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November 6th, 2012
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originally published in the NYTimes
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.

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When a book is heavy with glossy photographs, you seldom expect too much from its words. In "The American Nurse," though, it's the narrative that hits you in the solar plexus.

Take the comments of Jason Short, a hospice nurse in rural Kentucky. Mr. Short started out as an auto mechanic, then became a commercial trucker. "When the economy went under," he says, "I thought it would be a good idea to get into health care." But a purely pragmatic decision became a mission: Mr. Short found his calling among the desperately ill of Appalachia and will not be changing careers again.

"Once you get a taste for helping people, it's kind of addictive," he says, dodging the inspirational verbiage that often smothers the healing professions in favor of a single incontrovertible point.

Some of the 75 nurses who tell their stories in this coffee-table book headed into the work with adolescent passion; others backed in reluctantly just to pay the bills. But all of them speak of their difficult, exhilarating job with the same surprised gratitude: "It's a privilege and honor to do what I do," says one. "I walk on sacred ground every day."

   
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