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A Tribute to My Circle Of Friends
Sunday, December 21st, 2008
This time of year is when we all think about friends and relatives. I spent yesterday in the presence of ten of the most amazing women a person could ever know. We are on the surface connected by having worked at difference hospitals in and around San Diego County, and found our way to each [...] -
What have I done to myself and how do I correct it
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
I hate to keep harping on the fact that I spent over three decades working the 1100 pm to 730 am shift. But after a week like this last one, I can’t help but wonder what the hell did I do to my body. I have spent the last few days with swollen joints and pains [...]
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Looking Back 3
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
I am now living in my sixth decade, retired and have time to look over my life. I had the dream to become a nurse and made it. I went to the Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing diploma program. I was strongly encouraged by my husband to go and get my BS in Nursing. A little thing called [...]
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Thirty-five years sleep deprived and I lived to tell about it
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Have you ever done something so stupid that later you had to just sit and shake your head? Well today after watching the new television show, The Doctors, which has condensed but often good medical subjects, I was left shaking my head and going Oh My God!
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Death by Emergency Room care or lack there of
Friday, September 26th, 2008
More and more stories are coming to light of the deaths of people being brought to emergency rooms where they die. Two of the latest cases have been patients in the ER who were there for long periods of time and nobody went to see about their needs. Both patients were psychiatric patients and both seemed to [...]