Blogs about: Florence Nightingale

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12 June

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Tags: Personal Interests, Clayton's Weird Fact, Mabel Newcomber, weirdralph, Chick Corea, Jim Nabors, Anne Frank, Alfred Hitchcock

Happy Birthday Florence Nightingale

heartstrong wrote 1 month ago: We salute Florence Nightingale, a pioneer nurse. Nightingale would celebrate her 189th birthday thi … more →

Tags: Nursing, Nurse

Trip to E.R. turns from drama to comedy4 comments

lifesalaugh wrote 2 months ago: Recently I had to take a trip to the emergency room because of a nasty reaction to Cipro – a horribl … more →

Tags: this n' that, About kids, About life, About Funny Stories, About Women, shelli netko blog, life is a laugh, lifesalaugh, shelli netko

Pioneering medics to be honoured

alexanderlawrie wrote 2 months ago: By ALEXANDER LAWRIE TWO NINETEENTH century pioneering Scots medics are to be commemorated at a new c … more →

Tags: 1, Edinburgh, Deadline Press & Picture Agency, Edinburgh News, Edinburgh University, Sir Sean Connery, rbs, Scottish news, fountainbridge

05.12.09 - Tuesday8 comments

Joshua James LeJeune wrote 2 months ago: Word: augur [aw-ger] n. 1. one of a group of ancient Roman officials charged with observing and inte … more →

Tags: A.J. Jacobs, Robert Frost, Carrie Prejean, george carlin, augur, Henry Cabot Lodge, katharine hepburn, Archibald Cox, Mary Kay Ash

MAY BIRTHDAYS FOR "LINCOLN" & HIS FRIENDS & FOES

awesometalks wrote 2 months ago: Here are some May birthdays for Lincoln’s friends and foes. And perhaps a few who lived before … more →

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Birthdays, John Brown, John Wilkes Booth, Julia Gardner Tyler, Julia Ward Howe, Karl Marx, mary surratt, May

A Painful Memory

drlindagalloway wrote 2 months ago: He always arrived in front of the building with a New York City police escort.  I’m certain he had t … more →

Tags: hospitals, doctors, pregnant women, medically poor, Medicaid, Hypocrisy, medical exploitation, patients

Stanfords Travel Bookstore @ Covent Garden

everydaylifestyle wrote 3 months ago: 旅行の前にいつもお世話になるのが、コベントガーデンにあるStanfords。1853年にEdward Stanfordによって創業、1901年には現在地に開店したという、由緒ある店だ。地下1階、地上 … more →

Tags: London, Stores, Travel, イギリス, コベントガーデン, シャーロック・ホームズ, トラベルガイド, フローレンス・ナイチンゲール, マイケル・ペイリン

Social Physics and Astronomy12 comments

telescoper wrote 3 months ago: When I give popular talks about Cosmology,  I sometimes look for appropriate analogies or metaphors … more →

Tags: The Universe and Stuff, statistics, Cosmology, astronomy, Bertillonage, quetelet

Sims opinion, and Commonwealth embarrassment

anthonyhildebrand wrote 4 months ago: SMT Online editor Brian Sims has pulled no punches today in his forthright analysis of the recent ki … more →

Tags: News Highlights, Brian Sims, CCTV, CCTV Doctor, Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, Genie CCTV, I4S India, IFSEC, IndigoVision

Book Giveaway from Penguin: The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon63 comments

lisamm wrote 5 months ago: Matt from Penguin Group USA is graciously offering this beautiful book, The Rose of Sebastopol by Ka … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, Contests, Historical Fiction, Giveaways, Book Giveaways, Fiction, 100k celebration, Penguin

Could Stigma Stop the Next Churchill?

ewhitlock wrote 5 months ago: “Florence Nightingale might never have succeeded with modern stigma against mental illness … more →

Tags: Education, mental illness, Mental Health, Stigma, winston churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Tony Blair, Charles Darwin

Stigma through the Ages10 comments

cb wrote 5 months ago: This morning, I read an article on the Telegraph’s website which asks, I thought a really pert … more →

Tags: Discrimination, Mental Health, social issues, Work, Abraham Lincoln, Alastair Campbell, Bipolar Disorder, health, mental disorder

Was Florence Nightingale a designer?

emilycampbell wrote 6 months ago: October 22 2008: Mark Bostridge, latest biographer of Florence Nightingale, has reminded us that her … more →

Tags: Self-Reliance, consumption, dan pink, Information design, DIY

What new technology emerged from the Crimean War?

kenbaker wrote 6 months ago: The Crimean War began in 1853 when Ottoman Turkey declared war on Tsarist Russia. This declaration w … more →

Tags: History, A Level History, British Empire, Imperial Expansion 1815-1870, Empire and Expansion, Crimean War, Victorian, crimea, Seacole

Talking Timbuktu

takeall wrote 6 months ago: Talking Timbuktu is a groundbreaking record that vividly illustrates the Africa-Blues connection in … more →

Tags: Timbuktu, roman god of wine, primary framework

The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style

etoffice wrote 6 months ago: “Clothes make the man.” Mark Twain never worked in today’s fast-paced workplace … more →

Tags: Machiavellian, Benedict Arnold, Norman Rockwell, norman rockwell family, Nicholas Antongiavanni

Florence Nightingale: Health Metrics Pioneer

Abraham Flaxman wrote 7 months ago: Nightingale's Coxcomb Science News recently ran an article on the health statistics work and dat … more →

Tags: Global Health, coxcomb, Infoviz, statistics, the dryest of all reading

Let's Play Doctor. 2 comments

Luna de Miel wrote 9 months ago: You won’t feel a thing. Well, perhaps a stirring in your loins as you watch these two clips. B … more →

Tags: Clip of the day, Produced Porn, breasts, gauge, doctors, boob exam, Coma Ward, Young Doctors In Love, medical fetish