“Hospitals are filled with caring staff, but resilience and determination are prized as highly as empathy. In the vernacular, it comes down to whether someone’s “got the balls” to make x, y, or z happen. The contrast between the empathy we’re supposed to have and constant talk of “growing a set” or “who’s got the cojones to . . .” can be jarring, but a big rock, no kidding, needs a nurse with the stones to move it.”
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Theresa Brown,
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives