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Post by galaxygoddess on Feb 5, 2007 13:41:56 GMT -5
This has nothing to do with the AttackMachine or anything anyone has said but it something I would like more opinion on.
What is worse?
A trusted family member lying about their knowledge and stealing from someone helpless,
or
The ignorance of the situation causing the death of someone who is basically helpless to defend themselves?
I just want other opinions on this. I'm angry, but I can't decide which part makes me madder.
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Post by rugermk1 on Feb 5, 2007 13:55:11 GMT -5
'A trusted family member lying about their knowledge and stealing from someone helpless'
This infuriates me the most. Like people who write stolen checkes they obtained from widows/other retirees. Then the people who had their identities stolen spend their last few years struggling very hard to get back into financial solvency.
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Post by phinehas on Feb 5, 2007 14:21:17 GMT -5
Would not knowingly doing something bear a greater condemnation over ignorance?
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Post by killer on Feb 5, 2007 14:23:35 GMT -5
Kind of confused. But I think lying is worse than being ignorant.
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Post by galaxygoddess on Feb 5, 2007 15:34:39 GMT -5
A woman, with no medical background, who works in a building that never even sees the patients, just handles the medical records of a doctor's office or some such thing, lied and said that she was a nurse with formal training.
She took over the care of an elderly woman with Alzheimer's. A woman who could not completely take care of herself. Not deep Alzheimer's but enough that she is not safe to leave by herself.
For years this woman tells the rest of the family that she knows what she is doing, and can take perfect care of the Alzheimer woman. She goes against doctor's orders and does not give the elderly woman her medications nor takes the elderly woman to her doctor's visits. This same woman takes the funds from the elderly woman's bank accounts and takes trips to god knows where at random intervals often leaving the elderly woman by herself for months at a time.
On one of the recent disappearances the elderly woman locks herself in a bathroom and calls her son and says she needs to go to the hospital. Concerned but unable to locate the "nurse" the son takes the elderly woman to the doctor.
The doctor informs the son that he has not seen the elderly woman in a very long time, that the "nurse" canceled all of the doctor's appointments and told him that the elderly woman had switched doctors. The elderly woman believes that she has never seen any other doctor. The doctor tells the son the elderly woman has advanced ovarian cancer and is dying.
Last night, the elderly woman passed, and the "nurse" is un-locatable.
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