Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

Managers of hospitals, over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.