Perspective by Geraldine Gorman, RN, PHD.

摘要

My pulse quickened at the call to resistance. In a time when war has become baseline and routinized and when we have ceased to commemorate our losses as American casualties move from 1000 to 2000 to 3... (as of this writing, 4439 American soldiers have died in Iraq and in Afghanistan the number is 1496 and quickly escalating) and Lord knows we have no real idea how many Afghan and Iraqi civilians and combatants have died since we make no effort to keep track and when the anniversaries of these wars come and go with barely a whimper-resist, us? The authors, Canadians and Australian, addressed us not only as Americans but also as nurses and nurse educators. They bade us to resist-in their opening sentence! Imagine.