@lokiJr im a nurse.. sick kids don't <b>cure </b>themselves just because it's christmas. there's always a kid who still can't breathe..a heart that won't pump.. if you want to give us a holiday... fine. but you better be sure if <b>you </b>have a kid who is ventilated/ intubated and whose heart is only pumping because of inotropes pumped through central lines.. that there is a nurse/ doctor in the unit and not out having a holiday like the rest of the populace.
unless you as a parent is happy for 1 day that you look after your own child while your child is in the verge of death.. while the nurses/ doctors go on a holiday..cause like you said may work to do bah on the 25th??
if it weren't for the "double" pay and the type of pay we get.. we'd be taking a day off too you know cause we got families too.
and if some drunkard who had too much to drink at their barbecue smash into your car on your way to a christmas party....and you've lacerated your liver against the steering wheel, smashed your skull against the window and gotten a subdural hematoma the size of a golf ball, gotten a C1 fracture ...you better wish that the type of "business" called hospitals are opened because with that type of fracture..you'd be lucky you won't be dead on the spot.
have a happy holiday and be thankful that the medical profession work on holidays to keep people who are sick and dying alive for another christmas which may or may not be their last.