Let me tell you about bedpans

You see, it worked. This title grabbed your attention just like Suzanne Gordon said it would. Suzanne Gordon is a journalist, not a nurse, so she ought to know something about grabbing a reader's attention. As it happens, she also knows something about nursing. If you want to be convinced, read her widely praised new book Life Support--Three Nurses on the Front Lines (Little, Brown 1997). So how does it happen that she is able to write and speak with authority about nursing? Because nurses talked with her about what they do, how they do it, and why. And now she talks back to nurses. Tells us that our passion and anger are all that stand between us and the death of care giving. Challenging things like that.