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• Saving the World from Terrorist Breastfeeding Toddlers

  An Atlanta, Georgia suburb is fighting one of the most pressing causes of our era — children who breastfeed past twenty-four months. Because breastfeeding... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2011 DEBATE, MEDICINE, SOCIETY

• A Poem for Victoria Day

  By a poet hostile to her reign. “Good, you were good, we say,” he writes. “You had no wit to be evil.” Probably worth remembering on the commemoration of her... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• How to Eat in the Most Obese County in the United States

  Let’s start with an appetizer:One thing you need to know before going to the Mississippi Delta is what a Kool-Aid pickle is — and how to make it.1. Pour pickle... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2011 DIARIES, DIET & WEIGHT, HEALTH, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Favourite Poems XXXVII

  The Apocalypse having been postponed yet again — well, I tend to think sometimes we’re living it anyway.The Second ComingTurning and turning in the widening gyr... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• More on Meera Bai, Faith and Nursing

  I realized after I wrote yesterday about Meera Bai and her work at Insite, the Vancouver safe drug injection site, that she has both a blog called Strong Hands... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• On the Dying Art of the Bed Bath

  Joni Watson (@joniwatson) explains why bed baths are important:I am a fan of cleanliness, but I’d rather not bathe a complete stranger (or acquaintances for tha... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Defending Insite from a Faith Perspective

  A nurse offers a defence of Insite, the safe drug injection clinic operating in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. What I find interesting is that contrary to... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Margaret Wente is Wrong on Substance Abuse

  Margaret Wente opines on drug addiction based on some book she read:Advocates for the disease model of addiction say their arguments are evidence-based, and tha... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Observations and Assessments

  

  Notions to small for a blog post, all in one place.Pomodoro is not just Italian for tomato. It’s actually an effective time-management technique. Like (for... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Favourite Poems XXXVI

  Roald Dahl’s poem is probably not suitable for children, despite the deceptive, rollicking verse; hell, it’s hardly suitable for adults either, but still, it’s... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Medication Error Leads to Suicide

  A nurse commits suicide:Kimberly Hiatt, 50, a longtime critical-care nurse at [Seattle Children's Hospital], took her own life April 3. Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2011 MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• When Nurses Write About Physician Bullies, Don’t Shoot the Messenger

  Theresa Brown has taken some heat for the op-ed she wrote for the New York Times last Sunday. When she wrote about her experiences being bullied by a physician... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gone Gardening, and Theresa Brown Gets Bullied

  Spring has finally made a tentative appearance, so I’m outside communing with nature today.A couple of thoughts to consider: First, is there a connection betwee... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2011 MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Scaredy-Scared

  What scares me as an emergency nurse?These do not scare me: cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarct, major multiple-system trauma, abdominal aortic aneurysms,... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Shock and Awe Advertising, Part 3

  

  So why do dogs and cats get more donations than our fellow humans anyway? This begs the larger question of why some causes more socially acceptable — by this I... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2011 CHARITY, DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Favourite Poems XXXV

  Dover BeachThe sea is calm to-night, The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2011 DIARIES

• End of Life Care and Moral Distress

  Wanderer (@Wanderer_RN) over at Lost on the Floor is pretty well on the mark writing on quality of life at the end of life:Case in point…a 90-something year... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Nursing Research Challenge: “Intuition in Emergency Nursing: a Phenomenological...

  One of an ongoing series, prompted by Rob Fraser’s (@rdjfraser) Nursing Research Challenge, which I encourage my colleagues to join. Admittedly I have been a bi... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Observations and Assessments

  

  Notions too small for a blog post, all in one place.Stormy weather. Some of you probably noticed a slight lack of presence here the last couple of days. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Do Nurses Have the Courage to Stop Bullies?

  

  Hands up, nurse colleagues, if you recognize this story: bright young new grad lands dream job in sophisticated critical care unit by dint of hard work,... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2011 DIARIES, MEDICINE