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Our jobs as nurses can take a lot out of a person. We are subject to some of the most intimate and stressful moments of a person's life. But it's not always serious and I know I've had many laughs with coworkers.

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Ah, we made it into 2008 without any casualties. In a pharmacy, that means that none of the staff were thrown F-bombs.

One of the toughest things I have had to deal with as a cardiac recovery patient is the studies dealing with medication and implantable devices.

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It's one of those days â€" you're not feeling well, but you're not deathly ill. If you have to, you can make it out of bed and in to work.

Have "Mr." and "Mrs." gone out of style? Are they gone the way of the dinosaur?

Following my heart attack in 2006, I knew I did not heed one of the warnings of one of my cardiologists.

How many nurses have heard "You could/should have been a doctor" from someone? It could have been said by a well-meaning family member or a grateful patient, but no matter where it comes from, the meaning is the same: You could have done better.

Health spending in the United States exceeded two trillion dollars in 2006 and will increase substantially for 2007. That is a hell of a lot of money, my friends.

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A major facet of a person's recovery from a heart attack involves change in diet. High-fat fast foods, much red meat and other...

There are very few occupations that do not have intrinsic hazards. In an article in The New York Times recently, I read about a...

A new year usually brings reflections of the years past and questions about the year(s) to come. At the pace of change in healthcare, it's not hard to see the many...

This week Las Vegas hosted the annual Consumer Electronics Show. While most of the wizardry of the gadgets on the show...

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It happened the morning of July 20, 2006. I got up at my usual 7:15 a.m., kissed my wife good-bye, checked my calendar...

Welcome to Nurses' Notes. I'm thrilled to be the blogger for Nurses' Notes and I hope to make it a fun place to visit.

Hello and welcome to the first post of MDNG's MoBlog Mobile Weblog. As part of MDNG's new website, MoBlog will serve...

Doctors, like other professionals, often find themselves wading through page after page of completely irrelevant search results, Web pages, and other content and data as they search for accurate...

By some estimates, two-thirds of patients occasionally miss a doctor appointment and fail to notify the physician's office.

A common misperception exists about monumental changes and how they come about. Most think that significant and permanent change occurs as a result of a large cataclysmic event that leaves the...

The conversation started innocently enough; a member of Sermo--a wonderful doctors-only website--posed the question, "do kids still play doctor?" The conversation that followed was full...

7 Questions with... Jim Stickley, CTO, TraceSecurity.

Microsoft has launched their free (ad-supported) online health portal, HealthVault.