I’ve been thinking about this piece for a year. There’s so much more I could say. The only thing that matters is that Martha should be alive today…
‘We had such trust, we feel such fools’: how shocking hospital mistakes led to our daughter’s death https://t.co/DzNearcQeQ
Had a patient (well known to myself and the department) ask if she’d keep seeing me this admission. I said yes, and she said “good, I like how you just explain things”. Why don’t we “just explain things” more?
Losing a medical friend to suicide this week has really hit me hard. I hadn’t spoken to her in a while, which in some ways makes it worse. I’m okay, but the fact that I know this won’t be the last time in my career I feel this way isn’t
Over the phone people often need clarification of my name (Taylor vs Kaela) and I’ve really nailed the age split between “like Taylor Swift” and “like Elizabeth Taylor”
I’m a nurse practitioner working in specialist palliative aged care. Let me share with you just a little bit about what happens in a residential aged care facility/‘nursing home’ that doesn’t have registered nurses 24/7 365 days of the year.