Originally Posted by
John C. Ratliff
Well, that post was also "tongue in cheek." You've got to realize that the way you guys sound on this board, you'd think that wearing a helmet is dangerous, that it can cause further injury, and that people are hospitalized because they wear a helmet. That is the way you (the whole gang here, and it is a gang) sound.
So far as the nurses, maybe I was lucky. I got some in Eugene, Oregon who were great, and who helped us over the radio too; coordinated response with the doctors, etc. It's too bad if you got some nurses who were burned out and blamed patients. That's not right, I agree. But I don't take a post on the internet and infer a personality from a third-person report either.
John
Well, you know humor doesn't always come across well on the in-ter-nets. And if we sound as though we think wearing a helmet will put people in a hospital, you lot sound as though anyone not wearing a helmet every single time he approaches a two-wheeled vehicle will die a lingering (and well-deserved) death while bankrupting the nation. So it cuts both ways.
As to nurses, whenever I hear of a health care professional coming with something along the lines of "Dump 'em. He did it to himself" the word "calloused" comes right to mind -- at least partly because of the time I put in at nursing school. Frankly, I suspect any health care professional who
isn't familiar with that all-too-real stereotype has either not been paying attention or practices in some alternate universe.