A pair of new TV shows—HawthoRNe and Nurse Jackie—finally puts nurses front and center. One contributes to longstanding misconceptions about the profession, the other nails real-life nursing like never before
Sitcoms satirize them, the media ignore them, doctors won't listen to them, and now hospitals are laying them off, sacrificing them to corporate medicine -- yet their contribution to patients and families is beyond price.
The ending of the Cold War makes possible the kind of investments in caring that could realize the dream of raising the quality of life. The enemies of that promise are work, will, and time