Jay Cuesta grew up planning to go to medical school. Then, in 2000, his premature infant died at just two weeks old, and Cuesta’s vision for the future was realigned.
Cuesta told The Epoch Times that nurses were beside him and his wife throughout their ordeal. Nurses were beside them when the child they knew would not survive was born. Nurses were beside them as they grieved in the otherwise sterile hospital environment.
They were beside them through it all.
“I knew what kind of medicine I wanted to practice,” Cuesta said. “That’s the hands-on that I wanted.”
According to recent statistics, many nurses, perhaps the very nurses who inspired Cuesta, are now burnt out, fed up, and ready to quit….