O'Driscoll Traumatised by Mysterious NZ Nurse
New Zealand Herald
New Zealand
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Rugby and medical officials are baffled over the mystery nurse who apparently traumatised Lions captain Brian O'Driscoll after he dislocated his shoulder against the All Blacks.
In an extract from his tour diary, published in the Guardian newspaper in Britain yesterday, the Irish star tells how a "nurse-physio" started to cut his Lions shirt off and tried to souvenir it as he lay in agony in the Jade Stadium medical room.
O'Driscoll likened it to "picking over the bones of the Lions corpse". "Then, and I still can't believe this, the nurse asked me if she could have my Lions shirt," he wrote. "Mother of God, what was she thinking? I've been speared off the bloody pitch after just 40 seconds of a test series and she wants the shirt off my back as well. "What is wrong with this bloody country? Just start treating me like a human being, will you?"
The Order of St John was baffled by O'Driscoll's comments and said it did not have a nurse in the medical room at the test in June.
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See Also:
Where is the mystery nurse?
O'Driscoll: What's wrong with NZ?
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"We are puzzled who that woman was," spokeswoman Amy McDermott said yesterday. "We did not provide any medical treatment to injured players; that was controlled by the Lions medical team. "We only supplied his transport from the pitch to the medical room and later on to the hospital, and again under supervision of the Lions medical team."
Canterbury regional operations manager Chris Haines said O'Driscoll might be referring to a Lions medical team member. "That appears to be the case ... We're scratching our head about this one." The NZ Rugby Union said it, too, was unable to identify the mystery nurse as "there is only a match doctor on duty", but was surprised by O'Driscoll's comments.
Oct 27, 2005
New Zealand HeraldNew Zealand
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Rugby and medical officials are baffled over the mystery nurse who apparently traumatised Lions captain Brian O'Driscoll after he dislocated his shoulder against the All Blacks.
In an extract from his tour diary, published in the Guardian newspaper in Britain yesterday, the Irish star tells how a "nurse-physio" started to cut his Lions shirt off and tried to souvenir it as he lay in agony in the Jade Stadium medical room.
O'Driscoll likened it to "picking over the bones of the Lions corpse". "Then, and I still can't believe this, the nurse asked me if she could have my Lions shirt," he wrote. "Mother of God, what was she thinking? I've been speared off the bloody pitch after just 40 seconds of a test series and she wants the shirt off my back as well. "What is wrong with this bloody country? Just start treating me like a human being, will you?"
The Order of St John was baffled by O'Driscoll's comments and said it did not have a nurse in the medical room at the test in June.
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See Also:
Where is the mystery nurse?
O'Driscoll: What's wrong with NZ?
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"We are puzzled who that woman was," spokeswoman Amy McDermott said yesterday. "We did not provide any medical treatment to injured players; that was controlled by the Lions medical team. "We only supplied his transport from the pitch to the medical room and later on to the hospital, and again under supervision of the Lions medical team."
Canterbury regional operations manager Chris Haines said O'Driscoll might be referring to a Lions medical team member. "That appears to be the case ... We're scratching our head about this one." The NZ Rugby Union said it, too, was unable to identify the mystery nurse as "there is only a match doctor on duty", but was surprised by O'Driscoll's comments.
Oct 27, 2005
