good in a way if all the British press decided to bury this, but it was a terrible deception by the Australian journalist and as such was newsworthy.
I am very saddened at the death of the nurse. It isn't hard to imagine what she was going through, and I wonder if the hospital offered any support.
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Post by jean on Dec 7, 2012 21:57:14 GMT
I suppose it had to be reported.
But it was the constant playing of that clip of the call that stuck in my craw.
(The hospital said they had supported her - and the Duke and Duchess said they had made no complaint.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2012 6:59:12 GMT
I never heard the clip: only a brief report of what happened.
We will learn more from the inquest but it is possible that the nurse had other problems in her life and this was the final push over the edge. But I know that if I was in her position I would feel awful - even though I wasn't the one who actually gave out the information.
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Post by Hunny on Dec 8, 2012 9:13:50 GMT
I never heard the clip: only a brief report of what happened. We will learn more from the inquest but it is possible that the nurse had other problems in her life and this was the final push over the edge. But I know that if I was in her position I would feel awful - even though I wasn't the one who actually gave out the information. This is lame to ask, but I just haven't been following the news last couple days. Are you saying she killed herself over it? Is that what happened?
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Post by iamjumbo on Dec 8, 2012 9:53:04 GMT
I never heard the clip: only a brief report of what happened. We will learn more from the inquest but it is possible that the nurse had other problems in her life and this was the final push over the edge. But I know that if I was in her position I would feel awful - even though I wasn't the one who actually gave out the information. This is lame to ask, but I just haven't been following the news last couple days. Are you saying she killed herself over it? Is that what happened? apparently. she obviously didn't care about her husband and two kids. it's pretty damn ridiculous committing suicide over ANYTHING, but totally abjectly stupid to do it over a joke
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2012 17:11:11 GMT
Jumbo, people who are dragged down and humiliated like that might well end up feeling that their famiy is better off without them.
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Post by mikemarshall on Dec 8, 2012 20:03:35 GMT
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Post by jean on Dec 8, 2012 23:19:11 GMT
It didn't worry the BBC too much to humiliate poor Jacintha Saldanha, who first answered the phone, by playing her conversation with the hoaxers time after time - but of course they did not play the second conversation, where details of the Duchess's condition were discussed.
The Duchess had to be protected; the nurse didn't matter.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2012 0:47:58 GMT
What jean said. Frankly I'm tired of the rich getting special treatment each and every time, while the every day Joe or Jane gets trampled on. Why should one life be worth so much more than another, simply because they have more money? That's what it boils down to.
The nurse may have been already depressed to have taken her life over something like this. I do wonder if she was not harshly reprimanded by her superiors. If so, that's so very wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2012 18:47:10 GMT
The hospital says she wasn't facing any disciplinary proceedings and that they were supporting her. I'm not sure why the BBC thought fit to broadcast the conversation but I am disappointed that they did, though I must have had a hibernation spell that day because I never heard it. But apparently social networking sites, including message boards, had been baying for her to be sacked. For goodness sake, what a sick society we live in.
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Post by jean on Dec 10, 2012 14:45:29 GMT
The DJs have spoken today - is heartbroken quite the right word for them to use to describe their feelings? Isn't that a word you use of a trauma that someone else has inflicted on you?
Another thing has become clear: while she was working away from home, Jacintha Saldanha stayed in hospital accommodation, alone, only returning to her family (who would have been the ones best able to support her) at the end of the week.
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Post by sadie1263 on Dec 10, 2012 14:55:57 GMT
Well.....I think it is awful that she choose suicide as a solution. Like Jim stated....she had a husband and kids to live for..........think she should have been fighting mad and turned it around on the awful DJ's.......also think the hospital should have allowed her time off and mandated some counseling or something.
I think it was an idiot prank........and those happen all the time. There were other choices for her.....
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Post by jean on Dec 10, 2012 15:38:45 GMT
Like Jim stated...she had a husband and kids to live for... No-one should ever presume to judge what drives another person to take their own life, nor dare to suggest that they did it out of mere self-regard. What the hospital should clearly (with hindsight of course) have done is cancel the rest of her shift and send her straight home to her family after the incident, and not allowed her to spend a lonely night in hospital accommodation.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2012 16:47:31 GMT
Is that what happened? How very depressing for her. Unless she had the support of other nurses, the incident must have gone round and round in her head.
However from what is being said she died three days after the hoax incident. Was that because the tape wasn't broadcast at once?
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Post by jean on Dec 10, 2012 17:24:03 GMT
The call was on Tuesday, but details weren't released until thre following day because the radio station sought legal advice before broadcasting it. It was all over the airwaves here on Thursday, I think. It was on Thursday night that Jacintha Saldanha killed herself. www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/07/kates-admission-hoax-nurses-death-timelineShe lived in Bristol, and normally stayed in hospital accommodation in London during the week, returning to her family at the weekend. What isn't clear is why she didn't speak to them on the phone or something. But when you reach such depths of anguish, sometimes you can't make the effort to contact anyone. To be alone at night is the worst thing in those circumstances.
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Post by sadie1263 on Dec 10, 2012 19:14:46 GMT
No-one should ever presume to judge what drives another person to take their own life, nor dare to suggest that they did it out of mere self-regard. What the hospital should clearly (with hindsight of course) have done is cancel the rest of her shift and send her straight home to her family after the incident, and not allowed her to spend a lonely night in hospital accommodation. I have a friend whose mother committed suicide when she was a child. It has affected her whole life......her self esteem, her relationships, her weight, etc. We are not trying to presume what drove her........just suggesting that she had quite a bit to live for......and a wish.....just a wish.....that she could have had the ability to look at that. I have had other friends that have committed suicide or family members that did.......while they might have felt it was the only way out.....they seem to not realize the devastation that it causes in their wake. It is a final solution to what is often a fleeting problem. But because of either emotional (sometimes lifelong, sometimes quite short) issues.......they often fail to see the people and situation around them clearly. It is a tragic choice.
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