On medical job listings

You'd think that one thing that would be virtually recession-proof is medical job listings. People continue to get sick and be in accidents and need medical care, no matter what the economy is like. And I'm sure a bad economy creates certain kinds of problems, if only because people not going to work have more time to run around and do things they shouldn't, and wouldn't if they were on a job. However, hospitals do have to economize and try to make do with as few people as possible, so people with the jobs do get loaded up and overworked. I do think that in general the people who've helped my mother in the past six months have done a good job.