middleager

That's not surprising, my daughter once told me, your brain doesn't work like everyone else's, you just aren't quite right. I am sure she meant it in the nicest way. Let me try again, when we see a profession or institution that is nearly completel...

Gender dispairity is addressed in the vast majority of situations by putting attention and sometimes special effort to remediate that inequity. That attention and efforts often create the appearance and perhaps the expectation of entitlement. Given...

SWM2009, I don't think the OP is against diversity nor advocating sexism. I do however stand that if this post were a male making the same comments about females in a male dominated profession, would the discussion be about the sense of entitlement ...

If a male made such a comment in business or other area's it would automatically be labeled sexist and attacked with vigot. There was a recent article about lowering the physical requirements for female military members to qualify for combat assigne...

Well I came here initially pondering a late in life career change. I have always been fascinated with the medical profession. Love documentaries, would rather watch Trauma in the ER then basketball. Decided against it but continued to follow. I h...

I didn't mean to come off condemning the OP. I had a close friend who was a cop in the inner city. He is a great guy, but one night we were having a drink and he started talking about a domestic abuse case he had that day. From there he went into ...

a young man overdoses, is mentally devestated, a caregiver trusted with his wellbeing finds humor in his actions, uses it for her amusement, it is posted as funny.....evidently adorable is in the eye of the beholder, then again I tend to view things ...

I have both, I have a free app called splashtop which allows me to access and work on my laptop or Office PC from my ipad. it works off the windows, power point, excel, anything you have on your laptop and updates your laptop files from your ipad. ...

I recently read about a trend that is gaining popularity where several large money funds are looking to buy hospitals and take them private and cater to people with insurance and the ability to pay shunning medicaid, medicare, etc. They were looking...

If Martin Luther King or Susan B Anthony had just accepted it as the way it was, where would we be as a society. They fought the wrong and changed society. Accepting a wrong contributes to it. Discrimination based on gender is against the law rega...

Sexism is sexism regardless of how you package it or who you discriminate against. He should be offended just as an African American should be offended when someone discriminates against them because crime rates are higher among African Americans th...

While one understands everyone is human, when one expects a patient to place an incredible amount of trust in someones professionalism and compassion, the betrayal of that trust when they are most vulunerable seems wrong regardless. To make a mistak...

Interesting thread. I am a little unclear why there would be such a strong reaction against it. I understand there may be the feeling that to a degree an "intersantium" had been breeched by outsiders. Perhaps its not the perfect place for this but...

What an idiot, not surprising when you look at his job he was a dj. If he expects nurses to be his "fantasy girl" what can we expect from a dj shock jock. Not much, our expectations are more in line, we expect very little from people who make a liv...

Not a topic I thought i would ever be discussing on a blog. I swore my wife to secrecy and have never told a person but...(to easy). I struggled for years with this and that medication and perscription. finally had enough, saw a specialist, had the...

how about the for the night shift, Roadhouse Blues....let it roll baby roll, let it roll baby roll, let it roll all night long...first album I ever owned, LA Woman, my wife says she is playing it at my funeral...should I be afraid, obviously she is p...

If a person is going to be offended by inadvertant items like this that they feel were offensive to their gender, they need to be ready to do the same when it cuts the other way. Are you offended by the attention female firefighters, police, etc get...

I find it very disturbing that nurses feel the general public has such a negative opinion of them. My personal and from what I hear from others could not be further from that point. I think a more accurate barameter would be the poll that is taken ...

It seems whether it is a patient or a boss, complaints seem easier to dish out than compliments. I think the number of nurses who ignore or are truely neglient as in the article are a very small minority, as are the patients who are truely morons wh...

folks, I am an outsider here. I am not a nurse, if i could pick any profession to be in at this point of my life I would love to be a nurse. Not for the money, I am a business man and make more money then I ever thought I would, its a pretty shallo...

I was at a gathering honoring a young female soldier who completed her flight school and had just qualified to pilot heliocopters. She was fuming because she had been singled out and recognized at the ceremony, being the only female in that class sh...

From the outside, while I have seen some Dr's treat the nurses as part of a team, over all my observations has lead me to be less than impressed with how Dr's treat/regard their nurses. I had to see a dermatologist one time after I was burned in a h...

I am wondering if the OP did not mean physical exams in what non medical people think of when one says physical exam ie sports physicals, pre employment, DOT, annuals, etc.

Carolladybelle, excellent point, I could not agree with you more. As long as someone is willing to accept that when they are on the end of the decision that requires them to make that choice, I could not agree more. My problem is more with those th...

But what about the ones that were already working before it came out, are you really going to have a policy that if you worked before this date you don't have to dispense this but if you started after this date you have to? Is that how we would prop...