Oddly enough I love medical shows, much as I do sit and hoot derision at how unrealistic some of them are, like Nurse Jackie and HawthoRN.

I think you covered nursing pretty well. Once medicine became privatized business, the care level started dropping where I had worked dramatically, year by year, as the workload increased.

And you sure do point out about how the teachers are really underpaid. Most of them don't want to work as nurses anymore. A couple of the ones that I had didn't really like caring for patients at all anymore. And I had one that actually did pop valium in front of us on clinical duty days, because she was always a nervous wreck, screaming at us in front of patients.