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    • 16 Ratings
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    The Ghost in My Phone

    JANUARY 10, 2012 9:34AM

    By Elizabeth Blessing


    Topics: potassium, salt, caregiving, mamacita, family, nursing home, hospital, phone, ghosts

    • Editor's Pick
    • 37 Ratings
    • 1785 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    A tale of two ERs

    DECEMBER 11, 2011 12:04PM

    By Laura Deurmyer


    Topics: single-payer, insurance, hospital, health

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 1793 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    From Dorm Room to Hospital Room

    SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 3:46PM

    By Joan E. Kaufman


    Topics: open call, freshman orientation, hospital, flu, college, chaz bono, mono, viet nam war

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 1886 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Mom's Confession: The Secret Box

    SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 1:53PM

    By Joan E. Kaufman


    Topics: birth mother, mother, children, adoption, hospital, alcoholism, cancer, dying, death, family, my parents' secret lives, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2140 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Why we don't like having all the choices.

    JULY 20, 2011 12:41PM

    By Jowita Bydlowska


    Topics: why we don't like having all the choices, family, syndactylty, complex syndactyly, congenital disorders, canada heathcare, hospital, decisions, science, health

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 796 Views
    • 54 Comments
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    My First Death

    APRIL 17, 2011 7:33PM

    By Satori1


    Topics: health, memories, chf, pulmonary edema, hospital, nursing, death

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 3884 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    “Lady, You're In The Psychiatric Unit.”

    APRIL 6, 2011 12:01AM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: open call, mortifying disclosures, psych ward, radio city music hall, joan jett, st. vincent's hospital, health, medical, hospital, divorced, nyc, lower east side, true story, real life, no fun zones

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1692 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Grey slipper socks; or, Teen trauma in the ER

    MARCH 14, 2011 1:39PM

    By megwc


    Topics: drunk, teen, parenting, er, hospital, twins

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1412 Views
    • 40 Comments
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    The Hospital -- True Story for Halloween

    OCTOBER 27, 2010 9:10PM

    By Natalie K. Munden


    Topics: real scary stories, real scary story, open call, flowers, baby's breath, murderer, killer, soul, mom, family, health, pain, security, moon, exhaustion, patient, old woman, blood, nurse, scissors, assassin, the godfather part ii, the godfather, hernia, hospital, eclipse, halloween, scawey

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 9510 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    When Helping is an Ethical Quandary

    AUGUST 31, 2010 4:56AM

    By Iris Mónica Vargas


    Topics: interpreting, physicians, physician, medical team, healthcare, helping, ethics, nurses, health, facebook, providers, heathcare, hospital, medical school, doctors, drunks, iris monica vargas, open salon, medical interpreting

    • Editor's Pick
    • 35 Ratings
    • 2116 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    I’m Never the Sick One

    AUGUST 20, 2010 5:27PM

    By CoyoteOldStyle


    Topics: hospital, surgery, cholecystectomy, gall bladder, medical insurance, medicine, coyoteoldstyle, emergency medicine, george clooney wasn't there, health, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 29 Ratings
    • 4824 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    Nurse Brown Starts a Class War

    MARCH 30, 2010 5:41PM

    By Nurse PhD


    Topics: health care reform, nursing, hospital

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 1236 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    An Injured Dog Takes Himself to the Hospital Emergency Room

    MARCH 18, 2010 11:50AM

    By Catherine Forsythe


    Topics: emergency room, hospital, intelligence, injury, dog

    • Editor's Pick
    • 39 Ratings
    • 1716 Views
    • 45 Comments
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    Triage

    MARCH 9, 2010 12:54PM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: triage, emergency, assessment, medicine, first aid, hospital, priorities, life experience, health, primum non nocere

    • Editor's Pick
    • 45 Ratings
    • 2372 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    The Appearance of the Blue Man into my Life.

    SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 12:16PM

    By BuffyW


    Topics: health, family, environment, love, heartbreak, death is not for the weak of heart, hospital, disbelief, denial, dying, wheelchair, appearances of blue, so cold

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 894 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Reform opponents discovered decades old problem... last week

    AUGUST 24, 2009 7:37AM

    By Writing Raven


    Topics: glenn beck, hospital, alaska native, first nations, native americans, indian health service, health care reform

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1507 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Avoidance vs. Engagement in Intensive Care

    JULY 21, 2009 5:09PM

    By Nurse PhD


    Topics: trauma, intensive care unit, hospital, nurse, nursing, medicine, health care, coping skills

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 1424 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    The Roommate

    APRIL 21, 2009 3:59PM

    By Ocean Is Blue


    Topics: depression, mental, hospital, psychiatric

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 675 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Crippled and Crazy or Maintenance Time at the VA

    MARCH 14, 2009 6:18PM

    By poetTESS


    Topics: va, hospital, date, agent arm, doctors, cc, ptsd, mental, pain, veteran

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1903 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    My week in the hospital

    MARCH 1, 2009 3:04PM

    By Vac


    Topics: hospital, medical, doctor, comedy

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