Publisher's Synopsis
"Nurses" is based on interviews with all kinds of nurses in which the author tries to discover why many thousands of these men and women stick to such a difficult and ill-paid job, whilst thousands of others are leaving the profession every year.;Donald Gould, who qualified as a doctor from St Thomas' Medical School and was medical correspondent for the "New Statesman" discusses the people behind the uniform. On the whole he shows nurses to be happy and compassionate and only complaining when pressures make it impossible for them to do the job as well as they would wish. He shows too how the profession provides an opportunity for the exercise of every kind of talent, from the highly scientific skills demanded by intensive care, to "making do" in the African bush and from easing the aproach of death, to managing a workforce of thousands.
