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Even as the labor market has softened, healthcare jobs have stayed plentiful: People spend on healthcare in good times and bad, and thus far, the ability to change bedpans and insert IVs hasn’t been automated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

"To be told the NHS no longer provides you with bedpans, and have to go to Amazon to have one delivered - that's not right," she said.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

Ricky, 46, says he was routinely cursed and yelled at by an elderly client and has never been paid as much as minimum wage for changing bedpans and diapers, among other chores.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2023

She was a nurse’s aide, changing bedpans and rolling patients.

From Washington Post • May 17, 2022

She had to be his nurse, washing him with a sponge, changing his bandages, removing his bedpans.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende