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    "Community"/ Part I: Nothing to Begin With

    NOVEMBER 28, 2010 9:52AM

    By prismguard


    Topics: stress test, treadmill, lewis carroll, red queen, through the lookking glass, existentialism, physical existence, metaphysics, act of dying, consciousness, togetherness, meaning, breathing, icu, impotence, humiliation, endless present, soul, brain tumor, dying alone, mortality, and so it goes, murder/autopsy prologue, life force, erection, rejection of death, conscience, church community, coffee hour, dionysus, nihilism, heart specialist

    • 56 Ratings
    • 1264 Views
    • 70 Comments
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    I See You As an Old Man

    OCTOBER 5, 2010 6:41AM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: i see you, icu, is there golf imagery? i guess, aging, health, medicine, poetry

    • 20 Ratings
    • 1315 Views
    • 43 Comments
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    My Twenty-Five Twenty-Five

    SEPTEMBER 25, 2010 7:05AM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: icu, more useless trivia, open+call, mark r trost

    • 11 Ratings
    • 726 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    The Great White Hunter

    SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 8:27AM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: critical care nursing, nursing, icu, mayo clinic, medicine

    • 1 Ratings
    • 233 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Artificial Sweetener and Total Lack of Cooperation

    AUGUST 22, 2010 8:02PM

    By geezerchick


    Topics: health, getting better, icu, evil night nurse. jello, artificial sweetener

    • 28 Ratings
    • 1000 Views
    • 31 Comments
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    A Hospital Visitors Guide to Medical Acronyms

    AUGUST 20, 2010 2:32PM

    By D Art


    Topics: unos, pca, tips, inr, meld score, chop, hup, emhs, npo, ffp, icu, er

    • 2 Ratings
    • 367 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    The 2nd One, Part II, Pneumonia

    JULY 7, 2010 11:48PM

    By Marty'sHusband


    Topics: allergies, icu, pneumonia, hospital, stroke

    • Editor's Pick
    • 27 Ratings
    • 2502 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    The Great White Hunter

    MAY 6, 2010 9:39AM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: lawrence riordan, larry riordan, julie friedline johnson, dr. michael kendrick, whipple surgery, pancreatic cancer, rehabilitation, head injury, icu, nursing, medicine, mayo clinic, gregg carlson, national nurses day

    • 35 Ratings
    • 2407 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Tears

    JANUARY 29, 2010 10:04PM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: eyes are the windows of the soul, here comes the rain again, waterfall, tears, crying, life and death, icu

    • Editor's Pick
    • 44 Ratings
    • 4765 Views
    • 57 Comments
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    do not resuscitate

    JANUARY 29, 2010 9:49AM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: family, family dynamics, power of attorney for health care, life and death decisions, extraordinary measures, natural death, death and dying, health, medicine, hospitals, intensive care, icu, advance directives, code status, dnr, do not resuscitate

    • 4 Ratings
    • 899 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    My Mother Died A Year Ago Today

    OCTOBER 5, 2009 8:21PM

    By ImeanReally


    Topics: death, moms, son, death of a mother, crying, tears, icu

    • 18 Ratings
    • 1363 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Bop-pa

    AUGUST 6, 2009 1:57AM

    By Jon Henner


    Topics: death, games, hellspawn, icu, regret, hope, all that

    • 15 Ratings
    • 1062 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    johnny, johnny, johnny, whoops, johnny, johnny

    FEBRUARY 12, 2009 10:20PM

    By Theodora L'Engle Knight


    Topics: tri-tip, motorcycles, hell's angels, accidents, icu, staples. birthday, drunk

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