tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post5926180190529479918..comments2024-03-27T13:13:25.164-04:00Comments on johnshaplin: The Wind of Death by David Killingrayjohnshaplinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-2129043335016226352009-04-27T20:48:00.000-04:002009-04-27T20:48:00.000-04:00Proper nursing can be a problem even in the most m...Proper nursing can be a problem even in the most modern and well-equiped hospitals, as recent studies have shown, especially in intensive care units and homes for the elderly, among private for-profit providers in particular.<br /><br /> Reports suggest a break-down in commitment and professionalism in at least one of the hospitals treating the first victims of the flu in Mexico City. An atmosphere of incomprehension and fear developed, with some providers walking off the job. Administrative responses were, in some cases, threatening and coercive.<br /><br />In many areas of the world in 1918 nursing science was in its infancy and this must certainly have been the case in Africa. <br /><br />There can be no real doubt that the situation faced by health care providers in the teeming refugee camps and slums of the developing world, the impoverished neighborhods of places like Baghdad and the Gaza strip conditions are very similiar and equally as intractible as those faced by the early pioneers of modern nursing like Florence Nightengale.johnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.com