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Mother Teresa had no formal training as a nurse.

Mother Teresa's lack of basic training in health care is demonstrated by the haphazard and ineffective care provided to patients. Dr. Robin Fox, editor of the British medical journal The Lancet visited the Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta and observed that sisters and volunteers, some of whom had no medical knowledge, were making decisions about patient care, Dr. Fox observed that her order did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment. He noted that the sisters' approach to managing pain was "disturbingly lacking." These were situations for which Dr. Fox specifically held Teresa responsible. She was not only unable to provide supervision and training in health care to the nuns, but was even unwilling to buy books to help with the medical work although, according to Collete Livermore, a former nun in the order, there was sufficient money donated for the purpose.

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