Re: Learning Disability
Posted by meka on 7/16/08

On 7/15/08, -- wrote:
> On 7/15/08, Curmudgeon wrote:
>> Okay--I'll stop arguing and concede. I'll agree that the OP does
>> not have a learning disability. She's just sloppy and stupid--
>> traits that you all undoubtedly want to find in the nurse that is
>> administering your medications.
>
> Only a qualified medical professional can make a diagnosis of a
> learning disability. A nurse is not qualified. Problem is someone
> (like you?) might actually take the nurse seriously. It's one thing
> for a supervising nurse to make a report that a trainee nurse is
> below professional standards, that's her job; but making a diagnosis
> is not her job. In most states it is prima facie slander to state
> that someone has a mental illness.
>
> For example; just because someone is a curmudgeon doesn't mean they
> are a bi-polar, manic depressive, schizophrenic. Big difference
> between a character trait and a mental illness.

Sticks and stones can break your bones and truly names can (and will)
harm you.

Posts on this thread, including this one

• Learning Disability, 7/15/08, by Patricia.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/15/08, by Curmudgeon.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/15/08, by ASLMEMBER @YAHOO.COM.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/15/08, by Meka.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/15/08, by Curmudgeon.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/15/08, by Susan.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/15/08, by Curmudgeon.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/15/08, by --.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/16/08, by meka.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/16/08, by Patricia.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/16/08, by Curmudgeon.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/16/08, by --.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/16/08, by Patricia.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/17/08, by meka.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/17/08, by Susan.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/17/08, by Curmudgeon.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/17/08, by Susan.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/17/08, by Patricia.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/18/08, by Meka.
• Re: Learning Disability, 7/20/08, by Patricia.