High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The profession of nursing has attracted a number of stereotypes. The image of a nurse as an "angel of mercy"—selfless, altruistic reliever of suffering—is based on the origin of nursing in the religious orders. In modern times, Florence Nightingale was the epitome of the nurse as an angel. In many wartime movie romances, the hero and the heroine are a doctor and nurse who meet and fall in love while saving lives on the battlefield; Lara and Dr. Zhivago from the novel and film Dr. Zhivago are one example. However, angels can fall from grace. Nurses such as Beverley Allitt or Kristen Gilbert, who have deliberately killed patients under their care, have frequently been referred to as "angels of death".

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