Actually , 3rd hand, maybe fourth. I don’t know. Of course I know enough to know better than repeat that which I don’t know as true, especially when I have absolutely no proof.

Nonetheless, I did hear it on the radio and it was implied to be true. That is at least as good as stories I’ve heard from dems as absolute fact.

Besides, it could be true. It very easily might be representative of who knows how many untold true stories inside and outside medicine.

The man said his wife had 2 high blood pressure pregnancies. Oddly, her 3rd pregnancy, her pressure was normal at the doctor’s office and high at home.

The husband brought this to the attention of the doctor at the next office visit. The doctor looked at the chart and saw that the nurse again noted the pressure as normal. The doctor measured her pressure and saw it was high.

The doctor called the nurse in and told her to check the pressure again, afterwhich, she announced it was normal. It seemed she never learned how to take a pressure manually. The doctor immediately dismissed the nurse. Then after the appointment the doctor started checking on the many others the nurse saw.

Is the story true? I don’t know. Howsomever, do you want a nurse checking your blood pressure when she knows not how? For that matter, any test?

Do we want nurses hired by their skill or their color? Just where do we want the priority.

A plane stood ready to take off and lost a wheel. That actually happened. It shouldn’t make me wonder but it does. Was the mechanic that last worked on it hired because of his ability? Or was it something else? Maybe he was the cousin of a brother-in-law.

I have no right to judge. I did work on F4s and I can’t claim a perfect record. I can tell you first hand it is easy to make serious mistakes. It is all the more reason to chose excellency over fairness.