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Trying to get fired? Here's another brilliant idea brought to you by the good doctors and nurses at Great Western Hospital in the U.K. According to the Metro.co.uk, seven doctors and nurses were suspended after bosses caught them posting photographs of themselves on the Internet lying down on resuscitation tables, ward floors and a heli-pad.
The group, from the hospital's A & E department and Acute Assessment Unit, had been working a night shift and posted photographs of the stunt on Facebook.
Hospital bosses were alerted to the prank by a whistle blower and the medics may now face the sack after being suspended on full pay.
Why would doctors and nurses do such a thing, you ask?
Simple, it's an internet craze. They were playing 'The Lying Down Game.'
Created by Gary Clarkson and Christian Langdon, contestants playing 'The Lying Down Game' must lie face down with the palms of their hands against their sides and the tips of their toes pointing at the ground.
The international craze swept the internet earlier this year with 'players' competing to take photographs of one another in unusual locations.
Back at the hospital, a source who refused to be named, described the suspensions as a "nightmare" for those involved.
The source said: "It's a right mess. It's been a nightmare week for them. The person who started it is really worried. It reflects badly on the department.
"It's all very hushed up at the hospital and some may lose their jobs. It's a worldwide game so I heard.
"It was just some nurses and doctors on nights having fun, but photos got onto Facebook and management found out.
"Someone in the department leaked the group, but no-one knows who. Health and safety and infection control issues have all been broken.
Seven of the group, which included doctors and nurses, have been suspended on full pay and will now face formal disciplinary hearings.
The 'Secret Swindon Emergency Department Group', where the images were on show, has been removed by Facebook.
A spokesman for GWH refused to rule out sackings and said: "The disciplinary hearings are yet to take place and we cannot predict the outcome." Dr Alf Troughton, medical director for Great Western Hospital NHS Trust, confirmed the suspensions but denied that patient care was affected.
"The allegations have been thoroughly investigated and seven members of staff remain suspended pending formal disciplinary hearings."
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Sep 11th 2009 @ 5:29AM kari
I think there is nothing wrong with having a little 'fun' on the job. After all, these people work long, long, hours. BUT that does not make me question their instinct to save lives and be passionate about it. After all, they did not spend forever in school, to goof off. The peoole that get through medical school are a special breed, very very dedicated. I couldn't do it!
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Sep 10th 2009 @ 2:27PM xariabnm
No one was hurt and they did not damage or destroy hospital property. Why is this news?
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Sep 10th 2009 @ 3:07PM duh!
Infection control policies were broken. These policies keep staff from passing germs from themselves to patients and patients to patients. Hospitals are breeding grounds for germs! If they touched or came in contact with sterilized or otherwise sanitized equipment, they "contaminated" it and thus put others at risk.
Sep 10th 2009 @ 10:14PM mommieofone
If a Dr. or nurse happens to be "playing" a game on a table used to maybe save the life of my loved one, I would be pissed. True peopel need to "lighten up" but that is what after hours is for. In a hospital one should act professonal at all times and to put in online, well thats a true moron.
Sep 10th 2009 @ 4:56PM Ian
Post #6, above (Duh) said, "Infection control policies were broken. These policies keep staff from passing germs from themselves to patients and patients to patients. Hospitals are breeding grounds for germs! If they touched or came in contact with sterilized or otherwise sanitized equipment, they "contaminated" it and thus put others at risk." Clearly this remark was not made by a real doctor or a real nurse, but, perhaps, by some clerical nurse who manages things but has little to do with any practical application of medicine with real patients. To say hospitals are breeding grounds for germs is a silly thing to say; such an alarmist remark would make it seem inadvisable to go to the hospital when you're sick or injured -- better some place that's not a breeding ground for germs, such as a school playground, or a library. I work at a hospital, and doctors, nurses, janitors, secretaries, patients, and patients' families routinely contaminate such items as these doctors and nurses used for their Facebook photos, just by running their grubby hands against them, leaning against them, and setting objects down upon them. Believe me, there are FAR greater infection control issues that hospitals should worry about, than these pathetic "example" of infection control violations, which routinely are ignored by most hospitals.
Sep 10th 2009 @ 2:34PM jim forrester
sounds like the docs and nurses were just relieving a little stress to me. the world is getting all to serious. let's laugh and lighten up everybody !
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Sep 10th 2009 @ 6:16PM jackie
I agree, if noone got hurt and it was relieving stress or just a few minutes of fun, what is the harm? Sounds like another nit picker squealing cause they couldnt play. I am in the same kind of job, and I would love to be able to get some kind of stress reliever like that but I am not in a Hospital setting. So leave them alone, it is all in fun. Try walking in their shoes for a few days see what you would do!!
Sep 10th 2009 @ 11:59PM laiconna
The hospital is serious business. There are many places they can go to releive stress. It's a good thing they put it on facebook or no one would have known about it.
Don't you work? Do you think your boss would like to know that you were playing around when you were supposed to be working?
Sep 10th 2009 @ 2:45PM jenny
How is this news in any way??
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Sep 10th 2009 @ 3:33PM Ernest Leslie
I agree that in all probability, the staff were just relieving some excess stress and why is it NEWS anyway. Life cannot be serious all the time! Ease Up on NEWS that is not worth writing about.
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