They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.
Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.
The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.
My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.
America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.
At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.
I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
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