Head Nurse

Saturday: fly, wait, fly. Land. Customs. Purpose here? Tourist. What do you plan to do? Be a tourist. Customs official looks irritated. Driv...

I hate flying. Flying in an airplane is the quintessential combination of boredom and terror. Especially on two-hour flights, during which o...

Link o' the day goes to Ill Will Press, home of Foamy the Squirrel. clicky Then click on "Kevorkian Scarf." I swear I have see...

There is, near as I can tell, only one real downside to nursing as a profession. I'm not joking, people. The hours are long and the pay ...

You will notice new links to the right. I encourage you all to click on them all, in series, and marvel at how much better all of those folk...

I am tired, so very tired, of being sick. First the flu. Then, just as I thought my immune system would be somehow cranked and ready to deal...

Here's an object lesson for everybody: Before you leave the examining room, ask your doctor what she plans to prescribe for your conditi...

Harriet McBryde Johnson's piece on disability rights and debating Peter Singer. (Addendum: I have tried eight times now to get that lin...

Part One: I'm thinking of changing the tagline of this blog. It's gone from "Adventures of a dilettante in neuroscience: this w...

This is ridiculous. I thought, after dealing with The Real, Live Flu, that my immune system would be fully cranked and happy. I was wrong. T...

So my beloved sister mentions in an email that her boyfriend fell off a ladder. Not, as she put it, by slithering and grasping, but by becom...

I'm not normally a pessimistic person. Yesterday, though, I forgot to take my usual allergy medication. I ended up grumpy and snotty by ...

Came today from a neurology attending at work. "The best time I ever had scuba diving" he said, "was out in the kelp forests ...

You will need: About a pound of fresh asparagus, as thick as your thumb at the base Half a pound of whatever mushroom is cheapest this w...

Things you wouldn't know about me unless we worked together: 1. I wear thematic socks and sushi-print scrub tops on a regular basis....

The new line from management to the community is "Patient care is our first priority." The new line from management to us on th...

So we have this new management team at work. About a year and a half ago, there were massive layoffs at my facility. A consulting group ...

Nothing else makes that noise, save a lone raven with laryngitis, and there aren't any ravens here. With laryngitis or without. It...

Remember the patient I talked about with possible metastatic breast cancer to the brain? Well, it might be breast cancer. It might be som...

Tippecanoe and Nixon, too/Back with Barry's/Not with Lyndon, Ike, or Harry's/Back with Barry's Boys! (Thanks to the Chad Mit...