title: Better to matter than merely count.
abstract: when at the age of 42 I gave up my accountancy job in a City bank and became a student nurse at one sixth of the salary I upset the material expectations of a lot of people. But it was money, the symbol of security for so many, that was partly the cause of my undoing.
authors.affiliation: In Cambridge.
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authors.lastname: Hay