Head Nurse

How to make summer chili It's just like winter chili, but everything's fresh. Get the best vine-ripened tomatoes you can find. If yo...

You know that cartoon where the guy paddles out into the ocean, catches a wave, stands up and surfs....only to find a shark behind him, tak...

That way, I wouldn't have to keep repeating myself. Today, I had an encounter with an attending physician who'd never been on our un...

With the grace of God, an open window, and a good couple of fans, I managed to keep the fire alarm from going off. They'd come, the thre...

...but your IV pump is not talking to you. ...but I can't get you a bigger room for free. There are no bigger rooms. Put that money away...

Before I forget: the Fashion Edition To that nice nurse in the recovery room: Isn't it lovely to be young? Isn't it lovely to have a...

He's a nice man. Intensely religious, charming, friendly. He's got a wife and three kids at home, and an AVM that's taken up a s...

What a week. In honor of the week just past, I present: The 2005 Nursing Weirdness Awards. Best Line Used In The Context of Patient Care: ...

She has, since she is my mother, flattering things to say about this blog. Goodness me. At least she and I are agreed in our conspiracy to K...

I've just bought the newest Harry Potter. Oh, yeah? And what are *you* reading? Edited to add: Damn. Damn, man. Read the whole thing in ...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: "A policy does not exist to inconvenience you. There is a reason for it." That...

I got a very sweet piece of fanmail the other week, from a guy who says that my blog is the "blog by which other nursing blogs should b...

"I don't understand why you people are so incompetent." That's a bad way to begin any conversation. Unless, of course, it...

1. Why are the French considered cheese-eating surrender monkeys? They mobilized eight million some-odd people for World War I. Over a milli...

1. If you are a doctor, please sign the orders you write. What's easier--signing the orders while you write them, or signing them all wh...

Wish I knew whether friend Judy, OB/GYN extraordinaire, is okay. Damn.

You have a dream that Gregory House is leading a tour you're on through Cape Verde, and that you've forgotten your sun hat back at t...

Just a tip: If you plan to seize eight times in four hours, please seize at least once during the five hours that you're in the EEG lab....

No, I don't know why Netscape is inconsistent with Blogger's commenting. I can't even fix my own HTML without a handful of Xanax...

Fuck you, so-called "liberals". Let me lay two things out for all of you right here and now. 1. Abortion is not a "devisive...