When Dom got the insurance papers back, he noticed that under medical problems, a nurse had written, "mild retardation."

The nurse wrote ninety-five on his sheet and telephoned down to the ward sister.

"We cannot get an M.D. to see the patient," the nurse wrote.

"They could not provide more information on the patient," a nurse wrote one day.

One nurse wrote that end of life was not even mentioned during her training.

Patients "who had not been out of bed for weeks began to trail weakly about, clinging to walls and furniture," wrote one nurse.

He walked along and passed a desk where a nurse was writing a report.

"All kinds of people have found us useful," wrote one "hourly" nurse in 1905.

When Piaget was 15, his former nurse wrote to his parents to confess that she had made up the entire story.

IN the late 1980's and early 90's, nurses could almost write their own tickets.