Royal hospital nurse who took hoax call from DJs found dead

[PennyQuilts]

Why is this newsworthy in the USA?

All the anglophiles.

[PennyQuilts]

First of all, I thought the "joke" was tasteless and disrespectful.

Secondly, I think the blame shouldn't be on the radio hosts, but the hospital administration who probably gave the nurse a harsh talk about her being so gullible. Perhaps even put her on notice or demoted her. I doubt the "joke" alone was enough to make her commit suicide, but it those who pushed her too far afterward would be the ones to blame.

I read that she didn't get in any trouble from the hospital. Their privacy laws, as I understand it, aren't nearly as stringent as ours are. For that matter, it wasn't that long ago, even here, that HIPPA was adopted. Before that, it was pretty much the wild west on privacy.

[RadicalModerate]

Love how radio show was cancelled and the DJ's fired - yet, according to the DJ's, the recording of the 'prank' was approved by station management.

Can we spell "hypocrasy"?...uh..."hypocrisy"?...uh "hypocrazy"?
Just a thought (on account of I can't understand why this story was so pushed by the media nor any of the actual events involved):
Is it a good idea to have "a dedicated,skilled, nurse" with a "perfect record" who may have been so "thin-skinned" as to take all of this so seriously as to kill herself in a position of caring for patients?
Was this person a non-native resident of England whose culture and upbringing has rather limited methods of dealing with supposed "shame"?
What if someone had called the hospital and asked if they had Prince Albert in the can? (geez . . . this may be "noozgossip" but where is the learning here?)
Did any of these events actually occur? ("Wag the Dog")

Sorry . . . Far too many Netflix-based BBC Cop/Detective/Barrister/Solicitor shows to count . . .
I suppose that I will have to run all this by a buddy in the vicinity of Manchester with vaguely Irish sentimental connections to get closer to the truth of this blessed "event" . . .

[Jim Kyle]

Was this person a non-native resident of England whose culture and upbringing has rather limited methods of dealing with supposed "shame"?

That's quite possible. She was a native of India; I don't know how that culture handles personal shame.

The BBC this morning reports that the Aussie station has pledged their entire profits from the remainder of the year, not less than half a million Aussie dollars, to a memorial fund to help the nurse's family. (I get my news from the BBC rather than from the Faux Network.)

[RadicalModerate]

I think that . . . oh . . . i dunno . . . Oprah(?) needs to be given a powdered wig, a robe and a ticket to London. She could sit up at the big bench and declare something somber, in the direction of TheAussieMiscreants at the bar, along the lines of: "You have been found guilty and not guilty of the crime of not respecting diversity by and of your peers. You are hereby sentenced to be Transported back to Australia. After you mop up the result of the peers."

If Oprah can't work this into her schedule, then maybe Judge Judy could be called out of retirement. If she has other obligations, then perhaps Rachael Ray or Ellen Degeneris?

This just in from a BBC Listener Affiliate much closer to the mysterious actual events in question:
Re. the nurse who topped herself, I think there's a conspiracy there. The hospital have taken great pain's to say she wasn't officially disciplined,,,, but they don't say the English nurses didn't give her hell. Nurses in the uk are bitches and they would have made her life hell. I feel sorry for her, but also for the perps... the radio people couldn't have expected that she'd top herself. What they should have thought about was that there would be potentially disciplinary procedures. I love prank calls, but they shouldn't lose people their jobs and potentially lives.

And, as Walter Cronkite used to say: "That's the way it appears to be . . . Or not."