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Nursing Book ClubThe Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer and Care by Anne BoyerAn unflinching look at breast cancer...many nurses have railed against in this era of electronic medical records: Healthcare providers are often more preoccupied with computer screens and data than with people. Becoming (Literally) Toxic Actual...

Nursing Book ClubThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanA Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures ...reasons, not all of the large number of clinic and hospital visits were kept. More seriously, the Lee family faced an irreconcilable conflict between their own religious healing customs and...

FeatureThe Many Lessons of “Call the Midwife”The popular BBC series, set in mid-century London, continues to instruct and inspire modern nurses...in-hospital delivery is viewed with suspicion, so nearly all births are at home, attended by midwives who arrive on bicycles. During a delivery, husbands and other children circle around outside...

FeatureThe StethoscopeThe origins and evolution of this humble but essential diagnostic tool.A FEW YEARS AGO, a familiar piece of medical equipment quietly celebrated its 200th birthday: the humble stethoscope. This is the story of the origins and evolution of this important...