Sad but true

A woman's husband is suing the hospital she worked for.  He says they worked her to death with long shifts, no breaks, unreasonable demands.  This is not unbelievable.

It is sad that people who are intelligent and well educated use their gifts to manipulate people into working beyond their physical capabilities and others into accepting less than good care.

Hospitals are not safe places to work and certainly not to be a patient.  Many of them are not much more than a facade for a sweatshop whose main purpose is to squeeze every drop of money possible from the patients and personnel who work there.

What a horrifying and sad situation it is when unemployment is so high and so many qualified people are available, but the people working have to work back to back shifts, or long hours, or miss their breaks in order to keep the place running.  On paper they don't have to do any of these things but in reality they do if they expect to keep their jobs.  Everyone loses -- except the upper echelon whose salaries go up and up.

Our society has made sacred cows out of places that no longer really serve us in the way we want to believe.