I’ve seen things, and I’ve done things…

  I wouldn’t recommend it. Honestly, I don’t think anyone would. Everyone knows what PTSD is. It inundates the news, and honestly, not only does it get a little heavy on how overused it is, but how many people claim to have PTSD. It does not say that PTSD in a person does not exist, …

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It did more harm than you think…

When I wrote a piece earlier this week, Igor cautioned me not to write angry. When I wrote the piece yesterday about bullying, I tried to write it with cold, clinical calculation to make a point. Then I started to think about it and realized I never spoke to the damage in a personal sense …

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Nurses eat their young…

There is nothing worse than a bully, except dealing with one. Yet that is what a good number of professional nurses must put up daily to the point where nurses have committed suicide. Rhian Collins, who worked a hospital in Wales, hanged herself in her home in March of last year. The investigation concluded that …

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The most wonderful time of the year?

From the drafty hospital home to my drafty castle and face first into my coffin…Oy the crick in my neck. Holidays are tough in the hospital. If there is a time that anyone wants to be there less, I can’t think of it. Last night, I was called to evaluate a depressed/suicidal person. All the …

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