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- Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.
- Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.
- I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic,…
- I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell…
- I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the…
- Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might…
- My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all.…
- One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly…
- The reason I used a name was because I was a nurse at the time, and I didn't want my name in Timeout and people…
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