Head Nurse

Because Indian nurses will, once they find out you like Indian food, start bringing you little tasty tidbits to try, including these crispy ...

It's a pygmy jerboa, but it looks like something out of The Phantom Tollbooth .

OMG PONIES!!! There's this design blog called Little Green Notebook . I'm not totally wild about some of her style choices, particul...

"It's a mouse." "Dude. You sure that's a mouse?" "Yep. It's a mouse. Look at the way it's moving....

"Lortab. I can't imagine why anybody would choose Lortab." "Maybe it was the only thing he had around." "Still....

Abilene Rob's head is exploding just about... ... ...now.

If you have a patient without IV access and with a blood glucose of twelve, who is having a prolonged seizure because of that hypoglycemia, ...

Than coming home after work on a hot day with a fresh six-pack and taking off all your clothes and putting on a bathrobe. Unless it's wa...

Can't do much better than this.

It's the solstice. This is always sort of a sad day for me, as it marks the time when the days begin to get shorter. There are plenty of...

1. A six-foot-three, two-hundred-twenty-pound patient with a subarachnoid hemorrhage decided to get all dicey on my ass while I was drawing ...

From the mailbag: Dear Auntie Jo, I work in a hospital that depends on donations for a large part of its funding. Every once in a while, we ...

I have a blood draw coming up in the next week. Normally, I have veins you could hit with a harpoon from a door three blocks down. This, how...

She was three years older than me. She has two kids, one in his twenties and one just a teenager. She had breast cancer. It was a rare, awfu...

Six neurologists. One from Romania, one from Puerto Rico. Two from Africa (Ethiopia and Ghana). Two from the U.S. All of them standing in th...

....who has an unfortunate fondness for refurbing El Caminos.

I mean "you people with chronic pain." Srsly? You rock. I ask this because I have what started as a cold and is turning into a sin...

I was thinking about this last night, as I was cooking hashbrowns to go with my breakfast-for-dinner entree of Boca Burger and Muenster omel...

The good doc posted a story about a patient getting hit over the head with a poodle. So, in honor of Grumpy, and to show that weird shit re...

(The return of the grouchy nurse vent!) Nurses do not have "cred". This "cred" of which you speak can be found in the IC...