They never made anyone lose their job any more than the Queen lost hers for talking to a radio DJ live on air for 15 minutes discussing how to influence a forthcoming referendum.Originally Posted by Hazir
They never made anyone lose their job any more than the Queen lost hers for talking to a radio DJ live on air for 15 minutes discussing how to influence a forthcoming referendum.
They gave our private medical information to a third party. That's grounds for a lawsuit.
Hope is the denial of reality
Indeed, though good luck in another nation.
Not grounds for dismissing a nurse who made a non-fatal mistake at 5:30am.
Considering how much money they would have lost if such a lawsuit was made, it's a pretty good grounds actually.
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Not sure if a British Employment Tribunal would see it that way.
I'm pretty sure when I used them my lawyers would have advised me to consider if anything at most a written warning, not dismissal. I highly doubt dismissal would in this instance even be legal given that I doubt a mistake in these circumstances unlikely to be repeated would be classed as Gross Misconduct. Remember in the UK we don't have "at will" employment and unless someone has committed Gross Misconduct then dismissal is not permitted for the first instance of misconduct (unless she was in probation, highly unlikely). Not a legal issue but the negative PR had they fired her would also have been not worth it.
Actually, if you are in the medical profession, breach of patient confidentiality is taken as a very serious type of misconduct. It could cost the responsable physician his license to practise. The nurse should have refused to disperse any information on the Phone. What the nurse did may seem like a simple mistake to you, but has the weight of stealing from your employer in other branches.
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Ditto. This is like a paralegal telling a third party information about a firm's clients. Short of intentional malpractice, this is the worst thing that a law firm could do.
Hope is the denial of reality
Paralegals probably don't often get worried loved ones legitimately calling to make sure their sick relative is ok.
If you work in a medical environment you can say something commonplace like 'she's well taken care of' and leave it there, because even if it's the Queen herself calling, she's not allowed to know if the duchess has puked her guts out or that she finally could keep some food down, untill the duchess decides that she may be intimate to that information.
Nurses should reply in most cases that people ask them questions 'Sorry, I can't tell you that (on the Phone)'.
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"loved ones" isn't enough to give out someone's condition. Overhere we have passwords. No password? No information.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/10/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1
the show has been shitcanned and the DJs are off the air.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Before the suicide
After"The only bad thing about our Royal Prank… is knowing that I will NEVER EVER top this,'' he posted on Facebook. "Less than a week in the job & I've already peaked."
"There is nothing that can make me feel worse than what I feel right now," Greig said on "Today Tonight."
Considering he is pretty much out of a job, his facebook post wasn't completely wrong...
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Isn't there a bit of an overreaction going on right now? I mean, those DJ's were engaging in an obnoxious type of prank, but it's not like they willingly murdered a nurse. The worst they should have factored in (normally) would be her being fired, and as far as I know not everybody who gets fired kills himself.
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The DJs losing their jobs seems like a proper punishment to me...
Hope is the denial of reality
I would say the people who gave the green light to publish it are just as responsable.
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