The nurse

As a recently retired nurse in Belfast, Pamela McMillen has seen more deliberate injuries than most in her profession.

Pamela knows the true value of a free public health service. When she was a girl, in Sligo in the Irish Republic, her mother was saved from death only when her father paid the doctor to come out to see her.

She reflects that training methods and patients' attitudes to nurses have changed considerably since she began her career in the 1960s.

But, as she explained to Hugh Sykes, what she finds really shocking is the violence directed against the nurses themselves.

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