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Despite the spring-autumn woman-man pairing (virtually always written by a man) and the absolutely unrealistic aspects (a valium overdose instantly causes convulsions; a patient who was frothing at the mouth, being suctioned, and is in the ICU unconscious has perfect makeup and hair; a syringe... Sign in to see full entry.

This war is like diet soda, get all you want and more, no consequences. The only reason Vietnam ended was that the people dying were not only strangers from across the sea, but people we knew, their children, and they were not volunteers. Once you volunter for the present military, you lose your... Sign in to see full entry.

Four teams helped search for a man with brain damage who wandered away from home last night in pants and shoes. We didn't find him (good, he would have been dead from the cold) but noi one found him yet. Prbably caought a ride with a friend. It must have been a little spooky for the local folks to... Sign in to see full entry.

(To my coworker).. "If I die and come back, I want to come back as a touch-typist! Everything else is secondary!". (pause) "Of course, by then keyboards will be obsolete and voice recognition will have replaced it. I'll be a touch typist with a cleft palate!!". Sign in to see full entry.

The patient might have had a lethal, contagious disease likely to pass on to others. It might be that the surgery was not what would cure the disease. But we set the operative date and time, reserved the people and materials to carry it out, gave the patient the warnings of the potential for the... Sign in to see full entry.

http://www.zulkey.com/diary_archive_101405.html I'm re-reading that book and my neck's sore from nodding "Uh-huh, yeah!". As he says, he never worries about running out of material, but of running out of time. Sign in to see full entry.

I'm looking at hitting my 20th aniversary with my employer this summer, and want to make as smooth a dismount as possible if I choose to go then. This includes looking into schooling, figuring out how to get which medical work done before I COBRA out, ditto dental and eye care, then burn no bridges... Sign in to see full entry.

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Azure, Benzinha, Cynthia, Gomedome, RoseDempsey, SpitFire 70, and others, best of the season to you and the best of LUCK! Sign in to see full entry.

A teenaged girl in Dearborn, Michigan, a strongly SW Asian/Middle Eastern habituated area which used to be known for its blue collar caucasian racism, is audiotaped by Public Radio at a street rally celebrating the execution of Saddam Hussein, exclaiming ecstatically that she was so happy to be... Sign in to see full entry.