> nurses This is actually a blind spot of the German system. You simply cannot compare the skill set of a college-educated nurse and one that was trained under

> nurses This is actually a blind spot of the German system. You simply cannot compare the skill set of a college-educated nurse and one that was trained under the apprenticeship system. This means in particular that in Germany you need a doctor to do things that in (say) America a nurse could easily handle on their own.