'The View' Cast 2015: Nurse Says An Apology Should Be Given For 'Doctor's Stethoscope' Comment [VIDEO]
It's only been a week since The View premiered its new season and it's already causing controversy.
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On Monday, Michelle Collins made a comment about Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson at the 2016 Miss America pageant when the contestant talked about her profession as a nurse for the talent part of the race.
Collins said that Johnson "basically read her emails out loud- and shockingly did not win. She helps patients with Alzheimer's, which is not funny, but I swear, you had to see it."
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Joy Behar chimed in with, "Why does she have a doctor's stethoscope around her neck?"
A nurse named Hilary Helkenn took to her Facebook page to voice her response over these comments, something she was not at all pleased with.
"It is a NURSE stethoscope too," she wrote. "I use it to listen to a child's lungs, so I can quickly get them to the appropriate level of care, reassuring both child and parent. I also use it to listen to our elderly loved ones, who sometimes have aging hearts that go into abnormal rhythms. It is the NURSE that usually sees the patient first, and it is often the NURSE that notifies the doctor of what is going on."
Helkenn then added that an apology should be given.
"Your comments denigrated our most noble profession. You owe all of the nurses of this world an apology."
