Cost of Living

           I think the subculture represented in this essay was nurses. the author herself was a ER Tech at a Chicago hospitals's level 2 trauma center. the ethos sounded frustrated,overworked, and disgusted at the system in which she was involved in. the tone made more sense once she discussed her attempted suicide and the bills that arose from that "failure". the main focus was on the billing system in the health care system so i found the author a bit scatter brained which would make sense since she was a resident of "Fort Knox".