Department: Bedside Stories

"Emergencies" and schedules.

How people love their drugs!

How people react when the pharmacy is busy.

It's late, your husband has run off, you've no friends or family to call, so who do you call?

A simple daily ritual can do wonders for uplifting the soul.

The bars are closed. Need to talk? Call the pharmacist.

Max learns three lessons, and may have saved a life.

Who would have known that a pharmacy could be so busy at 6am? Or that they had three patients with the same name?

Max learns a new way of speaking – and about how well trained he wasn't!

Max puts aside semi-retirement to work semi-full-time as a relief neighborhood pharmacist in and around New York City.

Lonni Trykowski's poem is about the elderly and her place in their world. For now, she is an outsider, but, one day, she knows she will take their place.

A story about the most valuable gifts we can give or receive – our time and our love.

It's standard to assume that hospitals are scary nightmares for children …

When his father was hospitalized for surgery, Mark gained a real appreciation for what healthcare professionals endure.

A nurse writes of her experience sitting at a patient's bedside – sitting next to Death.

An MSF doctor's story of braving poverty, politics, and bottlenecks to help in the fight against HIV in Lagos.

An old man tells his young nurse never to get old.

Saying thank-you is one thing, but what this nurse was offered should have been on The Sopranos!

The story of an American RN who found that nursing in Saudi Arabia taught her things that couldn't be learned in a book.

How many wedding party members can you sneak into a small, private hospital room?