HOSPITAL COURTESY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 91, 17 April 1936, Page 6

HOSPITAL COURTESY.

After reading "Nurse's" and "Ex-Nurses replies to "Visitor's" letter on hospital cour tesy, one must feel grateful to be a visitor and not a patient, especially if "N u r=ce reply is any indication of her nursing ability or sympathy with her patients. One associates a nurse with a noble profession an expects to find in a nurse a woman to whom it would be distasteful to have to address a man by his surname, be he sick or well. Apart from the fact of whether male patien object to beinsr so addressed, it seems to nie to be a loss of dignity on the nurses part. As "Visitor" rightly says, if that is hospital law the sooner the law is altered the better it will be for the dignity of the hospital. Also the sooner "Nurse" realises that a sick man is entitled to respect and consideration, the sooner "Nurse" and hospital will become less repugnant to patient and visitor alike. AN EX-PATIENT'S WIl'E.