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Nurses
once again ranked the highest in the annual CNN/USA Today/Gallup
poll in which Americans rated the honesty and ethical standards
of people in various professions. Nurses topped the ranking
of 23 professions in the November 2003 poll, with 83 percent
of respondents rating them "very high" or "high"
for honesty and ethics. This is up from 79 percent in 2002.
Medical
doctors (68 percent), veterinarians (68 percent), pharmacists
(67 percent) and dentists (61 percent) rounded out the top
five highest rated professionals.
Nurses
have ranked the highest in four of the five years that the
profession has been included in the poll. Nurses came in second
to firefighters in 2001 in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks.
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