Florid Nightingale

reports from some frontier
April 03, 2012 11:32AM
“Good heavens! Such sights! Thanks for sharing.”
About: Return to Molé National Park
April 03, 2012 11:30AM
“Thanks for reading, Patrick. I am happy to say that things have greatly improved in pain management and ICU care. Back then, we also thought it was goo…”
About: Tragic Humor in the ICU
April 01, 2012 03:02PM
“You are so right, Evan. A recent study showed average faculty raises were 1.9% nationwide. Our executives got 10% bonuses last December (which are no…”
About: Surrounded by Strange Priorities
April 01, 2012 02:57PM
“You are absolutely right, Evan Levine. I do not advise anyone to stop taking a drug on the basis of a blog post either. Although I think most people a…”
About: Naive, Uninformed, and Wholly Unrealistic
April 01, 2012 02:06PM
“Research is overvalued and teaching undervalued where I am, too. Practice (which I realize is not an option for all disciplines) is similarly undervalu…”
About: The War on Teaching Wages On in Higher Ed
April 01, 2012 01:40PM
“Evan, please fix the typos - more than one. But - I take the opposite stance on statins in a recent post (Naive, Uninformed, and Wholly Unrealistic). T…”
About: Two Things Most People Don't Know About Statin Drugs
March 31, 2012 10:06PM
“Amen. _r_ - Teresa”
About: An open letter to people on the fence about Obamacare
March 31, 2012 11:03AM
“You nailed it with the cat description! A few remarks: What the other person said about your poetry? Throw that away; no reason to carry the trash aro…”
About: Poetry, cats, politics, health, personal growth
March 29, 2012 03:07PM
“Nicely done. Thanks.”
About: So Long Earl (Bluegrass Legend Dead at 88)
March 20, 2012 08:29PM
“I love that same Portland! I am IN love with the Armorys, in cities all over, that are being converted into places for the arts. That's what I call ju…”
About: The Portland I want to live in
March 03, 2012 01:57PM
“"So why plan at all, why not just drift through this life sippin' the nectar and living easy? " I'm so sorry, Julie, that that is not one of t…”
About: eh? dunno what the heck this is
February 26, 2012 04:14PM
“I could not agree more. Conflict of interest abounds in medicine, despite efforts to control it in recent years. And do not get me started on the trad…”
About: The Interview The Today Show Did Not Want To Televise
February 25, 2012 11:24PM
“Powerful stuff. If only.”
About: The Vampire of the Caribbean
February 25, 2012 11:08PM
“A sweet remembrance, Patrick. We should all be so lucky to have someone remember us so eloquently.”
About: An extraordinary woman
September 28, 2011 09:22PM
“That gives you twelve years to enjoy engineered meat, Patrick! Lucky you.”
About: 2024
September 27, 2011 08:39PM
“Very meaningful post. I have strong feelings about the hospitals where I have worked, especially the one that was torn down. Rated.”
About: The Old Hospital
September 25, 2011 06:00PM
“Yeah. My breasts are the seat of my confidence, too. Well, okay, also "feminine products."”
About: Losing a Few Cup Sizes; Gaining New Confidence
September 25, 2011 05:54PM
“Atheism is fine, but please do not treat it as the most righteous of choices. That makes you sound like some kind of religious nut.”
About: I Am Not An Abunnyist
September 16, 2011 01:26PM
“Beth, while working out yesterday I noticed that the conversation between two women - probably in their twenties, maybe early thirties - on the treadm…”
About: Cell Phone Etiquette for Morons
September 13, 2011 07:39PM
“Funny that there's an article on the front page about inadvertent sexist remarks when yours contains the inadvertently (I assume) sexist #7. Do you t…”
About: Cell Phone Etiquette for Morons
June 05, 2011 05:14PM
“Is art defined by its medium, content, or something else (intention of the artist)? None alone suffices; maybe someone will devise a logistic regress…”
About: What Is Art?
June 05, 2011 05:07PM
“Say more about #4, would you? I'm not sure I understand WHICH industry you mean. Thanks for writing. We need to hear from the voices that are too ofte…”
About: Cracked: '5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor'
April 07, 2011 10:00AM
“Thanks for commenting, Morethanamom. No, I don't know what happened to him. One of the ironies of nursing practice in intensive care is that we work ha…”
About: Joey on the Tightrope
April 02, 2011 11:00PM
“Why does “open and honest" remind me so much of "fair and balanced"? Good piece. Rated.”
About: The Koch brothers are getting nervous
March 25, 2011 09:42PM
“I just love owner Jon Basso's remark from your link to the news story about "naughty nurses": "If anything, I think it glorifies nurses…”
About: Big surprise: Heart Attack Grill spokesman dies at 29
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