I think you all know how I feel about nurses now. If not, go back through the archives of this blog and read my essay “Nurse!” My patients and I have been supported throughout my career by some of the finest people on the planet, my oncology nurses. As a medical student, as an intern… Continue reading Nurses Talk
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NURSE!!
For Donna, Linda and Kelly When I was an Internal Medicine intern, my very first rotation was in the Coronary Care Unit, aka “the CCU.” Nothing could be more frightening to both the intern and the patient than an acute myocardial infarction the first week in July. It is a well-known fact that hospital mortality… Continue reading NURSE!!