A tribute to nurses | Carolyn Jones

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🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Carolyn Jones spent five years interviewing, photographing and filming nurses across America, traveling to places dealing with some of the nation's biggest public health issues. She shares personal stories of unwavering dedication in this celebration of the everyday heroes who work at the front lines of health care.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features photographic ethnographer Carolyn Jones, recorded live at TEDmed 2016.
0:16.6	As patients, we usually remember the names of our doctors,
0:21.6	but often we forget the names of our nurses.
0:25.6	I remember one.
0:27.6	I had breast cancer a few years ago,
0:29.6	and somehow I managed to get through the surgeries
0:33.6	and the beginning of the treatment just fine.
0:35.6	I could hide what was going on.
0:38.6	Everybody didn't really have to know.
0:40.8	I could walk my daughter to school.
0:42.9	I could go out to dinner with my husband.
0:44.8	I could fool people.
0:47.1	But then my chemo was scheduled to begin,
0:49.4	and that terrified me
0:51.1	because I knew that I was going to lose
0:53.6	every single hair on my body because of the kind of chemo that I was going to lose every single hair on my body
0:55.8	because of the kind of chemo that I was going to have.
0:58.6	I wasn't going to be able to pretend anymore as though everything was normal.
1:03.8	I was scared.
1:05.2	I knew what it felt like to have everybody treating me with kid gloves,
1:08.7	and I just wanted to feel normal.
1:11.3	I had a port installed in my chest.
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