Tangential Thoughts on a Thursday

Another Great Moment In Medicine:

All the nurses go to their rooms and every resident in the world gets a good night's sleep!

Sorry, nursing colleagues.

I couldn't resist.

It was my first thought when I saw the photo!

This is actually a Parke Davis ad, one of a series.

It's a medieval hospital.

Doesn't it seem like a lot of wasted space in the center there? How did they heat the thing?

The nurse up front looks like someone just told her she had to do mandatory overtime.

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There are some new links in town! Check out an new blog by ER physician Charity Doc , or soon-to-be Student Nurse Jack and Misadventurous Melissa who is a nurse colleague in southern CA. I've also discovered Krista at Picklecakes , also a nurse and not afraid to tell it like it is. I've also added to my patient blog roll call recently with Patricia at The Multiple Sclerosis Companion.

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I sure would love to hear the whole story about why Rich at Geek Nurse had to shut down his blog.

I was sorry to see that.

I have not worked in an ICU since 1989 and I was learning a lot from him, especially since I've never worked a Pedi ICU.

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I love the job I have now and I wonder what I would do if given the ultimatum to shut down Emergiblog.

I know!

I'd quit and put up an online tip jar!

I could get free care in the ER!

I'd have to find a place for the homeless with wireless internet connection, a place to charge up my iPod, my cell phone, my coffee pot and have access to American Idol, BBC America and the Cartoon Network, but hey! All in the name of free speech!

In all seriousness, we miss you, Rich. Let us know "where" you are. You can't keep a good nurse down. Especially in the blogosphere.

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Now that life has settled back into it's normal routine after family health issues and lots of extra shifts, it sure is nice to catch up on all the posts I missed. I'm only a third of the way through my list of blogs (see sidebar). At least with my "live bookmark" feature on Firefox I can see who has new posts and who doesn't.

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I've decided to give Blogger one more chance.

I've checked out Typepad and I actually "own" the "www.emergiblog.com" domain name over at enom.com, I just haven't had the time to actually sit down and work with it.

I'm kind of attached to this format and changing designs is like getting a plastic surgery make-over. It would still be me but it wouldn't "look" like me.

But one more major breakdown that affects this blog and I will become so good at html my new site will look like the Taj Mahal.

Blogger may be free, but so is half the care I give in the ER. I still have to do my best.

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For one shining moment, I was a Large Mammal over at the ttlb ecosystem. Now I am a Maurauding Marsupial again. Sigh. How can that be when my Techorati score is up?

Yes, I pay attention to little things like ttlb and Site Meter.

Oh well. At least having a marsupial pouch is handy for my trauma scissors....