Life: Adrenaline junkies with invisible capes and angel wings

Be sure to check out this profile on the ER nurses of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Excerpt:

ER nurses don’t give long-term care. They don’t get to know you, and they don’t even know what happens to you after you leave the ER. They are a platoon of adrenaline junkies with invisible capes and angel wings, there to take care of you at your worst moments. And it never ends. “Patients are like waves of ocean hitting the beach,” Shari says. “New ones just replace the old ones.”

As someone who has been on a gurney at the CSMC ER, I can only say, where do we find such people? Thank God for each one of them!

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