Comments on Dr Rant: Nurses Day

It was only the sanitary comission sent out from B...

2008-05-12T21:53:00.000+01:00

It was only the sanitary comission sent out from Britain 6 months after she arrived that managed to lower the death rate by flushing out the sewers and improving ventilation.

Top notch Flo-bashing!

Have you consider the confounding variables?

Crowding, nutritional state of the men, etc etc.

Oh, but the good old 'sanitary comission' turned up to save the chaps from the silly woman did they?

Clever them, turning up in March, right after a harsh as fuck winter for which the British and French troops were not equipped!

Remember all those pictures of German soldiers starving to death in the snow at Stalingrad (now called Volgograd) 80 odd years later ? Have a look on a map - it's not far away from Crimea.

Probably had nothing to do with it mind.....

Not only was Flo a kickass powerhouse, she was a b...

2008-05-12T21:33:00.000+01:00

Not only was Flo a kickass powerhouse, she was a bit of a tease too.

Flo drove politicos like Richard Monckton Milnes and Sidney Herbert near crazy, although it is unclear if either suitor made much headway against her crisply starched undergarments ?

Perhaps we could set a similar honeytrap for Mr Postman - any volunteers ? sadly my hairy legs rule me out straight away.......obviously

Thanks Dr Rant Team!

2008-05-12T20:57:00.000+01:00

Thanks Dr Rant Team!

Florence is the frequent subject of criticism that...

2008-05-12T20:31:00.000+01:00

Florence is the frequent subject of criticism that is largely thinly-veiled anti-nurse and misogynist in origin. Sadly, more and more nurses have a negative view of her too.

She was the first nurse and she was strong enough to take on the complete twats in charge of medicine at the time (no change there then) and win. The twaterati were not well pleased and spent much time trying to undermine her.

It was Nightingale herself that demonstrated that the death rate was continuing to climb, and it was Nightingale herself who was instrumental on her return to Britain in showing that the hidden underlying cause - the problems with overcrowding and poor ventilation/sewage disposal.

Sadly, many nurses seem unwilling to defend her because of her 'handmaiden' image - although quite how a kick-ass powerhouse like Nightingale who tore through the misogynism and power of an arrogant and complacent medical twaterati ever got stuck with a 'handmaiden' image is a mystery to me.

Team Rant will hear no criticism of Our Flo!

Hey what's all the fuss about Florence Nightingale...

2008-05-12T19:40:00.000+01:00

Hey what's all the fuss about Florence Nightingale?

Despite her deep cleaning the hospital (Selimiye Barracks in Scutari, Crimea) and reorganising patient care she sent the mortality rates up.

It was only the sanitary comission sent out from Britain 6 months after she arrived that managed to lower the death rate by flushing out the sewers and improving ventilation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

*Salutes. Thank you TeamRant. (Imagines Seacole an...

2008-05-12T12:09:00.000+01:00

*Salutes.

Thank you TeamRant.

(Imagines Seacole and Nightingale, tag team style, making short work of Hewitt and Milburn.)