Head Nurse

Chef Boy and I got home this afternoon, and after I ate, I was so tired I went to bed and napped for a while. Christmas was lovely, unsullie...

A 2005 retrospective , done now because I expect to be too zonked from travelling on New Year's Eve to do it then, and because I'm a...

To the Best Boyfiend Ever (Chef Boy)... ...who took my antisocial, biting cat to the vet today to be kennelled for the Christmas holiday. Sh...

I ended up with the same nightmare-situation, I can't believe this is happening patient that I had over the weekend. Only with more tube...

I first had an inkling of trouble when the call bell rang and all we heard from the intercom was a scuffling noise. One of the physical ther...

I have now eaten five times and have not yorked (credit: Dr. V) once. I think tomorrow will be ducky. Just lovely. Tonight I actually ate ha...

Nurses face sexual harrassment Really? You don't say. Grunt Doc , DB's Medical Rants , and Code: The Web Socket have all taken stab...

Mostly because it's become predictable. Get up. Feel okay. Think, "I can go to work today. Good deal." Drink a little coffee. ...

Yesterday I called in sick. I called in sick because, for the first time in my life, I actually *lost conciousness* as a result of a combina...

One of the links at Grand Rounds this week has a focus on a suggested code of ethics for medbloggers and a list of questions we should all ...

A follow-on to yesterday's incoherence: Shakespeare's Sister takes a look at the Oslo post-abortion study from a statistical angle,...

This pissed me off. *deep breath* *several deep breaths* As I've mentioned before, I worked at an abortion clinic. I also was a volunte...

Today I went for breakfast at Rosa's. Rosa is a friend of mine who is mother to two charming and intelligent pre-teenage boys, wife to a...

The benefit of a liberal education The following scene is why everyone should get at least a couple of years of liberal arts education befor...

You know what's good? What's good is when you have enough empenada dough left over for one more empenada, but not enough filling, so...

I got my second "TEAM Player" T-shirt the other day (you don't remember the TEAM Playa post?), which seems to indicate that I...

Why is it so difficult to have certainty? I'm a big fan of Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael novels. For the uninitiated, Brother Cadfa...

1. Moxie Fruvous might be the best band to cook to. Better than Indigo Girls, better than Joni Mitchell, even, though I prefer Joni Mitchell...

For the first time in more than a year, I have had a bona fide bad day at work. It's rare to have a truly bad day. I mean, the day the m...

Warning: heavy accent ahead. Well, so am I. Even though we get a good lunch--and dinner, if we want it--for free, I still prefer to take my ...