To the editors:
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Thank you for your recent piece on nursing at Cook County Hospital, Neighborhood News, October 26th. It points to a crucial and often overlooked issue that is fundamental to health care restructuring, that is the recognition and empowerment of health care providers who are the backbone of our health care system. Nurses don’t typically make the headlines, but they are indeed providing services that are most often associated with achieving and recovering good health. Despite our society’s persistent infatuation with a high tech curing approach, most of our health problems demand knowledgeable and skillful caring (prenatal education and counseling, health maintenance for children, long term care for the chronically ill and elderly) that are part of the art and science of nursing.
Signe Gleeson
