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Hey, everybody, Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation

episode. So every episode of the week that just happened is here in one convenient and with

somewhat less ads package for you to listen to in a long stretch if you want. If you've been

listening to the episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing new here for you, but

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Welcome back to It Could Happen here, a podcast about things falling apart and occasionally even about how to put some other things back together.

Today we're going to be talking about something that is increasingly a part of what we like to call the crumbles around here,

which is the health care system in this country and the hospital system in this country,

as it kind of gets crunched by COVID.

And we're going to particularly talk about a really critical aspect of our

entire medical infrastructure that a lot of people don't know about traveling nurses. And with me

today is our guest, Ann, Ann, you are a traveling nurse from New York to California all around

the country. Thanks for being on the show. Glad to be here. Yeah. So I live in Colorado and I

was a regular staff nurse until COVID hit. And at that time, we expected it to crunch everywhere.

But my home hospital, like many places that worked on the coast, ended up being really empty when everybody locked down and stopped getting into car accidents and going to parties and all of the other things that bring people into the ER and ICU.

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