Men may cook, or weave, or dress dolls or hunt humming birds, but if such activities are appropriate occupations of men, then the whole society, men and women alike, votes them as important. This book talked about female nurses during vietnam, along with some of the tragic things they dealt with. The Army had not had female decoders since World War Two. There were very few of them then. But they decided that women could carry more mental stress than males, so because of this factor they decided to try to get women decoders in the Army Security Agency.
Every professional nurse sees death and trauma during the course of a career.
Nurses who work in war zones deal with a lifetime of sadness and loss in one year. If there was a decision to be made, it was taken for granted that the nurse would make it. Their sills were appreciated, their judgments about treatments and patiens care were respected by their medical colleagues.