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The Secret Work Of Nurses

Recently, I admitted a patient in early labor and the first thing she asked me was when her doctor would be there. In my head, I laughed. I had not seen her doctor all day, even though I thought her doctor would make rounds in the morning.

Researchers Find Suicide Trigger In How We Make Decisions

Many people face major challenges or live with severe depression, but comparatively few commit suicide. So the question is: What is the trigger?

Yelps Hospital Reviews Are Getting Real Health Care Data

Yelp is probably best known for its restaurant reviews, but founders Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons were more concerned with how to find a good doctor online than where to grab a decent meal when they started the company in 2004.

Nurses To Surgeons, Cut The Music Please

An analysis of video footage shows that some operating theatre teams are negatively affected by background music, during surgery.

Female Viagra: Long Overdue Or Big Pharma Overkill?

Addyi — better known as "female Viagra" (though it's not a very accurate comparison) — is either a long-overdue acknowledgment that women's sexual health matters as much as men's, or the latest attempt to make women feel broken about sex.

How To Become A NICU Nurse

A neonatal nurse is a Registered Nurse (RN) that works in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and assesses, monitors, and cares for medically fragile newborns.

Why Salad Is So Overrated

As the world population grows, we have a pressing need to eat better and farm better, and those of us trying to figure out how to do those things have pointed at lots of different foods as problematic.

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