How much should we blame God for NHS shortcomings?
I was watching Talking Pictures TV on Sunday (8th May); around 4.45pm they showed a short film, made, I think, in 1960, about schools for the deaf. It was an interesting film, made in a bygone era, but one which might still have some relevance today. *** My stepmother, Margaret, was a working State Registered Nurse when that film was made. She had done her training soon after leaving school in the late forties, and, after a year or two as a nursery nurse at an industrial laundry, she worked in hospitals in central London until the late seventies, when she moved to an occupational health role, before retiring at the end of 1991. Margaret had grown up when things were very different to now; all respectable people attended church. She was an active Sunday School attendee, and continued - on the face of it - to uphold ‘Christian’ values, but did, when the mask slipped, have some attitudes that, at least today, would be considered cruel, or unacceptable. One such was towar...