Buckingham Palace shares big news!

[badgeguy]

http://m.usmag.com/?redirurl=/celebr...advice-2012412

Snooki giving advice to Kate?!?!? Really????

The world IS ending soon!!!!!

BG

[PiKA2001]

So apparently Buckingham Palace didn't even know Kate was pregnant when she was being admitted to the hospital for morning sickness. I wonder how long they would have kept the pregnancy a secret had there been no complications?

[Psi U MC Vito]

I wouldn't be surprised if they had planned to hide it until she became obvious she was pregnant. Honestly I probably would have done the same thing. As far as I am concerned they are entitled to the same right to privacy as the average person. There is absolutely no political reason they needed to hurry because William isn't even the Prince of Wales.

[DubaiSis]

Standard protocol is 12 weeks, when the largest threat of miscarriage has passed. Besides, if you've ever dealt with someone who felt the need to share the fact that they were pregnant the moment they peed on a stick the morning after the comingling of baby making fluids, 9 months of it is a LONG time. If I were them, I'd have held out until lying about weight gain was ridiculous. But her being hospitalized without telling could have easily turned into some horrible rumors about abortion and all kinds of other nonsense, so they were really stuck. The British tabloid press is relentless and cruel.

[thewasher418]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

Standard protocol is 12 weeks, when the largest threat of miscarriage has passed. Besides, if you've ever dealt with someone who felt the need to share the fact that they were pregnant the moment they peed on a stick the morning after the comingling of baby making fluids, 9 months of it is a LONG time. If I were them, I'd have held out until lying about weight gain was ridiculous. But her being hospitalized without telling could have easily turned into some horrible rumors about abortion and all kinds of other nonsense, so they were really stuck. The British tabloid press is relentless and cruel.

As an obstetrician, ridiculously early pregnancy announcements are a pet peeve of mine. Most of the people I work with wait to announce until after everything checks out okay at their 20-week ultrasound. I get that this is a unique situation, however.

[SWTXBelle]

I get 20 points!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I get 20 points!

[DDDlady]

Does Britian have a HIPPA like privacy law? This nurse better hope not.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/p...-call/1747619/

[chi-o_cat]

Originally Posted by DDDlady

Does Britian have a HIPPA like privacy law? This nurse better hope not.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/p...-call/1747619/

This story has now taken a surprising and sad turn:

http://gma.yahoo.com/nurse-hoaxed-qu...opstories.html

[MysticCat]

Yikes! Very sad.

This really gets me:

The radio station has since apologized for the prank call.

"2Day FM sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the inquiry to Kate's hospital. The radio segment was done with lighthearted intentions," the station said in a statement.

"We were very surprised that our call was put through. We thought we'd be hung up on as soon as they heard our terrible accents," the radio hosts said in the statement. "We're very sorry if we've caused any issues, and we're glad to hear that Kate is doing well. We wish Kate and her family all the best."

Really? They apologize for "any inconveniences" and are sorry if they caused "any issues"? How about actually taking real responsibility and apologizing for your actions and your lack of judgment?

[Kevin]

I dunno, I think it is definitely foreseeable that duping a hospital nurse into releasing information about a royal patient could cause severe emotional distress and that could lead to suicide.

I'll bet there's some wonderful Queen's Bench law covering the matter, but my Westlaw account doesn't have that in my plan.

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I dunno, I think it is definitely foreseeable that duping a hospital nurse into releasing information about a royal patient could cause severe emotional distress and that could lead to suicide.

Except that the nurse who committed suicide wasn't the same nurse who released information.
*(ETA that I'm not trying to justify the deejays' actions. Just that the nurse who seems to be facing the bigger issues here is the one who released the info, not the one who transferred the call.)
**[EATA that it likely doesn't matter which deceived nurse committed suicide. If it's foreseeable that the one who released information would commit suicide, then it's also foreseeable that the one who transferred the call would commit suicide. See what I mean about having mixed feelings? I shouldn't have posted in this thread until I figured out where I stood on the issue.]

When I first heard of the nurse's death, before it was identified as suicide, I wondered if the nurse who released information got mad at the nurse who transferred the call and subsequently killed her.

It's a shame though, all the way around. The nurse who released info made poor decisions, the deejays made poor decisions, the nurse who committed suicide made poor decisions... such negativity surrounding what should be a celebratory event (that an heir is on the way, not Kate's hospitalization).

[CutiePie2000]

I thought this was a very good editorial on Ethics, from The Toronto Star:

"Blaming DJs for nurse’s death simplistic and vindictive"

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

I thought this was a very good editorial on Ethics, from The Toronto Star:

"Blaming DJs for nurse’s death simplistic and vindictive"

And I'm in agreement with that guy.

[MysticCat]

Tick, tock, tick, tock . . . .