Medicine was my path. I’d decided that early in life before I knew what a career in medicine really looked like. I…
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These events happened over 18 years ago. Some content has been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty. Searching for positive…
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I became a nurse at the age of 23. I was pregnant with my first son and dove into nursing headfirst, accepting…
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Matt was 40, my sister’s age. He was training for a marathon and trying to talk his many friends into joining. He…
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Florence Nightingale was among the first nurses who started wearing a nurse’s cap. The cap was derived by nuns and represented those…
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By the time my father’s metastatic prostate cancer was diagnosed, he was already experiencing symptoms of poor appetite and weight loss, which…
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Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets and Sesame Street, died at the age of 53. His diagnosis was toxic shock syndrome/streptococcus pneumonia…
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How can you work for 24 hours in a row? My friends outside of medicine ask me that often. What is it…