(December 8, 2012 at 10:51 pm)festive1 Wrote: I don't know what the laws are in Britain, but here in the US the nurse who put through that phone call would, at the very least, be fired, and possibly subject of various lawsuits for breaching patient confidentiality laws. If your job is all you got... Well, that's why some people kill themselves.
Does that make it the pranksters fault? Yes, it makes it less funny now that something horrible has come of it, but the intent was not what occurred and could not have reasonably been foreseen. I find it very unfair the way they are being treated for doing a job that thousands of people do all the time without this sort of recourse. The poor woman killed herself. I think we can all agree that it was disproportionate to the circumstances. Furthermore, no one has reported that she was in any trouble. All I have heard is that it was reported, so she was likely embarrassed. Annik is also right. She didn't give away any information. The only thing she did was patch the call.
