My Life with a Nurse: A Man's Perspective

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15. That's actually an excellent point

Male nurses are still the exception, but that's changing. It's not a new piece either, not ancient, bit medicine and nursing are going through rapid changes.

And it depends on what kind of nursing you do. I see things that would bother non-nurses every day, we talk among ourselves and there is occasional spillover. I have found no way to convey what I do in the detail it deserves without grossing someone out. When you deal with pain and death and misery and bodily functions every work day, you have to build a sort of wall- it's not so much callous as self protective. I'd love to save the 19 year old cancer patient who has mets, and but I'm not going to.

Why I posted it, is I despise "the naughty nurse" fetish. Pops up every Halloween, and we see it in patients, in family members. Nurses are always to vulnerable to assault because of their work hours. We have security available to escort nurses to their cars at night.