• Countdown to Publication Date: Four Weeks

    My book: Stories from the Tenth-Floor Clinic: A Nurse Practitioner Remembers is due to be published on November 6, Election Day. Now isn’t that a bummer? In spite of the competition for attention, I plan to get an announcement out a couple of days before via Blog, Facebook and Twitter. Maybe folks will enjoy a…

  • MAGGOT MAGIC – HOW MAGGOTS SAVED A LEG

    Lynn Dow posted this on her Blog: Stories from My Life as a Nurse. From time to time I plan to publish a post about an older nurse and his/her experiences that will add a richer appreciation of the evolution of our current practice. I hope you enjoy Lynn’s story.   Mr. T. came from…

  • Kirkus Review

    My book, Stories from the Tenth-Floor Clinic, received a positive Kirkus Review. A good review a best seller does not make. I have been busy, along with my publicist, lining up ways to promote the book. I find none of this easy. In retrospect, writing the book may have been the easy part. “In this…

  • The Physician Supports the Nurse 

    I am following a physician’s blog: Suneel Dhand. Reading his post for the first time, I had a gut feeling I would like this guy. I think he represents a new and steadily growing wave of physicians who are becoming more aware of the effects that good communication has on patient outcomes and improvement in…

  • A Day in the Emergency Room for a Nurse Who Loves Her Job

    Reblogged from Off the Charts, August 16, 2018 by Tarra Midgette, RN, is a nurse in an emergency department in North Carolina. I love this post and wanted to share it with you because Tarra Midgette so poignantly describes her inner thoughts and feelings as she goes about her not routine day in an ED. No…

  • New Love in Old Age

    I wanted to post an upbeat aspect of aging after my last one focused on death. While we can’t deny that the ultimate conclusion of aging is death, there are many diversions along the aging journey that turn out to be a surprise and delight. I, for example, would never have predicted that after I…