93 percent
An annual U.K. survey asking people whom they trusted most found nurses absurdly credible, with 93 percent of people trusting them. [The Guardian] {My source: FiveThirtyEight.com}
This is for my sister, mother, wife, several aunts on both sides of the family, and a bunch of friends who are nurses. Also for my daughter who is in training to be a nurse. I don’t know what the figure would be in the U. S., but I bet it would be pretty good.
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Well, nurses do seem to care sincerely with their patients, much more so than doctors. I have several cousins and aunts who are nurses all over the world.
But isn’t more than half of nurses in the US foreign born and ineligible for president? š
True, but not all of them are ineligible. š