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Also, British nurses have far more direct managerial control over how the hospital wards are run. This may somewhat compensate for their meager wages--which averaged about ��20,000 ($36,000) a year (in a city where almost everything costs twice as much as it does in Manhattan!). There is also much less of a tendency in British medicine to make decisions on the basis of whether one will be sued for that decision. This can lead to a much healthier period of recuperation. For example, as soon as my wife was ambulatory, I was determined to get her out of the hospital as much as possible. Since a stroke is all about the brain, I wanted to clear her head of as much sickness as I could. We���d take off in a wheelchair for two-hour lunches in the lovely little park outside, and three-hour dinners at a nice Japanese restaurant located at a hotel down the street. I swear those long, leisurely dinners, after which we���d sit in the lobby where I���d smoke a cigar and we���d talk for another hour or so, actually helped in my wife���s recovery. It made both of us feel, well, normal. It also helped restore a bit of fun in our relationship, which too often slips away when you just see your loved one in a hospital setting. Now try leaving a hospital as an inpatient in the U.S. In fact, we did try and were frustrated at every step. You���d have better luck breaking out of prison. Forms, permission slips and guards at the gate all conspire to keep you in bounds. It was clear that what prevented us from getting out was the pressing fear on everyone���s part of getting sued. Anything happens on the outside and folks naturally sue the hospital for not doing their job as the patient���s nanny. HYLAND 8