Oh, it’s not so much the patients that would bother me. It’s the making-decisions-and-judgement-calls-that-could-kill-someone that would bother me. You have to be almost arrogantly self-assured in some ways, I think. And that’s...pretty much the opposite of me. Maybe why I admire ‘em so much. Nurses, too.
His wife is a surgical oncologist; talk about responsibility!
I don't "admire" them much but I had my fill of doctors and hospitals long ago. That, and my parents were both nurses, and they were *not* nice people.