You've got to wonder sometimes if this whole "human rights" thing hasn't gone too far:
A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.
The union, NU'91, is calling the campaign "I Draw The Line Here," with an advert that features a young woman covering her face with crossed hands.
A more effective advert would show a trio of brawny Dutch-Calvinist nurses advancing with a pillow...
Posted by EBD at March 15, 2010 7:35 AMor a really dull #37 needle & a gleam in her eye.
Posted by: Fred at March 15, 2010 8:34 AMDo they have an ample enough supply of male nurses to cover all possibil combos?
Gotta look after the sick gals right?
One rubber glove pulled up to the elbow, and a predatory smile.
Although I suppose for some that could be construed as a come-on...
Posted by: The Phantom at March 15, 2010 8:43 AMi am not sure how that would work ..say your married to one of the nurses and she becomes prego? or she get's an std or hiv ...or what ever...and i wonder if muslim women would refuse to wash there hands ...there are so many thing's wrong with this ....LMAO!! liberalism is a mental disorder in japan it actually IS described as a mental disorder...
Paul in calgary
Posted by: paul at March 15, 2010 8:44 AMGives a new meaning to the term "Head Nurse".
Wonder what NEW thinks of all this?
Posted by: atric at March 15, 2010 8:56 AMI ain't touching this........
Posted by: sasquatch at March 15, 2010 8:59 AMA story with no happy ending.....
Posted by: Al the frozen fish in Manitoba at March 15, 2010 9:24 AMFirmly grasp penis in left hand exposing only the tip.
Observe patient experiencing pleasure.
Clench right hand into a fist, raise fist above head level and slam it into penis tip.
Observe nurse experiencing pleasure.
Observe every male who read my last post suddenly bending over and protecting their groin.
Posted by: NeilD at March 15, 2010 9:30 AMAlohafalls in the comments "When sex is involved, geography suffers", after someone says something about the Danes. Now that is funny.
Posted by: gobi desert at March 15, 2010 10:30 AMDutch patients figure that "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" should be a part of a nurses duties while Brits have to call 911 for a glass of water. Canadian nurses will get your water but only if your gurney is safely parked in the hallway outside of Emerg.
Posted by: Texas Canuck at March 15, 2010 10:34 AMI wonder if all those patients demanding such "personalized" services are A) Male and B) of a particular religion ?
Just wondering . . .
Posted by: Fred at March 15, 2010 11:08 AMa number of years ago , some welfare cases demanded that money enough for "services" be put in their cheques as well. it was hard to attract a girlfriend being poor he said, and urges as not income related.
Posted by: cal2 at March 15, 2010 11:46 AMUnionized female government workers vs a handicapped person....
OMG, the commmission's head will explode!
Posted by: Stephen at March 15, 2010 11:50 AMFrom a health perspective nurses don't like to observe anything coming out of a penis, including the wrinkles.
Posted by: glasnost at March 15, 2010 11:55 AMWow, a "National Campaign"!
One can understand the need for "unionized" health care workers in the system, eh?
So what- now we gotta tip the gawd dang nurses?
That said, such an amendment to the Senate bill might sway some Blue Dog Democrates.
I guess the Dutch have done their part to stimulate the economy.
Posted by: Indiana Homez at March 15, 2010 11:56 AMFor some, public healthcare IS a free-ride.
Posted by: Indiana Homez at March 15, 2010 12:13 PMI guess the Republicans are right- for some, healthcare IS a free-ride.
I’ve now changed my position on the healthcare debate.
Breaking News: Sarah Palin warns Americans of looming Breast Panels.
Posted by: Indiana Homez at March 15, 2010 12:51 PMSaltpeter in the saline drip?
So sorry Mr. Van Pike, but your chart was mistakenly marked for that sex change operation.
Posted by: Oz at March 15, 2010 12:51 PMglasnost, you owe me a new keyboard. ROFL
Posted by: Texas Canuck at March 15, 2010 12:58 PMSo if sexual services is added to a nurse's duties, will she qualify for dual trade wages?
Posted by: LC Bennett at March 15, 2010 12:59 PMAfter doing some serious research on the topic I found this somewhat related story:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aVUcop17mg7s
It seems Denmark is wrestling with the same issue.
Posted by: Al the frozen fish in Manitoba at March 15, 2010 1:00 PMI'd like to see the application form.
Check one:
Spit _
Swallow _
Neither _
If you want to discourage hospitalized Dutch patients from wanting to have sex with their nurses, all you need to do is trade their nurses for our fat slobs most of whom are out with back problems half the time.
Think I am kidding? Go to a hospital and with the exception of a few nurses whose goal in life is to marry a doctor then rest are just overfed protoplasm.
Posted by: Abe Froman at March 15, 2010 1:05 PMAgreed ABE !!!! LOL
Posted by: paul at March 15, 2010 1:16 PMLaugh all you like but epididymal hypertension or vasocongestion can be a very serious and frustrating medical condition. I've had this affliction quite often over the years.
Posted by: ChrisinMB at March 15, 2010 1:38 PMChrisinMB at 1:38, doesn't that call for surgery rather than physiotherapy?
Posted by: glasnost at March 15, 2010 1:53 PMLaugh all you like but epididymal hypertension or vasocongestion can be a very serious and frustrating medical condition. I've had this affliction quite often over the years.
Try masturbation with your own hand. Its economical and allows nurses to spend more time in the cafeteria.
Posted by: Abe Froman at March 15, 2010 1:56 PMthat affliction is proportional to the length of time you have been married.
Posted by: cal2 at March 15, 2010 2:02 PMWould this be considered private health care?
