Nursing Profession Is the Most Admired

Re “Those Angels in White,” your Dec. 23 editorial about the Gallup Poll on the most respected professions: I’m pleased that the nursing profession was rated the highest. It deserves it. I have been hospitalized several times and found it was the nurses, both registered and assistants, who made my recovery possible by their patience and concern. It is not surprising that the human services professions rate the highest and the business and political groups the lowest. Each profession earns its own rating. That’s why car salesmen are at the bottom.

Robert Freeman

Huntington Beach

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Nurses are at the top of the admiration quotient in the Gallup Poll. How wonderful for a profession that is suffering a national shortage of members to hear this good news! I would like to encourage all men and women who care about people and are willing to study and work hard to join our ranks in a profession that is satisfying, meaningful and never boring. I want to set you straight on only one issue. Most of us no longer wear white.

Jeanie Delaney Karon RN

Encino