Millennials and Empty Hospitals: A Vignette
My wife and I had just dropped my aunty at a hospital hostel where she is staying and where a good number of floors are closed because of a lack of staff. The same is true for several other hospitals and healthcare facilities where I’m from. The puzzling thing is, over ten years ago, when the vast majority of us millennials were still in college, a good number of our generation majored in nursing and other medical programs. In our own college alma mater alone, nursing block sections would reach well past Z and into the double letters, going all the way to blocks AA, AB, etc. Fast forward to the present decade, and the high number of enrollees nursing programs enjoyed in the late 2000s and early 2010s should have translated into adequately staffed hospitals or even a surplus of licensed medical staff. But this is far from the case. Harbison and Myers stated that “a country which is unable to develop the skills and knowledge of its people and to utilize them effectively will be u...