Thanksgiving
So I'm working Thanksgiving. That's fine, because I'm thankful I have a job, and one that wants to give me hours rather than take them away. I brought my wife's excellent pumpkin crumb cake, except what with the shortage of canned pumpkin (are we in a war or something?), she made it with fresh sweet potatoes—which I think is even better. With homemade whipped cream. I also brought homemade guacamole, pico de gallo salsa, and roasted red pepper hummus from the local ethnic grocery. There's a free Thanksgiving meal in the cafeteria. AND my wife is going to bring me Thanksgiving from home. I'm already full just from the dips and cake. I feel a nursing diagnosis coming on!

Dads Prefer Breastfeeding
A woman on a breastfeeding forum my wife's a member of told her husband to make a pie chart of why he prefers breastfeeding over formula feeding. Apparently he goes on and on about how great breastfeeding is. So here's what he came up with: I pretty much concur. Although I'd probably add that breastmilk is free, and formula is expensive. I'd also make the "good for baby" section bigger, or even divide it up between benefits. I

Why I Like Open ICUs
Recently I was visiting someone in the ICU of another hospital. There were four of us, and the guard informed us that only two at a time could visit. For various reasons (well, the other people were nervous, and it was late in the evening) everyone followed me in. There were already three visitors in the room, so that brought the grand total up to an unforgivable seven. A nurse at the desk, the only one around, reading a magazine, muttered something about how many people there

Chest Hair and Scrubs
say you're in the hospital and a nurse comes in to take your vitals. say it's a male nurse. say he's totally got chest hair sticking out the v-neck of his scrub top. what do you think of this? unprofessional? supersexy? don't think anything either way? So goes a pertinent question on a Livejournal forum. I'm not a girl, so I don't know what to say. But I am a boy and I wear scrubs. For now, I am undershirt-free. I'm not exactly Wolfman or anything, but I most likely have some chest hair showing much of the time. I wear scrubs that fit me,

Getting All Hormonal: Type 2 Diabetes
Call me crazy, but I really like endocrinology. Hormones are up there with neurons in the category of weird, esoteric, but cool body systems. I picked up on it in Anatomy II and I've been studying it here and there ever since. I even doodle hormone maps when I'm bored in class: hypothalamus → TRH → anterior pituitary → TSH → thyroid → T4 → T3 = boosted metabolic rate. I have a lot of ideas and theories about hormones which are (hopefully) not that es