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Mandos
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posted 16 May 2003 03:59 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I went to a specialist recently for a problem that the specialist assured me was minor/trivial/benign (a 'dermatofibroma' or something, I was briefly worried it was skin cancer). The nurse who attended me before the doctor and his resident arrived was a guy, and I kept thinking "male nurse" afterwards. Help!
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Trinitty
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posted 16 May 2003 04:02 PM      Profile for Trinitty     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It's okay, you're not evil.

You're just human and noticing something that isn't common.


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Michelle
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posted 16 May 2003 04:58 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ten lashes with a wet noodle!
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'lance
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posted 16 May 2003 05:02 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Tease!
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nonsuch
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posted 16 May 2003 11:24 PM      Profile for nonsuch     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It's not as uncommon as it used to be. When my mother was in hospital a while ago, one of her gentlest, most considerate nurses was named Ron. I was slightly awkward the first time i met him, but by the end of that evening, it seemed the most normal thing in the world that nurses should come in both flavours. Well, isn't it?
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Kindred
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posted 17 May 2003 04:21 AM      Profile for Kindred     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I cannot even believe I am reading this kind of thing on Babble - what if someone posted I got on a plane the other day and the pilot was a woman and all I could think was HELP!!

Males nurses - hardly news worthy seeing as they have been around since the 1970s, if not earlier than that.


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verbatim
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posted 17 May 2003 04:30 AM      Profile for verbatim   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I've had several male nurses when I've been in hospital. My first reaction was "weird," but then I realized that what I was really thinking was "why would this guy settle for Nurse when he could be a Doctor?" I never felt that about female nurses, and so I discovered a dormant expression of the reality of male privilege in my own mind. It was quite enlightening for me, actually.

There's also the classist implication in there too -- where Doctors are more meritorious than Nurses because they had to "work harder" to get where they are (a presumption reinforced by a friend who is a Doctor) when in reality it really means they spent more to get where they are. But this thread is about the male/female issue...


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Michelle
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posted 17 May 2003 06:27 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Kindred, you missed the point. He wasn't saying "help" because he was worried about having a male nurse. He was saying "help" because he was worried about having noticed the gender of the nurse first and foremost.
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