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November 7, 2026 · 168 words

Thirty-one years of night shifts

Dear President, I have worked nights in hospitals for thirty-one years. I have held the hands of people dying alone because their families couldn't get off work, and I have watched my own knees and back give out lifting patients because there weren't enough of us on the floor. When I started, I had four patients a night. Now it's…

— A night-shift nurse