The rot starts with the staff. If you have an RN that tolerates lazy aides and sloppy nursing practice, you have sick patients with bedsores. I worked in an ER and in ONE NIGHT, two patients cames in from the same nursing home with broken hips. One of the patients was non-verbal and the staff held onto her for hours…

Barbie isn't the only one playing dumb.

And "Thick As A Brick" is a Jethro Tull album.

Stop your patronizing doubling back and have the courage of your convictions, hypocrite. It seems to me you have a fetish yourself. No one here is as interested in her breasts as you are. Your pseudo intellectual commentary always contains a vulgar insult because you simply can't help yourself. "Dirty pillows" ring a…

Now you've exposed your opinion for what it really is- judgy venomous bullshit masquerading as socially aware commentary. Rather know a big boobied fetishist than a forked tongued bitch.

Hello! It's me! Stys are usually associated with staph. Maybe you're colonized. Go see your doc and get a culture and some antibiotics. Stys are a DRAG.

Mons veneris.

She's sour. The delight you get in noticing others' special beauty=the pleasure she gets dropping a turd in the punchbowl.

Read "No Evidence of Disease" in the blog Idle Words. Excellent essay.

Yes. And what about the tubing? That's not IV tubing!
I love butterflies! I can get blood out of a frigging fly with one, but I've never run fluids through one. Creepy picture.

It's totally relevant to his death. IV drug use is a crapshoot and the fact he died before being able to remove the needle illustrates this. It's bleak, it's ugly, but it is a fact. Even beloved talented people take that chance chipping.

Check out the price of buffalo yarn.

Me,too! I have long hair and I don't bother to remove it, I just keep knitting.

Thanks, William of Occam. Also, thanks for your invaluable razor. I've taught it to MANY and MANY a student.

They were doing CPR and bagging. As for a lawsuit? If she had a bleb, There was nothing EMS could have done. Sometimes shit happens. It traumatized the ambulance crew, and it was so highly unusual, none of the old timers had ever seen it before.

NO. They did it spontaneously, to show respect to the patient.

Gee, sorry...BUT! There were quite a few students there that night, both nursing and respiratory. I took them in to see the patient, because this was a real learning experience! They palpated and examined... And afterwords I suggested we thank the (dead) patient for the valuable learning experience. So all these…

I was working in the ER one night when an ambulance brought in a code. They had intubated and were bagging the patient, a middle aged woman. The intubation went wrong somehow, or she suffered a bleb (blow out in the lung) because the patient had inflated like a Macy's thanksgiving day balloon. The doc screamed "Stop…

It almost looks like corticosteroid face. Odd.