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Marek Edelman - You need to appreciate the nurses (130/145)

To listen to more of Marek Edelman’s stories, go to the playlist:    • Marek Edelman - Recollecting my parents (1...   Marek Edelman (1919-2009) was the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He had remained in Poland following the Nazi defeat and was active in domestic and international politics while at the same time becoming one of Poland’s leading cardiologists. [Listeners: Anka Grupinska, Joanna Klara Agnieszka Zuchowska, Joanna Szczesna; date recorded: 2003] TRANSCRIPT: [L] But perhaps you'd like to say more about what it was like in the beginning? You could say more about that because I don't remember anything at all. [L] What was it like in the beginning? We got rid of the tables. [L] We got rid of the tables. In the beginning, the nurses who were employed there came straight out of nursing school and were full of enthusiasm, unprepared for such hard work and for those demands... But they were such beautiful girls. They worked, they had a very hard job because there was a ward we called intensive cardiac therapy. We had doctors, all three of us worked together, doctors who worked a 24-hour shift three times a week, and so we became so close that those girls went beserk and worked like clockwork. And actually, to this day they're still there, we were the only ones because at a nurses convention there was a question about: How long does a nurse work in intensive care. On average, it's up to five years whereas ours have been there for 15 because the atmosphere is good, they're appreciated, they're not treated like dogs. I don't know whether it's the same now in Anino, I'm not sure. But we were the only ones who had this kind of statistic. And today these girls, it's been more than 20 years, they're almost all still there, some are ill but the rest are still there.