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"My Mother, the Plumber"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 06.11.2013 | Comedy
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Jerry Zezima

By Jerry Zezima As a man who has regularly plumbed the depths for column material but doesn't know how to plumb a sink to get rid of even worse mater...

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I Am a Nurse

Roberta Gately | Posted 05.03.2013 | Healthy Living
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Roberta Gately

That degree of commitment to patients happens not just during overwhelming newsworthy tragedies, but in every hospital every minute of the day. For whose life hasn't been touched by a nurse?

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Why Every Week Should Be Nurse Appreciation Week

Brian Secemsky, M.D. | Posted 10.20.2012 | Healthy Living
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Brian Secemsky, M.D.

Throughout history, the culture of medicine has revered the role of a physician as the core to patient care and medical recovery. Yet in my personal work experience, absolutely no care would be delivered without the critical role of a nurse.

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How A School Curriculum Can Lead To Health Jobs

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 08.01.2012 | Home
Read More: Oakland, Oakland High School, Nurse, California, Internship, Karen Seals, Public Health Academy, Job, Bathroom, Health, Public Health, Science Education, Healthcare, Home News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Photo Credit: DENISE TEJADA/Youth Radio A poster hangs on the wall in Karen Seals' classroom at Oakland High School in Oakland, Calif. She is co-dir...

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Doctor's Office Etiquette: Turn Dr. No Into Dr. Yes the Next Time You Visit a Medical Professional

Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 06.24.2012 | Home
Read More: Doctor, Appointments, Nurse, Insurance, Medical Professional, Medical History, Etiquette, Etiquette and Advice, Home News
Lisa Mirza Grotts

If you want good service before, during, and after your office visit, here are some tips for making them go as smoothly as possible.

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Bleach-Injecting Nurse Gets Life In Prison For Murdering 5

AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 04.03.2012 | Crime
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LUFKIN, Texas -- A former Texas nurse convicted of killing five dialysis patients by injecting them with bleach should spend the rest of her life in p...

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"Too Cuticle for Words"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.07.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Cocktail, Nurse, Columnist, Hydrogen Peroxide, Hangnail, Stamford Advocate, Humor, Band-Aid, Thanksgiving, Ginsu Knife, Obituary, Physician, America, Paronychia, Finger, Epsom Salt, Infection, Antibiotics, Doctor, Stamford, Bacitracin, Comedy News
Jerry Zezima

I can just imagine the lead of my obituary: "Jerry Zezima, a longtime newspaper columnist and certified public nuisance, died yesterday of complications from a hangnail. He was 58."

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NY Bill Would Require Bachelor's Degrees For RNs

AP | By MICHAEL GORMLEY and GEORGE M. WALSH | Posted 02.29.2012 | College
Read More: Nursing-Students, Nurse, College News

ALBANY, N.Y. -- New registered nurses would have to earn bachelor's degrees within 10 years to keep working in New York under a bill lawmakers are con...

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Angry Mother Threatens NHS With Legal Action Over Fake Nurse Probe

PA | Posted 11.07.2011 | Home
Read More: UK, Nurse, Gp, Cervical Smears, Pa, Kent, Fake Nurse, Medway, Legal, Nhs, Home News

A "livid" mother has vowed to take legal action after learning her son was one of hundreds of children who received jabs from a suspected un...

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"Kidney Stone II: The Sequel"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: X-Ray, Nurse, Stamford Advocate, Urologist, Humor, Hospital, Prescription, Anesthesiologist, Medical, Doctor, CAT Scan, Long Island, Stamford, Kidney Stones, Percocet, Comedy News
Jerry Zezima

In what I fear will become a series with more sequels than "Rocky," I had my second kidney stone.

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Astoria Characters: The Pilates Performer

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: New South Wales, Nurse, Astoria, Achilles Tendonitis, Chris Noth, Outback, Emma Bryant, Julliard, Meisner Technique, Pilates, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Robert Duvall, London, Nancy Ruhling, Equinox, Tony Randall, Down Under, Actress, Collective Theatre Company, Dance, Doctor, Italian, CD Player, New York News, Pekinese, Sheltie, Dubbo, Neighborhood Piltates NYC, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Emma Bryant is an actress. She's not waiting on tables. She's not waiting for the big break. So far, what Emma has made happen are a theater production company and an in-home Pilates studio.

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St. Vincent's Hospital (1849-2010)

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Nurse, Doctor-Patient Relationship, Patient, Doctor, New York City, Hospitals, St. Vincent?S Hospital, New York News
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD

Locking the entrance to the emergency room: there could not have been a more potent image to the final day of St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City.

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The Crime of Assisting a Suicide

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Nurse, Compassion & Choices, Barbara Coombs Lee, William Melchert-Dinkel, Assisted Suicide, Aid in Dying, Healthy Living News
Barbara Coombs Lee

Let's be clear. Our movement for end-of-life choice does not condone assisted suicide, and it never has.

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Sarah Dale, British Nurse, Fired After Bedding Cancer Patients' Husbands

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: England, Macmillan Cancer Support, Nurse, United Kingdom, Nhs, Great Britain, Sarah Dale, Macmillan, British Nurse, Nursing, World News

Sarah Dale, a 39-year-old nurse who specialized in dealing with cancer patients, has admitted to having relationships with two husbands of her patient...

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Men Dress As Female Nurses To Steal From Seniors

The Denver Post | Howard Pankratz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Senior Citizens, Nurse, Theft, Colorado Crime, Denver News

Nursing-home residents in the Denver area are being targeted by a ring of male thieves who pass themselves off as female nurses to gain entrance to se...

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Jaycee Lee Dugard: Nancy Garrido Worked As Nursing Aide

Contra Costa Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Jc, Nurse's Aide, Nurse, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Nancy Garrido, JC Lee Dugard, Phillip Grrido, Nursing Aide, Philip Garrido, Kidnapping, Home News

If she helped strip a young girl of her innocence and perpetrated a heinous, 18-year-long crime that has shocked the world, Nancy Garrido never showed...

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Denver Nurse Fired For Stealing Drugs Is 4th Since June

9News | Sara Gandy and Jace Larson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Drug Theft, Pain Killers, Nurse, Denver Nurse, Hospitals, Denver Hospitals, Hospital Theft, Denver News

DENVER - Denver Police say they have busted another nurse who stole powerful pain medication from an area hospital. Advertisement Denver Health Medic...

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Breast-Feeding May Lower Breast Cancer Risk

Yahoo! News | Amanda Gardner, HealthDay Reporter | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Nurse, Nursing, Health, Breast Cancer, Lower Cancer Risk, Lower Breast Cancer Risk, Breast-Feed, Breast-Feeding, Breast Cancer Risk, Healthy Living News

MONDAY, Aug. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Women who breast-feed their babies even for short periods of time may lower their risk of developing premenopausal...

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