Year of the Nurse

This book is for everyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down — and how 2021 is going.

In 2020 there were roughly four million nurses in America. Only 2.7 million U.S. soldiers fought in the Vietnam War. Those who came back from Vietnam, having witnessed atrocities—and in some cases, participated in them—were changed forever.

You can't send four million people into a wartime-equivalent situation without psychological consequences.

And yet that's what America has done.

Nurses spent a year battling a largely unknown assailant. Running low on gear. Fearing we might bring something deadly home. Getting coughed on by people who pretended that our fights were imaginary, that our struggles—watching people die, day after day, no matter what we did—were literally fake.

Nurses are scarred.

And unless people understand what we went through and commit to never let anyone lie in...