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Abnormal posturing made overly simple by request!

I forgot who asked for this, but it's a good topic for Auntie Jo's Occasional Ridiculously Oversimplified Take on Neuroscience. This...
If you've not yet listened to RadioLab's broadcast "Telltale Hearts," you should.

It has (you can find it here ) not only a great story about a heart, but an appreciation of Oliver Sacks by Robert Krulwich. Dr. Sacks has l...
Cancery McCancersons. Don't like it? Click back.

I had the first of the five-year hurdles last week: I saw my dentist. Me and my surgical deficit, we went in to the same office and sat in t...
Well. A whole lot just happened all at once.

*whew* To recap: I work in a critical-care unit that's embedded on a floor that is not critical-care. My immediate managers, the Assista...
How I learned to stop worrying and stopped giving a shit--and became a better nurse.

It's the classic nursing moment: after you've spent uncounted minutes putting a gorgeously neat, clean dressing on a wound, a doctor...
If I see one more preachy Facebook post about air conditioning. . . .

Look: I know air conditioning costs money. I know it's bad for the environment, it makes people fat, it destroys the great plan that the...
This is what I don't get.

Dr. Vizzini was rounding today with his residents and said, apropos of a patient, "It's all about that bass/'Bout that bass/No ...
Guise? Guise? I need advice.

All drama, all joking, all silliness aside: I need srs advice. Keith did two things in the past week that were so boneheaded, so arrogant, s...
Yeah. . . .no. I'm having some thoughts about BSNs.

I'm an ADN-prepared nurse. Those of you who've been here for a while know that I often refer to those two years (three, actually, co...
Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy,

. . .but I have the sudden urge to smack you over and over and over with a shovel across the back of the head, so could you sit down? Thanks...

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