A woman who claims to work as a nurse in an emergency room — and I can't imagine why anyone would lie about this — posted this tweet…
I've been sitting in my car in the hospital parking lot for 20 min trying to process everything that I just experienced these last 13 hours, trying to muster up the energy to drive home. 6 years in the ER & I've never seen a night like last night. Please take this seriously…
That's chilling. I don't know where she works. It could anywhere in this country. But an E.R. nurse sees some pretty horrifying things in the line of duty. At 4 AM one morning when my mother was in the E.R. and we were waiting for lab results, I had a ten-minute talk with a nurse there. You could have built five seasons of a medical drama show just on the stories she told me.
One was about some children who that morning had come in, badly burned from a gas explosion in their homes. I said something about how that must have been terrible to deal with. And she said something like, "The ones that are really hard to deal with emotionally are the ones that could have been prevented."