But this thread is about a hospital hiding a sick serviceman Nick??

Supported Palace for over 69 years since the age of 7 and have seen all the ups and downs and will probably see many more ups and downs before I go up to the big football club in the sky.

Read Tom the eagles post at 9.54

I know. But Tom the eagles was. That was my point, it's nothing to do with the hospital but he saw it as an opportunity for a bit of Muslim bashing.

Wrong.

When the first incident happened, the aggressor should have been reprimanded, and detained until the police arrived to arrest him. If found guilty he should be deported.

Notices should have been put up in the hospital to warn others that this disgusting behaviour will not be tolerated.

When this latest RAF sergeant arrived he should have been seen immediately and treated like a hero.

Instead he is treated like a second class citizen by idiots that don't deserve to be working in our hospitals if they believed what they did was acceptable.

The NHS need to brief their staff to be proud of our servicemen and women and treat them with respect.

Actually, not wrong. Because none of those things did happen. So by all means blame the NHS administrators for failing to handle the first incident efficiently but my point still stands: an individual NHS employee used their initiative and made a judgment call to head off an anticipated problem. So even if the wrong judgment call was made, no real harm was done and isn't that the sort of independent-thinking, proactive behaviour all you right wingers are screaming is needed in the NHS?

No wrong was done in this incident by the staff involved. There is an argument, however, that in the light of previous experience, a policy should have been implemented that they could follow. Being proud of one's servicemen and trying to avoid trouble in E/R are not mutually exclusive. I'm quite sure the employee took the action they did in what they thought were the interests of everyone's safety. It may have been a bad decision, but that doesn't make it a disrespectful one. Furthermore, the solider was not treated like a second class citizen. I don't know how many ERs you've been in, but being taken out of the waiting room and into the ward is significant plus in comfort terms in my experience.

Lastly, we don't know that notices weren't posted and the presence of notices hardly makes it less likely that trouble will break out amongst those who have a desire to cause it. Should they have put a big sign on the World Trade Center saying "Terrorist Attacks Forbidden"? Someone used their judgment in what they thought was the appropriate way. Get over it.

Edited by sydtheeagle (26 Sep 2015 1.21pm)

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

People can 'rather suspect' what they like and it may have been a muslim, but it could've been someone of a different culture or otherwise who was generally anti war, iraq war or whatever. We can all agree that it's monumentally stupid to confront someone sick in a hospital bed and to let that dictate what happened to the Sgt, but it's hardly sensible to let it influence your feelings about muslims or 'asylum seekers' based on this incident. An incident where we don't even yet know a thing about what happened previously.

You fail to see that glossing over a completely random 'muslim rapist' story, before then yourself saying that you suspect a muslim was involved and it has 'stiffened your resolve' contributes to this cycle. Let's stop using victims of mistreatment to score points because we see how well that works out. Sadly some of you are much too close in behaviour to the very people you appear to dislike or despise.

Edited by oldcodger (26 Sep 2015 3.34pm)