title: Voices - Our new voices columnist Rosemary Cook celebrates nurses' courage.
abstract: The conflict between Lebanon and Israel has gripped our attention with shocking pictures of death and destruction. One story to emerge from the carnage concerned the nurses who stayed behind in a damaged hospital because they would not abandon their patients.
authors.affiliation: The Queen's Nursing Institute.
authors.forename: Rosemary
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cook