<p>Temple’s nursing school building is right next to the Temple medical center. It is a rougher area of Phila. than the main campus, which is about 20 blocks further south. When I was there a couple years ago, there was a deteriorated building right across the street from the nursing school. Other people have described that health care inside Temple’s medical center is much rougher than in most hospitals - a higher percentage of gunshot victims, persons with advanced AIDs, heroin addicts, etc. At some city hospitals, the staff needs to worry about keeping the members of waring gangs separate from each other outside the emergency room.</p>
<p>Before the war started in Iraq, the US Army found their surgeons were not getting enough experience in treating gunshot victims - so they loaned them to Temple, where they got experience every night.</p>