Need for reform in the way medical personnel deal with patients

I've seen some nurses go at nursing  like they are taking on the problem themselves, in short I've seen them try to keep someone a live with tears in thier eyes trying to suceed. I've some nurse's right down grouchy..and egoistical...I've seen some so happy and life is all tra-la-la and didn't know diddly squat..I think they lived in an different reailty perhaps...my grandmother was an nurse...I can remember one time when I cut my finger, I expected her to be all over it with an band-aide...instead she said...What do you do about it if your bleeding?"...which meant.."take care of yourself". It helped to toughen me up to an world that does much the same...and teach me to knwo what to do to take care of myself in this world. When I was the hosptial,in critical condition waiting to get my gall stones and gall bladder removed, by day four of nothing to eat, and water only off an sponge to moisten my mouth a bit, the night before surrgery after everyone had gone home for the night the little nurse I had came in an sat with me for an bit. We talked a bit, just everyday type of things...family and such. she asked me if I was scared, and I told her it was an bit to late to be scared now...and she said, I'll be around if you need anything you know...but she was so "geniune"sounding that I found it comforting at the time. Then they gave me an self-pain dosing cord, I pushed this little button if I wasn't feeling so good, it admisistered pain relief through the IV I was hooked up to, and in comes my son with his wife..and he says as he pickes up the cord and presses it about 20 times in an row, "How ya feelin Mom!?"...I thought I'd faint...in comes the little nurse and she says, "Don't worry"...we account for things like this ahead of time...and shakes her head at my son,,as if "they are helpless I guess...acting like kids will" When I had the heart operation, my PHD cardiologist comesinan informsme he'staking me to an major hosptial to check things out downtown...he must of read my mind..because he says, to make sure you get there, we have an ambulance waiting...it's the only way you will leave this hospital...so I'm pretty niffed, because NO ONE tells me what I"M GOING TO DO...after it was over I realized he saved my life..I was at that time 95 per cent dead.Well, before I left that hospital, I saw him and I told him that I had been for months been given the "run around" on why my arm was alway hurting..and so I knew I wasn' t very cordial to him...but I now realized that he knew what he was doing and if it hadn't been forced to go there, I most likely would be dead now. Ever since it we have worked at it month by month...and it's an struggle...it's as bad as any addiction I think. I go in next week for another surgical procedure on my tooth. It's kind of got me an bit weary also...as I know they will be picking it out bit by bit, the drugs I'm on makes me more of an bleeder then ususal, I've already seen my hubby's neice die of an simple dentist appt...but again, they assure me that they know what they are doing, let's hope so. I then go an see the cardologist again. How I wish I could lose more weight by then. I think that an good nurse is like anything, it goes beyond the training...it's an god-given talent to some people. They just seem to know when to do the right thing.I have been subjected to some of the best and some of the could be better in my life. I've been asked several times by different people to go into nursing myself, as they think I would make an great one in the profession. Our director of nursing told me that with my Red Cross training that she felt I had more training then many of her nurses aides did, though they have since that changed their procedure also...before going out on the floor. In timesof weather emergency I've worked the floor helping out as I could...and I found that there is one thing that seems to help even those they say that are next to mentally deficient..they call it "respect" (of their opinion).. fair treatment....honest answers.