Beth Israel Deaconess trauma nurses treated bombing suspect like any other patient — almost

The Boston Globe write Beth Israel Deaconess trauma nurses treated bombing suspect like any other patient — almost.

"As she raced to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, that possibility unfolded in her mind. She replayed a conversation she had had with her husband earlier in the week. She wasn’t sure she could nurse a terrorist, she had told him. ‘You have to do it,’’ she recalled him saying. ‘You have to do it so we can get answers.’'"

"All of the nurses asked by supervisors to care for Tsarnaev agreed, the hospital said. The Globe interviewed seven of them, and all said that the ethical bedrock of their profession requires them to treat patients regardless of their personal history. They are sometimes called upon to nurse drunk drivers, prisoners, gang members, but this assignment was the ultimate test of Florence Nightingale’s founding ideals."