Department: Writing + Reviews

Do you experience malaise following workplace parties? Are you hypo- or hyperactive when the boss is away? Have you ever worked on the day after Thanksgiving?

Depression is a growing problem. But why, nowadays, do pills seem to be the only solution?

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

Stranger in a strange land? Bruce Petty shows that you're not as alone as you think.

Mark braves the no-win situation to tell it like it is!

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.

Do you feel comfortable in your workplace? Lee explains why you shouldn't make yourself at home at work …

Take an entertaining and enlightening trip through a collection of legal cases and find out what does – and, maybe more surprisingly, does not – constitute sexual harassment.

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

Unsolved medical mysteries are finally getting diagnosed.

The story of a nurse's longstanding relationship with an "awful, stinking, nasty, evil, vicious" thing …

Is the pen mightier than the sword? Sometimes it depends on whose pen it is!

What constitutes a genuine medical condition and what constitutes a stigma – or an excuse?

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

We've heard of suffering producing great art, but what about psoriasis producing revolutionaries?

Mark did some research and found that in polls of public trust, doctors rate high – personally, however, he's not so sure.

RN and paramedic Betsy Gertz could photograph any subject, but she chooses to photograph children, the elderly, and the terminally ill.

Ivan Horbak, Edna Leary, and Charlie Wentworth … can Cheri make the connection?

A blue sweater, a ham sandwich, a drug handbook … and a dead nurse.