Sarah Dale, British Nurse, Fired After Bedding Cancer Patients' Husbands

Sarah Dale, a 39-year-old nurse who specialized in dealing with cancer patients, has admitted to having relationships with two husbands of her patients, with allegations of a third.

Dale has now lost her job at Queen Elizabeth National Health Service Hospital in Kings Lynn, England. She has also been "debadged" by the Macmillan cancer support charity.

She is now living with Stephen Ellis, 50, whose partner died of cancer last year.

Dale told The Sun, "The hospital was told I'd had three relationships with men who had lost their partners to cancer. But I have had two.

"One of them was long-term and we were together for nearly ten years. And the other is the one I am in now, who I love."

NHS officials were tipped off by a series of anonymous letters, which led to Dale taking sick leave before being fired by the hospital in January.

Ms Dale is still allowed to work as a nurse, but may be barred from working by the Nursing and Midwifery Council if found guilty of bringing her profession into disrepute.

A source at the hospital said, "It is embarrassing but not representative at all of the integrity most nurses act with."

Comments

[OBAMAMOI]

07:23 AM on 03/13/2010

She's no worse or better than a "sex worker"

As a Nurse you have to draw a line ( In your pants) somewhere thats the reason for our Moral Code


3 times seem like a pattern which equates to ....mental instability

Im sure the men she picked out are probably well off...

[Bloggerrogr]

04:30 PM on 03/12/2010

Hmmmm

plot line for "Scrubs" episode here?

(boy, I am going to get h8 mail by the tons for that!)

FWIW

[nocoward]

01:26 PM on 03/12/2010

She is a nurse and it is her job to take care of the bereaved.

[infidel2]

06:11 AM on 03/12/2010

Why is anyone surprised? This type of behavior has has always gone on.

[yellowdoggie]

03:51 AM on 03/12/2010

Sarah Dale was quoted as saying, "Badges? I ain't got no badges. I don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges."

[KIVPossum]

01:51 AM on 03/12/2010

It implies she didn't have affairs with them until after their spouses died. If so, what's the problem?

[HekmagaJuximakLives]

10:28 AM on 03/12/2010

One may just be fate. Two or more implies a pattern, similar toPedophiles.

[RTIII]

02:41 PM on 03/12/2010

You apparently missed the question. The question was; If she didn't have "affairs" until after their spouses had died, what's the problem?

What indeed.

This would merely be meeting people while working - where most people find their mates - and nothing untoward would have occurred at all.
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[KIVPossum]

01:32 AM on 03/13/2010

Sleeping with two people is a 'pattern'?

[DeSwiss]

05:30 PM on 03/11/2010

Great Britain, "The Nanny State"

[ChelseaC]

02:15 AM on 03/12/2010

Great Britian "The Nanny State?"
Please grow up.

[HekmagaJuximakLives]

10:28 AM on 03/12/2010

I heard it's the Neener State.

[JessWonderin]

05:21 PM on 03/11/2010

" . . . may be barred from working by the Nursing and Midwifery Council if found guilty of bringing her profession into disrepute. . . ."

Funny - they HOLD NURSES to a higher standard than WE do those that MAKE our laws and LEAD our churches . . . sad world indeed.

[stargazer13]

08:38 PM on 03/11/2010

your right of course although it is sad that you are !!

Midwifery is what caught my eye !! in our country they out law or restrict midwives .

and there live births compared to hospitals is better there care is so much more then you get from a busy doc,s office !! at least with the midwives I know !!

have followed two women s careers in this field !
they are great women ! and have given much care to their communities !

both have collage and or R.N. under their belts !

[GeorgeBurnsWasRight]

05:20 PM on 03/11/2010

I'm waiting for the opponents of the health care bill to now claim that in England there's a long waiting list to get sexual favors from the nurse, proving that national health care is a failure.

[Talossa]

05:17 PM on 03/11/2010

Is this how Newt Gingrich met his wife?

[BillZBubb]

05:43 PM on 03/11/2010

Which one? Two, three, or four?

[skunky93]

04:37 PM on 03/11/2010

great. So i'll have to threaten the nurse and let her know I'm watching her in the future.

[yellowdoggie]

04:01 AM on 03/12/2010

Threatening a nurse? Not wise. Like insulting your waiter, I would suspect.

[skunky93]

09:20 AM on 03/12/2010

Eh, u don't really think I was serious right? U know I was joking around? *crickets*

[Sergeant]

03:57 PM on 03/11/2010

Another perk of govenment run health care programs.

[bradyd]

05:14 PM on 03/11/2010

And you are another "perk" of allowing unintelligent people to say whatever they want

[Sergeant]

05:15 PM on 03/11/2010

Thanks, I think.

[ArtsyJane]

03:54 PM on 03/11/2010

Wow, thtat sounds like a bad novel by a first time writer.

[Caleb Owens]

03:52 PM on 03/11/2010

Doesn't sound like she did anything unethical or wrong. Try caring for people day in and day out and watch them suffering from a loved one dying; it's only natural to want to comfort people that you have a connection with. Loving people is healthy, if the men's wifes were had already passed and they needed comfort and love, what's wrong with her providing it?

People are reading too much into this like she was running some sort of prostitution ring out of the hospital or something. It's stupid and judgmental; we don't know anything about her or the men, or their dead wives.

[SanTang]

05:50 PM on 03/11/2010

Ì completely agree with you. Nothing seems immoral in the whole thing. Unless having a love relation with someone is immoral.

[goddessNdiva]

06:07 PM on 03/11/2010

EXACTLY. These were relationships and not one night stands. Someone was obviously jealous of her but this woman is a hero in my book.

[SweetestTaboo]

03:20 PM on 03/11/2010

That's a very creative way to meet a man, hanging around the hospice wing of the hospital.