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    • Have you heard the one about the Tooth and the Chest Tube?

    Thursday, January 17th, 2008

    My patient had a front tooth that looked broken. There was just a tiny bit of white part sticking out of his gum. He told me how it got that way. He said that the last time he was in the hospital he had a chest tube placed and they had a problem getting it […]

    I Heart Pulmonolgists

    Sunday, March 11th, 2007

    Before I became a nurse I had a completely different view of doctors.
    Because of my stellar health (or more likely, lack of health insurance) I tended to avoid them. What little exposure I had of doctors came from waiting on them in an upscale restaurant. You’d have a group of docs, sitting around a table, […]

    I’m Still Here!

    Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

    It?s been awhile, I know.
    I have some excuses: High acuity. Long hours. A couple of vacations. I?ve been working hard, playing hard, and writing little.
    Add to that a crisis in conscience over patient privacy, as well as an existential crisis over why bother to blog in the first place.
    So onto the high […]