Would you rather have your leg ulcer dressed by a non-graduate, skilled, caring practitioner who knew what she or he was doing, or by a graduate who didn’t? I have mixed feelings about recent proposals to make nursing an all graduate profession.
I can find three arguments in favour or introducing compulsory graduate status. First, as [...]
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Revolutionary Care Treatment
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Humanity on Nov 1st, 2009
The UK National Health Service (NHS), of course, like Mum’s cooking and apple pie, is wonderful. In times of crisis its nurses and doctors will deal gently and compassionately (if not always as speedily as you would like) in A&E, and will mend broken bones, replace hips, insert stents after heart attacks and perform countless other seeming miracles in [...]

