I was inspired to work here after my dad was hospitalized with prostrate cancer.  He's doing fine now. My dad is a normal sized, non alcholic, non drug addict, functional, responsible member of society and for some reason I assumed that most of the patients I would be caring for would be like him. It's pretty common, at least on the unit that I work on, for patients to be fat and/or drunks and/or drug addicts and just generally wastes of life. I will say it is pretty inspiring for me though to be a respectable person.