November 2011
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Free Online Medical Picture Challenges from New... →
cranquis:
Oooh, lots (>300) of fun medical pictures (patient photos, radiology images, etc) to test your diagnostic skills (or your guessing skills, if applicable). And a nice little explanation with the correct answer too. Enjoy!
(Thanks to Constant Reader dan-yellie for the hookup!)
October 2011
21 posts
I Am a Male Nurse →
This is a good read and let me add. I LOVE my male nurse friends and colleagues. They’re invaluable for turning help with some of our larger patients, they’re very entertaining, some of the best nurses I know are men and I just love working with them. In the ICU I work in we have a lot of male nurses. I think men like the intensity of ICU, ED, OR or Flight Team. Anyway I’m just...
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Google →
mystrongmedicine:
Interesting article
Post traumatic stress in critical care nurses: http://bit.ly/p8k1rt
(Shared Via Google Reader)
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Top 9 Health Systems In The World →
nateosit:
US obviously doesn’t make the cut…
Never will. A lot of Americans don’t have a healthy lifestyle. They eat too much and the quality of their diet is BAD compared to the countries on the list. Add to that they don’t exercise enough. When they get sick they visit their doctors who prescribes pills when the correct treatment should be a lifestyle change. It still...
Jackson witness details Murray's propofol errors →
cranquis:
Like I said before: Dr. Conrad Murray really “sold” his reputation and credibility away, and didn’t maintain even the appearance of a defensible “doctor-patient” relationship. (Excellent expert-witness testimony by the propofol expert, by the way!)
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Nursing salary preview: What can RNs expect in... →
mystrongmedicine:
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Following up on the Nursing salary projections for 2011, which contained an overview of the 2010 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, here is a preview of how things might stack up in 2012.
Below are highlights of some current trends in the nursing profession that will help give you an idea of where salaries for nurses are headed in the new year.
It’s...
Dr. Cranquis' Mumbled Gripes: Behind the Medic:... →
cranquis:
incorruptible replied to your post: Bad and Worse: No more camping for you, ma’am.
A completely serious question: how do you deal with people that dense?
Excellent question! Every med student/nursing student/healthcare-profession-student soon learns that a significant portion of…
LOL there’s no cure for STUPID ^_^
