Oh for goodness sake - how cheap can you get?!?!

[SheilaT]

7. I'm sure that's true.

The one and only hospital here in Santa Fe, which is owned by a large corporation but is nontheless "not for profit", is in a real battle with the nurses' union over staffing. This particular hospital, as I understand it, is the only one in the chain that has a union, and the corporation would dearly love to bust the union.

As a side note, I am very bothered by the fact that so many nurses and other direct patient care people work a ten or twelve hour shift. Even if they only work four or three days a week -- and a lot of them simply pick up overtime shifts -- no one is as remotely as fresh and alert after ten or twelve hours as they are after only six or so.