Nurse Pranked by Austrailian Radio DJs reportedly commits suicide.

[AzrealMaximillion]

Now I'm not one to care much about news surrounding the Royal Family of the UK, but this story caught my attention.

Earlier this week some Australian radio DJs prank called the hospital that Kate Middleton was staying at after coming down with acute morning sickness. A nurse, now known to be named Jacintha Saldanha, answered the phone and thought she was speaking with The Queen of England and Prince Charles. She then went on to give intimate details of Kate Middleton's condition without a second thought.

The nurse was found dead this morning at around 9:30 EST. Police suspect no foul play but have not confirmed that cause of death was suicide.
Link:[link]http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/07/jacintha-saldanha-who-committed-suicide-after-kate-middleton-radio-hoax-was-an-excellent-nurse/[/link]

Now the radio DJ are of course getting blamed by mobs on their Twitter for causing the nurses death.

Here's the prank call as reported by The Young Turks(before the suicide was announced):

I've a few questions before I throw my opinion in.

Should the DJs be facing any scrutiny? Or is mob mentality coming out again?

Do you think that the nurse committed suicide, if so why?

Do you think that the hospital should have done a better job in verifying the call?

 

[Dangit2019]

What kind of person thinks that revealing explicit medical details is funny? Isn't that illegal? If anything, the DJ's should face trial in the court of comedy.

Tragic about the nurse, though.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

I'm surprised that the nurse fell for the prank to be honest. The Australian DJs had pretty bad accents. I'm also surprised that no one at the hospital didn't confirm anything about the call.

 

[White_Lama]

Tragic story but I still don't understand why anyone would commit suicide over such a silly thing.

 

[Wolf In A Bear Suit]

Apparently this nurse didn't divulge information, she passed it onto the nurse who did. I don't really know what to think at the moment, she may have been a victim of huge miscommunication

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

What kind of person thinks that revealing explicit medical details is funny? Isn't that illegal? If anything, the DJ's should face trial in the court of comedy.

Tragic about the nurse, though.

Technically, it's illegal on the nurse's part. By revealing those details to a random caller she breached the Data Protection Act of 1998, and the fact that it was medical details (i.e. "highly sensitive") meant she probably would have at least lost her job.

Making a fool out of someone (which is all the DJs did), on the other hand, is not illegal.

 

[Lionsfan]

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Already posted man: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.395593-Hospital-Nurse-found-dead-after-prank-call-on-the-Duchess-Catherine

 

[Best of the 3]

What kind of person thinks that revealing explicit medical details is funny? Isn't that illegal? If anything, the DJ's should face trial in the court of comedy.

Tragic about the nurse, though.

Not really anything to add, you pretty much said it, but I got to say I love your RLM avatar.

As for what's happened, it's sad really. No, the nurse shouldn't have given out this info, then again, the people on the radio shouldn't have played this live (I guess they did) and they should have told her this was a joke, confirmed she was ok and bleeped out sensitive information. Something that could have been funny, possibly, handled very badly.

 

[anthony87]

Tragic story but I still don't understand why anyone would commit suicide over such a silly thing.

Because British and their holy fascination with the royal family I'd imagine. Granted I'm assuming like a ************ here but I can't help but imagine that the nurse was all ashamed about the whole thing, between the media coverage and the fact that it was a member of the royal family she took her own life.

 

[Evil Smurf]

of course it was 2dayfm/the fox who did this, they are all hacks who play bad pop music.

 

[Aaron Sylvester]

I have a question, I have read like 10 news articles about this and I still can't figure out that HOW HAVE PEOPLE ASSUMED THE THE SUICIDE WAS LINKED TO THE PRANK CALL??

 

[capper42]

Tragic story but I still don't understand why anyone would commit suicide over such a silly thing.

Because British and their holy fascination with the royal family I'd imagine. Granted I'm assuming like a ************ here but I can't help but imagine that the nurse was all ashamed about the whole thing, between the media coverage and the fact that it was a member of the royal family she took her own life.

Is there a British obsession with the royal family? As an Englishman I haven't really noticed this. The past couple of years have sort of rekindled people's interest in them because of the royal wedding and the jubilee, but really there's plenty of people who couldn't give a shit what they do. Middleton being pregnant is big news in the same way Beyonce being pregnant was big news, just more celebrity gossip.

You make it sound like it was out of respect for the Royals the nurse killed herself, but it's likely a combination of potential huge legal repercussions and other already-present psychological problems.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

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Already posted man: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.395593-Hospital-Nurse-found-dead-after-prank-call-on-the-Duchess-Catherine

Thanks for letting me know.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

I have a question, I have read like 10 news articles about this and I still can't figure out that HOW HAVE PEOPLE ASSUMED THE THE SUICIDE WAS LINKED TO THE PRANK CALL??

Happened literally the day after. Also the fact that the nurse may have been majorly disciplined by the hospital considering the Royal Family was involved.

The prank may not be the direct cause, but the aftermath of it may have been the straw that broke the camel's back so to say.

 

[Korolev]

Not really the DJ's fault.

Okay, the nurse killed herself because of the prank call - but who could have know that she would do that? Hands up, everyone, if you GENUINELY predicted that suicide was a likely outcome of this prank call. No hands raised? How many people do you know who have killed themselves after a prank call? This is the first time I have ever heard about it. The DJ's couldn't have know that this would have happened. Many prank calls have been made in the past, and suicides are not a common reaction to them.

Also, if she killed herself because the Royal Family and their staff and the hospital threatened her and put enormous psychological pressure on her as a result of falling for the prank.... isn't that the fault of the Royal Family and the Hospital? She was probably extremely stressed due to the reaction of the Royals and their staff - they probably threatened to fire her, destroy her career, etc. If they did that, then it's not the fault of the DJs. It's the fault of the Royals.

And if the Royal family didn't put enormous pressure on her, then she killed herself because she had a very brittle personality, and while that is very tragic, it's not as if the DJs could have known about it.

So either it's the fault of the Royals for putting enormous pressure on her and threatening her, or it's just a terrible unforseeable tragedy where a particular prank had an enormous and statistically unlikely effect on someone with pre-existing mental troubles. Either way, the DJs are not to blame.

 

[lacktheknack]

I have a question, I have read like 10 news articles about this and I still can't figure out that HOW HAVE PEOPLE ASSUMED THE THE SUICIDE WAS LINKED TO THE PRANK CALL??

It IS linked, by timing. Much like how a suspect buying a knife a day before a victim is knifed is automatically a "link".

OT: Dreadful. I have no love for the DJs right now, and I think they should be at least fined (if only because I'm pretty sure what they did was wildly illegal).

 

[Batou667]

Two possibilities:

1) The nurse got a sever bollocking by her employers, assumed her career was as good as over, and committed suicide.

2) The Royals got their Freemason assassin squads on the case.