[TorqueDog]

A nurse making $510k in a year is indicative of a problem.

It's not a problem that they earned the money.

It's a problem that:
- a nurse working hard enough to make $510k a year is going to be completely wiped out every day, working at the limits of their physical and mental faculties on very, very little rest.
- patients are being looked after by a nurse who is not getting sufficient rest and may be prone to making mistakes.
- $510k a year -- which could hire ~6 RNs or ~8 LPNs and dramatically improve the resulting level of care -- is being spent on just one.

Having known a few nurses myself, Locke hit the nail on the head; nurses making deep six figures even half-way to the amount we're talking about are not doing it purposely and certainly are not enjoying it. Hell, the ones that don't even come close to this are overworked to death.