A very small percentage of people every year are hospitalized, maybe 10 or 15 percent. So those people begin to learn about nursing. People that they interviewed in that study had just been in the hospital, they were very aware of nursing and lack of care. Nurses are regarded as honest and ethical but their breadth of skill is not known. When I was at the Beth Israel hospital, I was on the oncology clinic, followed these nurses for two years.
Doctor comes in one day.
Had a patient with breast cancer and the patient died. The husband gives him a trip around the world. The woman died, so it didn't work. The people who cared for her were the nurses. The people who take care of her were her nurses.