From The Kitchen Table

Category: Miss Nightingale I presume

  • Today’s Google celebration

    At the weekend I returned to my alma mater, St Thomas’ Hospital in London to re-unite with other survivors of my set who began training together at the Nightingale School. This is the weekend that is always set aside for such a meeting of the Fellowship because it is the nearest to the birthday, today,…

  • Here’s a story

    Picture: Student nurses with ward sister, St Thomas’ Hospital circa 1965 Here is quite a long story about the first journalist I ever met. It took place a long time ago in the middle of the night at St Thomas’s Hospital. I was, for the first time, the senior night nurse on duty which both…

  • Job done (not)

    Reading in the Observer last Sunday of the apparent poor treatment, verging on neglect, of the soldiers being treated at Selly Oak hospital was truly dispiriting. For blessed baby boomers like me it seems incredible that anyone in hospital should suffer the way that was reported in the newspaper – young men lying in soiled…