The Bold and the Beautiful - MESSAGE BOARDS

Wait, is Taylor a psychologist or psychiatrist? In her profession, would she not recognize Ridge is becoming addicted to the medication? The Ridge was looking at her with his bleery eyes, she should have noticed. According to a spoiler from Touched, Taylor doesn't realize this mistake until after they do the deed.

I didn't hear her say Diazapem but that is what some Dr told a character on Y&R to take. Popular drug this week.
Dr or not Taylor was wrong (morally and ethically) for giving Ridge her prescribed meds. Certainly she is aware of the heart thing and you never know how a person will react to a med.
She is aware he is taking them because Stephanie told her. She will give them again I bet. She likes the place he goes to when he is on them.

[quote]Quote mdtuttle: [quote]Quote Mona Lisa: Sorry for the commotion I caused. Being a nurse, I really look for slip ups, when a storyline pertains to a medical situation. I am retired, now, but believe me. in my experience, I had the fear of God, in me, when it came to medication, lorileli, is absolutely right. Had he had a bad reaction and had side effects, or died, and it was found in blood, investigation would have been done, and it tracked back to Taylor, there would have been trouble. Yes Ridge got more, and that was wrong, but his response of getting more shows how addicting the drug is.[/quote]

You have nothing to be sorry for. You started a very well thought out thread. I did miss Taylor saying what the drug was. I do agree with you that giving Ridge the first pill may not have been the smartest thing in the world Taylor could have done. She probably thinks the same thing in hindsight. My point is even though Taylor gave him that first pill because she thought he was in crisis and needed something to help him, she had nothing to do with the other times he took her meds. Ridge helped himself to the pills in her purse. Even though he said he would have taken them in front of her but she was out of the room, you notice he always seemed to wait untill she was out of the room to go through her purse and find them. HE took the other pills without her knowledge or consent.

Now if Ridge had been a child I would have said Taylor bore some responsibility for not keeping the drugs out of reach. But as Ridge is an adult shouldn't Taylor be able to assume something would be safe in her purse? If Ridge had decide to steal Taylor's cash or credit cards for example would that have been Taylor's fault for not having her purse with her at all times?[/quote]







Well, I can assure you that if this was the case, he would not have had the multiple opportunities, as he had with the drugs, to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

She most definately would have wise up and hid her purse or at least have it on her person. In other words, if Ridge was a thief she would not keep presenting the opportunities for him to continue stealing her things from her purse.

You know it-michaelee!!
We know that Taylor is aware that Ridge took pills without her knowledge--BUT she continues to leave the pills available (in the same taking place) and leaves the room!
And --Oh Yea--she is a Psychiatrist....
(You and I know the score!)

Who cares how much she gave him.They showed him taking 5 pills today. YOU can not function on that many pills nor have sex. This storyline is utterly ridiculous even for a soap opera. For us to believe you can take 5 pills with wine,the writers have to believe their audience is stupid.

Soap opera or not,something that glaringly obvious is ridiculous.