The black Caribbean nurses just starting to appear were known as well meaning but dimwitted.
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“No girl goes into nursing unless she has a lot of compassion and empathy and cares about other people, and has a desire to be a caretaker. Yet interestingly, there’s also a certain amount of emotional dissociation you have to go through each workday.
“A lot of my behavior in my twenties, I was dissociative. I was in a dissociative state. How many women do you find who are sweet, intelligent, and dissociative? That’s an extremely rare combination. But the one job that selects for those traits is nursing!”