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	<title>The magical mystery land of community health</title>
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	<description>I don&#039;t make this stuff up!...but I do change identifying information.</description>
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		<title>Thursday is Haiku Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trying to do work

Remote account&#8211;can&#8217;t log in
Angry&#8230;yet relieved.
Crazy man in hall
Patients gather to watch the show
Hello?  Privacy?
Stressed doctor mutters
&#8220;Should have chose different field&#8221;
Not having good day.

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		<link>http://lesbonurse.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/thursday-is-haiku-day/</link>
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		<title>Furious like me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I saw a patient that is always angry about something.  You probably know the type.  The cholesterol medication &#8220;almost killed me&#8221; with its GI side effects.  The topical steroid cream &#8220;didn&#8217;t help this rash that is killing me.&#8221;  Her PCP &#8220;doesn&#8217;t help me&#8221; and usually &#8220;nobody here cares.&#8221;
During the visit we were discussing her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesbonurse.wordpress.com&blog=2579163&post=548&subd=lesbonurse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lesbonurse.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/furious-like-me/</link>
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		<title>Unfunny week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t the greatest of weeks in the life of Lesbonurse.
It started when I sent a patient to the ER, thinking that she had a critical but ultimately fixable problem.  It turned out that she had metastasized pancreatic cancer&#8211;picked up as an incidental finding on the imaging study I had ordered.  It&#8217;s nice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesbonurse.wordpress.com&blog=2579163&post=545&subd=lesbonurse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lesbonurse.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/unfunny-week/</link>
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		<title>Internal dialogue&#8211;Self vs. Self</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doing rectal exam for patient with complaint of bleeding:
Says to Self: Is that the prostate that I&#8217;m feeling?
Other self replies: Ummm, nope.  That&#8217;s the edge of a piece of poo in the rectum.
Self: Ok, time to do the hemocult card then!
(Both selves exit room carrying hemocult card, wash hands and then return to office [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesbonurse.wordpress.com&blog=2579163&post=542&subd=lesbonurse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lesbonurse.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/internal-dialogue-self-vs-self/</link>
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		<title>A happy story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I had the pleasure of witnessing the rare and elusive &#8220;successful patient intervention.&#8221;
Last week I saw an elderly man and his adult son.  The man had a complaint about a rash in his groin.  When I had him take off his pants, I wanted to cry.  Not only did he have a terrible, raw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesbonurse.wordpress.com&blog=2579163&post=540&subd=lesbonurse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lesbonurse.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/a-happy-story/</link>
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		<title>Three times a day is&#8230;whew</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My colleague at work was telling me about a recent patient.  The woman was in her early 30&#8217;s with a chief complaint of vaginal discharge.  During the HPI, the woman remarked that she has sex (ie: intercourse) 3 times a day, every day.  Holy jesus, that&#8217;s a lot of sex!  Of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesbonurse.wordpress.com&blog=2579163&post=537&subd=lesbonurse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lesbonurse.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/three-times-a-day-is-whew/</link>
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		<title>Best quote of the week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patient, describing her hip pain:
&#8220;So it hurts when I do this (external rotation) and it hurts when I have sex&#8211;you know, when I open my legs.  And I can&#8217;t even ride a man anymore!&#8221;
Runner-up for best quote of the week from woman with vaginal discharge: &#8220;I can tell that I&#8217;m having discharge because whenever I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesbonurse.wordpress.com&blog=2579163&post=535&subd=lesbonurse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lesbonurse.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/best-quote-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>Mmm, creamy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Me: I see you have some upcoming GI appointments.
Patient: Yes, my Bavarian swallow is scheduled in November.
Me: Uh-huh, I did see that they booked you for a barium swallow.
Patient: I have to go back and see that GI doctor after I get my Bavarian swallow.
Me: Yes, we do want to follow up on the barium [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesbonurse.wordpress.com&blog=2579163&post=531&subd=lesbonurse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lesbonurse.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/mmm-creamy/</link>
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		<title>Continuing education, I luv you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took a few days off of work for one of my favorite professional diversions&#8211;a conference!  I&#8217;m kind of a conference whore, I guess.  In an average year I attend about 3 conferences, and this year the total is going to be 6 (3 as an attendee, 3 as a speaker). I love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesbonurse.wordpress.com&blog=2579163&post=528&subd=lesbonurse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lesbonurse.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/continuing-education-i-luv-you/</link>
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		<title>Good News and Bad News: A Haiku</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s good and bad:
Good: new pair of dansko clogs
Bad: Diarrhea
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		<link>http://lesbonurse.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/good-news-and-bad-news-a-haiku/</link>
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