Head Nurse

Really. You won't kill anybody. No, I mean it. Seriously. Just remember Jo's First Rule of Nursing: If you have to fuck with it, it...

It will come as no surprise to anybody that people can be stupid. I wonder why it still surprises me sometimes. The level of inexcusable, in...

Although I doubt Laura-Loo will pay, because she wasn't all that keen on the bet in the first place. We had a patient with symptoms of p...

Dr. Crane emailed me on Tuesday with a single line: "MRI looks good. No tumor." That was fucking amazing, guys. I wasn't aware...

I don't usually cry. I'm not a crier, unless you load me up with bourbon or give me a sick kitten. But today? The tornado in Joplin...

No grabbings so far this week. No screaming family members with threats of suing and retribution, no codes called for patients who get out o...

Today a patient grabbed and shook me as a terrier might shake a rat. Although I am, in my own opinion, prettier than most rats, and most ter...

...'Cause they conferrin' degrees on ERRYBODY up in here! We got Abilene Rob graduated, on time and in good standing, and he'd ...

The dogs that work with forces like Navy SEALs have their canine teeth (their four fangs) capped to prevent or repair the damage that can be...

Quick Animal update: Animal is two inches (roughly) long and some undetermined measurement the other way. Nobody has any idea what he is, bu...

I, too, am tired of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane. So today I get a call on one of the internal phones. These phone...

My ex-husband is selling the house we bought shortly after we were married. It's the house I grew up in; Mom and Dad sold it to us for s...

The PET scan went fine. Final results probably won't be back until tomorrow, but Dr. Crane says the look he took seems okay, except that...

Bad: Having a cat try to steal your roasted asparagus while you watch "Miss Congeniality". Worse: Having that cat succeed. NOM NOM...

Poor Max has had some broken sleep lately. Flashes (the smaller, stripey, smarter cat) has decided that he misses cuddling with a dog at nig...

I have an interview tomorrow morning with a very nice person who's writing an article for Reader's Digest that's to be called ...

There's a reason the saying is "Crazy as a pet raccoon." If you need a little breather from OCD raccoonosity, click here . I ...

Try this one instead. My oldest friend Rob (not Abilene Rob, the Other Rob) posted this to his FB page and I fell in love. Things here have ...