A Nurse, an ERROR and a DEATH: But is it CRIMINAL?
RaDonda Leanne Vaught became the first nurse criminally convicted for a medication error.
Hogwarts, My Warts, and Coitus Illegitimus: What you might not know about HPV
Up until the early 1900s, warts found anywhere on the body were all attributed to the “human wart virus.”
Improbably Innocent or Circumstantially Guilty After the Deaths of Four Children?
Kathleen and Craig Folbigg’s first baby, Caleb, died when he was 19 days old.
MEDICATION ABORTION
Had medication abortion been available in 1994, she might still be alive. Today there are safe and effective medications to induce abortion.
Flora: A Poem
Confident child.I carried the little budjust below my breastbonein that unguarded ganglia of nerves. Thenyour filthy handsbelow my collarbonescaused such desiccation.There is no rejuvenation ofdead buds or dead nerves.Dry leaves stuck in my throatsuffocating poetry, intimacy, and kinship. And soI lay my healing hands onclavicle and symphysis and sacrumto succor buds in other girlsin vindication […]
The Secret Life of Dr. James Barry:
The Physician, Military Officer, and Public Health Advocate who was Born a Woman and Lived as a Man. One of the most forward-thinking public health professionals in the pantheon of British physicians is a man who is rarely mentioned. Some think he should be nominated for the title “The Father of Public Health,” while others […]