Posted by: Rob at March 15, 2010 2:11 PMStaff nurses on a typical Dutch proctology ward.
http://www.arnehistorie.com/images/meisjes.jpg
With tools of the trade.
Your call on the "extra duties."
Making health care profitable!
Posted by: Gus at March 15, 2010 3:03 PMThe Dutch are crazy, you know.
Posted by: Black Mamba at March 15, 2010 3:14 PMSend a male nurse instead.
Or, employ HIV positive nurses to send to such filthy patients.
Posted by: safety forced at March 15, 2010 3:16 PM*
that's nothin'... i think we must have a criminal's union down
in belleville, ontario...
"Deputy Chief Vandegraaf told 91X news in an email Sunday,
they are not releasing the man's name because, in his words --
'There are issues that we have to be sensitive about'."
"He would not elaborate on what those issues were."
they're not releasing his name... just, well... him.
p.s. - his crime... he pointed a gun at a cop.
*
Posted by: neo at March 15, 2010 3:24 PMThe boys here seem to have missed the most salacious part of the story. She alleges that other nurses did provide the extra service.
"The young woman witnessed some of the man's other nurses offering him sexual gratification, the union said. When she refused to do the same, he tried to dismiss her on the grounds that she was unfit to provide care."
That's what the union and hospital should investigate: extra pay for over and above.
Posted by: gellen at March 15, 2010 3:28 PMExtra pay for 'over and above' aka "sex" is called prostitution and if the union goes for it, they are called pimps.
Ain't liberalism grand?
Posted by: Abe Froman at March 15, 2010 3:43 PMOne nurse said to her more fetching colleague, "That man has a strange tattoo on his penis with the word Swan" to which the more fetching nurse replied, "I saw that yesterday ... only it said Saskatchewan".
I never thought I'd see the day when this cornpoke humour would be on or close to on topic.
Posted by: Me No Dhimmi at March 15, 2010 4:18 PMUser pay.
Posted by: Cjunk at March 15, 2010 4:22 PMI find the references to Canadian nurses quite offensive. I recntly spent two weeks in Rockyview in Calgary. From the moment the ambulance got me to Emergency I was treated expeditiously and with respect. When you are really ill it doesn't matter what the care giver looks like, just that she/he does their job. Within two hours of arrival I had an MRI and a diagnosis.
By the way, the best nurse I had over the two weeks was a european man who took the time to give me detailed information that was vital to my well being.
In the Canadian system there definately is rationing. If you are really sick you get looked after quickly, but if you are borderline you get to wait for six or eioght hours in Emergency.
Gerry in Calgary
Posted by: GerryM at March 15, 2010 5:46 PMAbe, I have an even better idea.
Trade the Dutch nurses for Air Canada flight attendants.
Posted by: TJ at March 15, 2010 6:03 PMI make it a habit not to pith off people that can leave me wallowing in my own filth or cause it.
Posted by: Speedy at March 15, 2010 6:33 PMFrozen fish, good one, eh.
Stephen, yep, you got it right.
Indiana Homez, cough!
Just wondering...unions are whores or are all whores unionized. Just wondering, doesn't matter...
Let's see if I can tell the joke and still remain in the bounds of good taste.
A hospital administrator is taking one of their financial patrons on a tour. Glancing in a door to her left, the patron sees a man furiously servicing himself.
Alarmed, she asks the admin exactly what is goin on. The admin says that the man has a chronic condition and his behavior is solely to relieve his intense discomfort.
The patron is mollified by his explanation, but glancing in another room further down the hall, she sees only the top of a nurses head as it bobs rapidly up and down.
Again, she is mortified and demands an explanation. The administrator tells her, "Same conditon, better health plan."
Rim shot, please.
Posted by: No Guff at March 15, 2010 8:45 PMWhat happens when Islamists start asking for 9 year old nurses?
Posted by: Revnant Dream at March 15, 2010 8:58 PMBlack Mamba
""""The Dutch are crazy, you know.""""
I resemble that remark!!!!:-)))
Posted by: GYM at March 15, 2010 9:06 PMIf you are healthy enough to demand sex, then you are healthy enough to go home. or for that matter handle the problem yourself.
mike
Posted by: mike at March 15, 2010 9:07 PMHospitals turned into brothels.
A post card of the times.
Doesn't matter, you'll still get screwed by the system.
Posted by: Bernie at March 15, 2010 9:36 PMSo, who pays for the condoms, contraceptive pills, medications to treat STDs, etc. for the nurses?
I never knew that putting one's life on the line -- while pleasuring someone else's -- was part of a nurse's job.
This is a joke, right?
Posted by: batb at March 15, 2010 9:39 PMMethinks that EBD is laughing his/her ass off by now. Right EBD?
Posted by: Zog at March 15, 2010 9:43 PMSee! I told them this would happen when they got rid of Head Nurses...
Posted by: DaninVan at March 16, 2010 2:16 AMAbe, the 'over and above' in my post was an attempt at bawdy humour. Very English you know, and this is so much like a premise for an English TV series.
Posted by: gellen at March 16, 2010 3:02 PM
Conceivably, there are those who experience more eroticism with the nurses insertion of the anal thermometer, than the prostate check. Of course it all depends, one supposes, on whether the nurse is male or female. And that's all I'm going to comment on THAT!
Posted by: larben at March 16, 2010 7:42 PMJust wondering what Calvinists have to do with this issue.
A 6'3" 230lb Dutch Calvinist. :)
Posted by: Dutch Calvinist at March 17, 2010 9:11 AM