Head Nurse

I'm waiting for a call back from the insurance peeps. They called earlier regarding my appeal, I called 'em back, got voice mail, an...

This past week, I was stroke coordinator, advisor to the publications department, advisor to the computer guys who are installing new monito...

First you go to the local butcher and ask for a pound of ground pork, the leanest possible, run through the grinder four times. No more, no ...

1. Standing around on rounds with the chairman of the department and the United Nations of Neurology (aka the residents), trying to figure o...

Nobody died over the last four days: good. TPA given to two people who needed it: good. TPA given to one person who has a factitious/psychol...

Well, we're moved. We have a spandy clean new unit with seven (!!!) beds, monitors, a central monitoring station, computers that work, (...

1. While cancer might be simultaneously boring and terrifying, it beats waiting for the surveillance scans. There's an up-and-down rhyth...

(Bruce Cockburn, Lou Reed, and Roseanne Cash) "...and guess what? I felt the baby kick today." Merry Christmas, y'all.

A Young Nurse asked Auntie Jo for advice this week. Poor, deluded Young Nurse. Our correspondent asked this: "What do I do when a docto...

A coworker of mine reminded me recently that 2012 will mark my tenth year at Sunnydale General (Healthcare for the Hellmouth). Reader's ...

Teddy Bear the Fretful Porpentine is from My Home Town! I might have to ask to meet him (and bring him erk-erk-eeenh-eeenh-gitback! noms) ne...

I saw Dr. Elf today for the last time until April. The New Bug is performing beautifully; I'm even able to lie on my stomach for a massa...

This is. . .amazing. Real posts a bit later, after I get back from buying new blades for my reciprocating saw.

I present the Strontium-90 of cute animal videos. This is not a title I bestow lightly. Until today, the best-ever cute animal video was tha...

The scans were clear. I have a flowery turbinate that bears watching, but that apparently can be a normal variation. Next flip-out comes in ...

Call out the Marines! Get the helicopters going! Phone the Prezznit! Or, at least, call the security guys and have them come and scratch the...

No, I will not hide you from the cops who have come to investigate your lousy ass for leaving the scene of an accident in which you hit a pe...