Sanity is madness put to good use. – George Santayana
We’ve all heard about the exploits of Secret Agent James Bond, but few of us know much about Miss Moneypenny. She is secretary to M, who is Bond’s boss and head of the British Secret Service. Well, if the news media is reporting this story accurately, I believe that Miss Moneypenny and her girlfriends who work at the CIA attended nursing school on their off hours from work.
According UPI Asia Online, the CIA faked a vaccination program near Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout before the raid that killed him hoping to get his family’s DNA. They wanted to get evidence that bin Laden’s family lived where the CIA believed the al-Qaida leader was hiding out.
At one point, a nurse managed to gain entry into bin Laden’s compound to administer the vaccines, and possibly record conversations, or leave behind a surveillance device.
I don’t know about you, but I didn’t learn about surveillance devices in nursing school. I think James taught Miss Moneypenny more than just how to make a darn good martini .
The Curmudgeon
July 19th, 2011 at 10:21 am
My daughter has never mentioned anything about learning to plant surveillance devices as part of her training. Perhaps it’s something new. Maybe she doesn’t know about it because there’s no continuing education requirement for nurses in the State of Indiana?
thirddegreenurse
July 21st, 2011 at 7:54 am
Love this!
stillanurse
August 16th, 2011 at 11:31 am
Some perspective on Miss Moneypenny and other ‘sexy librarian’ types in pop culture down through the years, from a boomer nurse who remembers them all
InterOpNurse gets a mention at Careers in Health Site- InterOpNurse
October 10th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
[...] Nurse Ratched’s Place Mother Jones shares her experiences as a psychiatric nurse and reflections on the health-care industry in general. Some recent posts include “The Perils and Pitfalls of Working Night Shifts”, “Refrigerator Nurse” , and “Miss Moneypenny, RN”. [...]