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The Discrimination Against Nurse Practitioners Must Stop

I have been a neonatologist for 30-plus years. Throughout my career, nurses and neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs) have guided me, assisted me and comforted me through difficult patient care issues that arose. Even more importantly, they allowed me to leave the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) without worrying about how my patients were being taken care of.

‘Horns’ Are Growing On Young People’s Skulls. Phone Use Is To Blame.

Mobile technology has transformed the way we live — how we read, work, communicate, shop and date. But we already know this. What we have not yet grasped is the way the tiny machines in front of us are remolding our skeletons, possibly altering not just the behaviors we exhibit but the bodies we inhabit.

A Love-Hate Relationship With Nursing

If you went to go to a museum in New York City and saw a live heart encased in glass, still pumping and pulsating — it would be my heart, shredded into a thousand pieces all in disarray. But it still would be pulsating. This describes my life as a nurse.

The Worst Patients in the World

Americans are hypochondriacs, yet we skip our checkups. We demand drugs we don’t need, and fail to take the ones we do. No wonder the U.S. leads the world in health spending.

When Medical Science Becomes Fake News

Every week there is another health pronouncement saying what is now good for you and what is going to kill you. Unfortunately, the “what” is often interchangeable — what was supposed to kill you last week is now suddenly good for you or vice versa.

Wearing Shoes Indoors: How Many Germs Are We Talking, Exactly?

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who keep their shoes on at home and those who scream internally at the very thought. If you don’t take your shoes off indoors, you might just not see the need. Germs are everywhere, right?

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