I guarantee you, you are causing discomfort and embarrassment to the nurses forced to ask 70 year old male patients if they are or could be pregnant.
Your guarantee is worthless because you are not in any position to know what the nurses will feel.
I've already seen nurses talk about it
So, you generalize about an entire profession?
No. I said I guarantee nurses are feeling discomfort and embarrassment. They are. "Nurses" does not mean every nurse who has ever existed, just as when I say "men are taller than women" I do not mean "every man who has ever lived is taller than every woman who has ever lived".
If you were not talking about all nurses or the actual nurses who worked at that UK health trust, then your "guarantee" was truly worthless.
I was talking about at least one nurse who worked at the trust and wrote about it.
But also some human beings have developed something called 'empathy', and they can imagine themselves in another's position, and they can imagine what it would feel like.
I know a lot of nurses. Indeed, I have tremendous empathy for the many indignities, frustrations, hard work, lack of respect, grueling hours and too often disrespect they must endure on a daily basis—often from
physicians, hospital administrators, and occasionally from patients and their families. Like most people, they do not enjoy extra paperwork and endless forms. Yet they also can point to cases where something very unusual and quite unexpected with regards to a patient’s apparent condition happened. Forms, stand procedures and checklists help medical professionals ensure that they are not overlooking important detains which might not be obvious or readily apparent.
Perhaps Great Britain is different than the US but here, forms and standard questions are developed in response to actual needs and events however unusual they might be.