He can't be a mental health nurse because he's in jail

Well, well, another psychiatric nurse who stole money from a patient.

Only last month, Elizabeth Fayers was caught going down the local casino for a few spins of the reels with a patient's cash.

Now Adrian Mauger, who's been languishing in prison for the past few months for stealing £7,000 from a patient, has been dumped out of the nursing profession after it was deemed his actions "impaired his fitness to practice."

The politically correct language makes me cringe. Instead of saying "impaired his fitness to practice", it should say, "Mr Mauger has been convicted of a criminal offence and can't be a nurse any more because he's banged up in jail."

It takes two to tango

A psychiatrist who was secretly having an affair with a female doctor, got his comeuppance when the lady doctor called time on him when she found out the shrink's wife was pregnant.

The Daily Record reported on the psychiatrist Dr Jonathan Steele who sent text messages to the lady doctor after she dumped him. The lady doctor then reported the shrink when the messages got out of hand.

That's when Dr Steele had to come clean and tell his wife what he'd been up to. Now he's out of work. Would the lady doctor have dumped him if his wife had not fallen pregnant? Was the lady doctor on a guilt trip, or did she think her bit on the side had too much baggage?

After all the publicity on Dr Steele, I'm interested to know what happened to the lady doctor. Promiscuous and an adulteress. Not really the sort of clean-living, honest, trustworthy type suitable for filling the role of a doctor. What do you think?

'Ere mate, what's it worth to take these 'ere drugs?

Paying patients to take drugs. This is the latest psychiatric methodology to gain more compliance from those who've been prescribed antipsychotic drugs. What about those who are compliant? Do they get the cash too? If they don't, they could always become 'difficult' and get a bit more taxpayers cash.

This is coercion, isn't it? Bribing a person to consume expensive drugs. What if the bribes don't work? What then? I've compiled a list of possibilities that might encourage compliance:

1) Meals out at top restaurants
2) Visits to lap dance parlours
3) Weekends away at top hotels
4) All expenses paid flights abroad

Would you look at that. That's a list of what the shrinks get from Big Pharma. I know, perhaps the 'patients' could join the shrinks on their freebie excursions, sort of like one big happy family, and then the shrinks could definitely check whether they're complying!

There now, working together.