Head Nurse

I was really, really not wanting to put too much mental effort out tonight; two days straight of The Great Influenza and starting Pinker...

So, um, you know when you get a scary troll on your blog? And you go and enable the "moderate comments" dealie on the blog templat...

Suggested by Les, brilliant correspondent. Blogger's bug won't allow people to post on the first post on the page, so I'm trying...

Of course, I'll pay for it starting tomorrow. I had two days off this week and three last week and actually put them to good use. Chef B...

I drove past the old house today. It's the house I grew up in; the one the 'Rents sold to us shortly after we got married. I hadn...

Blogger has a bug which disallows comments on the newest post on every page, unless you're using some combination of IE and luck which I...

Nota bene: there are no boobs in this post. The title line is merely an attention-getting device. A nice guy came in a couple weeks ago with...

Because I have a bottle of Becker Vineyards' Viognier here, and a slab of salmon, and a little miniature Dachshund across town that woul...

She's a nice woman; a little thin for her height, but solid muscle and bone. She had a brain tumor in an odd spot; although we managed t...

Thank you, V.S. Ramachandran. This book, Phantoms in the Mind , is one of those books you never knew you needed--badly--until it came along....

It's ironic, really. Just when I feel like I've hit a slump, writing-wise, and that I don't have much new to say, a very nice pe...

I like the symmetry of that number. I haven't worked in days; all I've got to tell you is old gossip from the unit. Like, it must re...

The good news is that one of my patients whom I thought wouldn't live last weekend is now sitting up and talking. Not making a lot of se...

Because I don't believe in trolls. I know they exist, but I prefer to stick my fingers in my ears and sing la la la la until they go awa...

That was the ultimate line of an email I got this weekend, from somebody who'd read the blog but hadn't commented. The gripe the cor...

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(Inspired by the PGY2 resident who now refers to me as "Bugaloo", a nickname I find simultaneously charming and disturbing.) I am ...

The past week at work has been dull. Dull is good. Status Migraine Guy is back, but he's calm and his pain is controlled. I don't kn...

...because I really can't call it cooking. Warning: girly foof ahead. The local Quick-ee-Mart had a sale on various frozen entrees this ...

Mom and Dad bought me a set of barrister bookshelves for my birthday. They arrived last week, but I only managed to bribe Chef Boy into help...