Anti-WM sentiment is everywhere. Wal-Mart purchased a full-page back cover advertisement in the American Journal of Nursing with the words "It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to recognize a good deal on scrubs," written on a cast. Of course, unionized nurses were aghast!
To their credit, the journal editors gave WM a chance to respond.
Wal-Mart has agreed to change the ad's wording in other publications. A copy of the original can be found here.
Posted by Kevin on July, 21 2005 at 09:48 AM
Roy W. Wright wrote:More than 100,000 union nurses in the United American Nurses receive this journal as part of their membership. I speak for them when I protest Wal-Mart’s appearance in AJN.
Ah, the follies of collectivism, to believe that because those 100,000 nurses belong to the same union, they must be political clones.
The mythologic hierarchy that places physicians at the top and nurses at the bottom is pervasive
in the media, which influence young people as they choose careers. This ad sends a message that’s not much different: nursing is a career someone would
settle for if she isn’t smart enough to become a physician.Mythologic? Would this writer have us believe that physicians are not more skilled than nurses? Would she advise a young person with a real choice between the two careers to choose nursing? Nursing is a career someone would settle for if he or she isn’t able (doean't have the time, desires, abilities, or means) to become a physician.
-- July 21, 2005 01:43 PM ∞
