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Bernie Sanders: “Nurses would come into my office and they'd start…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Sen. Bernie Sanders | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #635

Published | Video Starts at 03:47

You know, they're with you when babies are born, they're with you when you die, they're with you in between. They're at your bedside. … Nurses would come into my office and they'd start crying...they didn't have the number of nurses they needed. … they were unable to do the jobs, to do the work that they were trained and wanted to do, that they didn't have the number of nurses they needed, the staffing ratios that they needed. (03:47–03:54)

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Asserts that nurses are emotionally distressed due to insufficient staffing.

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