Abstract

In recent months, I've had two personal opportu nities to witness those about whom Mary E. Guy, Meredith A. Newman, and Sharon H. Mastracci write. In the first instance, a hospitalization put my well-being in the hands of nurses and nursing aides. In the second, my family attended to my father while he died in the care of a local dementia care unit and a hospice organization. In both cases, we depended on the skilled labor, care, and kindness of so-called ser vice workers who make only a fraction of my own state salary. In both cases, the workers were women.

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