Originally Posted by
gojko88
While I disagree with the tone of the above poster, you have to understand the sheer number of Americans who think that as soon as a country is in the CNN evening news, safety must be compromised there. The country is just having some financial troubles - quite a leap from that to large-scale civil unrest or whatever it is that you fear. Hence the knowledge base comment.
It just never fails to surprise me how these boards are used as a personal vehicle for release.
What prompted my initial post was a NY Times front page article about how their hospitals cannot afford nurses and they are being flooded with people posing as nurses. Allowed to enter the premises and appear at bedsides looking for compensation. It just contributes to non Americans like myself to seek the counsel of people with experience.