Like soldiers, they were in a battle, and some were injured, and disabled, yet they received no pension, no free medical care, and were cast out on the street to fend for themselves. The patients who scratched them, bit them, struck them, kicked them, cursed at them. The arrogant doctors who couldn't function without them. The hospital administrators who made the nurses stand in the hallway all day, and then increased the shifts to 12 hours...