"if you want to here some really 'politically incorrect' stuff and some truly sick humour, try spending a few days with a bunch of nurses. Particularly those skilled and dedicated individuals working at the really sharp end of nursing..."

Hell yes! I could find nothing bad to say about the Nurses I've known. They are the best party animals the good Christian God ever made. The best bunch of real people you'd ever want to meet.

Not a nu-age crystal to be found amongst them as a rule, but some very sick jokes to be sure. And of course an abundance of pragmatic life-saving, earthy human healing love, of the kind that includes cleaning festering sores, washing shitty arses, and pumping stomachs etc.

Most the Nurses I know are earthy, utterly irreligious, materialists. And a few illegal or perhaps 'anarchic' things to boot. Doesn't mean that they are therefore inhumane robots. In fact quite the opposite. At least they don't attribute your sickness to some karmic evil.