FWIW, these babies would have likely just been transferred even if her local hospital hadn’t just closed. 32 week twins are complicated and most of the time unless there is a level IV NICU, they need to be transferred there. The difference with an open hospital is that there is someone on staff to assess and…

I'm quite certain they were disposable just like how administrators treat nurses. I can't even begin to believe that even this useless hospital could have possibly reused ppe. That is usually a no brainier.

I discovered Adrian Mole at 21 at my then boyfriend (now husband) parents house. I was spending the summer working in the UK and had a long commute everyday. I attacked all of those available in that series plus The Queen I. I would sit on public transport and being the bawdy American that I am, read her books and…

Working class? Things must have changed cause when I lived Seattle in the early 90's White Center was a wasteland of projects and gang violence. My sister and I both travelled abroad taking advantage of college exchange programs and working while there.

I'm so there with you. Diagnosed at 13 now 32. My parents refused to put me on meds but I failed out of one university so I got myself retested and some adders all at 24. 8 years later best depiction of my life!

Please do all the nurses of the world a favor and don't become a nurse for the "big money". You will hate it and everyone (your instructors, future coworkers, etc) that come in contact with you will know your motivation for being a nurse. You have to like people and be excepting of human weakness-especially the human…

Thank you for posting this! It is a huge risk and some people will take a smidgen of info like what is in this article and run with it.

I think you've gotten a lot of good info here from Jezzies. Here's my two cents. I'm a former L&D nurse and currently pregnant. I'm going the midwife route. I think an importnant distinction that most are not mentioning is that not all midwives have the same training. A CNM (certified nurse midwife)is an RN with…

Clearly you know everything about where I'm from. What precisely is a "rape culture"? And when did I compare Missoula to Boulder? Quite frankly, I would find that an insulting comparison for many reasons. Boulder has a higher rape numbers per capita. Although I'm sure you were saying that because Missoula wants to be…

Thank you! I can't think of a worse sample selection than Stockman's. My foreign friends used to go to Stockman's to play poker because the yokels that frequented that bar couldn't figure out that when everyone else at the table is speaking in mandarin you might be getting cheated. They did this night after night. Not…

I'm saddened by the fact that this article paints a picture of my hometowns culture by interviewing some seriously idiotic sounding college students. This whole situation is sad and fucked up but the main focus should be on the ineptitude of the justice system. I grew up in this 'rape capital' and my nearest and…

Thank you for this. A gun is essential in the back country for hiking, etc (a common pastime in this part of the world) and the implications that this constitutes violent leanings in the community is ridiculous. As I have previously stated the old boys club in Missoula is seriously f'd up and needs to change the…

Well, I'm terms of distress the amount experienced is the same.

I'm a native Missoulian. These allegations did not stun me in any way. As a teenager I was harassed by police and it was very common for the police to "confiscate" drugs without writing tickets. The police semed far more concearned with other pursuits besides policing. Drunk driving is rampant. The police will just…

Had it happen to me while working at a Catholic hospital. My boss also told me she didn't care that there were multiple people harassing me about it outside of work. The harassment involved me getting "extra" time off for no reason. Women are awesome to each other, especially when they think they should he others…

I went to a school run by Loretto sisters. I'm so glad your talking about these awesome women. I attended 8 years of Catholic school and I can honestly say that I never once heard any sort of judgement out of any of these sisters. They loved all. If only all Catholics were like this I wouldn't be a non-believer.

I gotta say sometimes I am curious what doctors learn in med school. I can't tell you the amount of residents that quote the labor curve as a reason to cut! I love being a nurse.....

I don't really think they can sell anything. Unless of course it's a research hospital than you have probably have agreed to let medical researchers use your data.

What the article is referring to is the "labor curve". There is lots of new evidence that it is not in any way relevant becuase the infomation is based on data from young white women in 1954. I also believe that all the labors were hospital births. The labor curve is so prevalent that all of the major L & D software…

I'm so sorry for your losses. Anniversaries of losses are rough times. It would be nice if our society viewed this like any other grief.