My Two Cents

The Local, a Swedish newspaper written in English, ran an article yesterday about a nurse at a hospital in Stockholm who was asked to change his name. From now on, Nurse Jesus shall be called by his middle name, Manuel. What’s up with that? (Never mind the odd fact that there’s a Jesus Manuel living in Sweden…)

According to Jesus [and by Jesus, I’m pretty sure they meant Manuel], an auxiliary nurse at Huddinge Hospital, his superiors were worried that patients told "Jesus will be coming soon" might get the wrong idea.

"If they thought that Jesus was coming, they might believe that they were already dead," the nurse told The Local.

The last thing Manuel reportedly wanted to do was to cause any confusion among the patients.