Marcus Parks

almost like a workplace hazard yeah yeah it's like a cancer yeah it was something that people had to deal with you know and and it's almost like the entire like a hot entire hospital is just full as full of asbestos and you got to do your best to not let the asbestos into the lungs of the patients but it's gonna get in there but if you get rid of the asbestos you have to get rid of the whole fucking hospital

Exactly.

It's the biggest thing.

Exactly.

Yeah.

But the authorities told the staff and told themselves that since Jimmy Salvo was so high profile...

He must be okay.

He has to be okay.

There's no way that this guy's doing anything irregular.

So it would be best if the staff just forgot about whatever it was that they thought they saw.

As such, as I said, the staff at Stoke Mandeville had to treat Jimmy Savile as a work hazard, even when they themselves became patients.

One nurse recovering from her own spinal surgery, for example, told another nurse that if she saw Jimmy Savile come anywhere near her during her recovery, she'd, quote, scream the place down.

The other nurse, however, just shrugged at this comment and walked away because everyone at Stoke Mandeville believed that there was nothing they could do about Jimmy Savile besides endure and, of course, do their best to protect patients however they could.

And Stoke Mandeville is fucking huge.

Oh, yeah.

You know, so it's hard.

It's like Cedars-Sinai.

Yeah, it's huge.

It's multiple buildings.

There's a huge campus.