title: Introduction
abstract: In 1922 an in ter est ing exchange took place in Moscow's Botkin hospital concerning a "delicate and even shy" patient who had just had a bullet extracted from his neck and was recovering in ward no.44. 1 The patient wanted to know all about his nurse, the other patients, and the medical personnel.He even asked the nurse why she looked so "bad" and questioned the professor tending to him about why this nurse was "working day and night, without rest."He noticed the physical toll nursing work took
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