[jackflashdrive]

"Does it sometimes feel that the only difference between the people who work at the hospital and the patients are that the employess get to go home at night?"

This line was a common among staff, and there is some truth to it. Nurses who seek out the psychiatric field tend to either be lazy, incompetent, or crazy -- so in this regard I guess calling a psych nurse crazy might be the least bad thing you can say.

Also earlier someone asked about comparing psych hospitals to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I answered but forgot to add that a lot of patients deploy the phrase "Nurse Ratchet" intentionally as an insult (though they often get it a little wrong -- "you are forcing me to take my meds? OK Nurse Ratcher"). Strange case of life imitating art.