I wonder if you see how incredible that statement is. Not the staement, so much as the scene!!! How outrageous to think that these people, running on empty, are in fact "nursing" others. ( and many of us know that it's the nurses, often, who practise the most True medicine: first, do no harm...)
I like your offbeat view of things. (Hope you are not chronically dehydrated, as most coffee drinks are.) Imagine how you could change the whole nursing realm, one small, quiet Water Fast at a time...
"slowly slowly, catchee monkey". I don't know who said it first, but it sounds apt.