An Homage to Nurses on National Nurses Week

My father was a pediatrician. When I was growing up there were always incoming calls into our house from patients of my father. When my father wasn’t there, my mother would take the calls and dispense worldly and medical advice (after all, she brought up five children) to anxious patients. She wasn’t a nurse, but could have been. Mothers nurse their children at birth and nurse them when ill. I guess for all of us the first nurse we encounter…