At their best, patients think they are entitled to blame their health miseries on nurses. Oh, if there’s someone who will take my grievances with life is the nurse, after all that’s their job to console and care for me. At worse, patients are downright hostile to nurses. Nurses are frequently verbally attacked, insulted, threatened, blackmailed, and treated like criminals. And some, poor souls have been beaten, punched, stabbed and even murdered by patients. Oh you’re exaggerating, no I’m not, look it up. All of this under the auspices of: your American health corporations.