That is a good point. I really do like what I do but if you logically look at things if is insane. I tell medical students the following: Go to college for 4 years ($100K) then medical school for 4 years ($200K) then surgical residency for 5-10 years depending on specialty making about $50K for working ~100-120 hours a week (at least when I did it, not about 80 hours a week), get a job finally for about $250K working about 100 hours per week, be told by the government goons you are rich and pay half that per year in malpractice insurance even if you have never been successfully sued. By the time you are done with all this you could have gotten a job at Walmart right out of high school and done better in the long run without the stress and expense. Besides to do my job today I only have to know what a Social Worker does because there is little medicine involved now, only social problems that are getting worse logarithmically. But I really do like what I do (I have to keep repeating that).
My sister has grown tired of nursing as well. She spends about 85% of her time doing CYA paper work to keep the hospital out of court. Very little time is spent actually attending to patients. She is roped into that work until her kids finish college.