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July 25 -- "Surgeon halts operation over foreign nurses' poor English".
Britain: "A surgeon at a leading hospital has said he had to stop halfway through an operation because foreign nurses could not follow his instructions. As a result, he said he has been threatened with disciplinary action for racism. David Nunn, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, in London, told The Telegraph that he was unable to complete the operation last week without certain instruments. When he asked the nurses, all of whom were foreign, to find them, 'I was met with a selection of bemused reactions,' he said. 'They were produced only when the scrub nurse de-scrubbed and went to find them herself.' Mr Dunn, 48, said his superiors had accused him of racism and threatened him with being disciplined." Dunn said the influx of nurses from outside Britain are "without doubt well-trained and dedicated professionals, but if medical staff cannot communicate effectively then patients' care may be put at risk." Careful what you say, doc... (Richard Eden, Daily Telegraph, Jul. 22).
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/22/nurs22.xml
Britain: "A surgeon at a leading hospital has said he had to stop halfway through an operation because foreign nurses could not follow his instructions. As a result, he said he has been threatened with disciplinary action for racism. David Nunn, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, in London, told The Telegraph that he was unable to complete the operation last week without certain instruments. When he asked the nurses, all of whom were foreign, to find them, 'I was met with a selection of bemused reactions,' he said. 'They were produced only when the scrub nurse de-scrubbed and went to find them herself.' Mr Dunn, 48, said his superiors had accused him of racism and threatened him with being disciplined." Dunn said the influx of nurses from outside Britain are "without doubt well-trained and dedicated professionals, but if medical staff cannot communicate effectively then patients' care may be put at risk." Careful what you say, doc... (Richard Eden, Daily Telegraph, Jul. 22).
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/22/nurs22.xml
