[HPforGrownups] more on stereotypes( WAs role models and gender typing)

[Andrew MacIan]

No: HPFGUIDX 33499

Greetings from Andrew!

Two comments in passing....

--- jrober4211 <midwife34 at aol.com> wrote:
{snip}

> I just want to make this observation about her
> character.  She is a 
> nurse and IMHO is portrayed as hateful, impatient,
> and bossy.  Now 
> working as a nurse in an American hospital ( the
> role is a bit 
> different from English nurses as I understand it
> from talking with 
> them), we over here have to literally turn the other
> cheek with 
> irate visitors and patients. 

I also have had no personal interaction with the
British medical system, but it appears to me that
Pomfrey is usually acting more as a PA (physician's
assistant) or as a doc than a nurse, in that she not
only diagnoses a pt but also prescribes (as it were)
and treats.

> I would never dream of
> talking to 
> people the way Madam Pomphrey does and expect to
> keep my job.  Plus, I 
> don't see that she does very much.  In this case, I
> think Madam 
> Pomphrey is portrayed more like a stereotypical
> Nurse Ratchett, and 
> there are no nurses, at least in America ( you might
> get by with it 
> on a military base here), that could get away with
> behaving like she 
> does.  

No personal reflections, but you don't work in the
American version of public medicine or the VA
(Veteran's Administration), do you?  Having had
recourse to both systems, unless I am already
unconscious, I shall literally resist to the point of
self-inflected GSW ere I am placed back in their
"tender mercies".  Bad treatment, bad medicine and bad
food...and too many of my brothers from Nam have been
neglected to death by both systems.

Sorry for the slight rant.

Cheers,

Drieux

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