Suspension of nurse who gave drug on consultant's instructions
- 5 April 1997
- Vol. 314 (7086) , 1043
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.314.7086.1043a
Abstract
# Consultant is grateful for readers' support {#article-title-2} Editor—I wish to thank the many readers who have supported my action and that of the sister in a day hospital in giving a psychotic patient surreptitious drug treatment.1 Needless to say, this was very much a last resort. I did not give the patient his drugged tea myself because he would not have accepted it from me; the nurse concerned naturally hesitated when I asked her to give it, and I foolishly assured her that I would take full responsibility. Since then I have done everything in my power to persuade the hospital administration to put matters right–without success. I hoped that publicity might facilitate this. The chairman of the trust, however, …Keywords
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