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“You’re a nasty horrible man”. The nurse screamed at the crumpled up human being sat on the end on the damp single bed, “You have no idea what it’s like to look after so many desperate and demanding people. It’s old…bastards like you that make so many of us give up the profession, or worse go private”. The nurse spat the sentence at the man on the bed. Each word delivered with the fine precision of a well-sharpened surgical scalpel.