Dr. Benjamin Brewer has produced a beautifully written article about nurses’ occupational injuries. Here’s an excerpt:

As she reaches up to restart the pump, the glow from the sunrise illuminates a long, discolored scar that runs from her right wrist to the middle of her forearm. At a previous job in a nursing home, a patient violently twisted her right hand and bent back two fingers, rupturing tendons at the wrist.

On a lighter note, maybe it would help if Marc Jacobs started designing nurse uniforms. He seems to want bring back to the days of the Nurse Ratched uniform, only with a peculiar black veil covering the face:

(image from iconique.com)

What is up with this? She’s not really a “naughty nurse” so much as she’s a 1940’s era nurse with a big fat handbag that she could use to whack you over the head. And what about the black veil? Is she about to rob a pyxis machine? Or perhaps it’s a subliminal attempt by Marc Jacobs, telling nurses to be silent. I smell a Center for Nursing Advocacy campaign. Something also tells me that Marc Jacobs won’t actually care about what the Center has to say until nurses actually make a high enough salary to actually afford some of his attire.

I think I’m losing site of the most important question here, which is this: Would Kim from Emergiblog approve of this nursing cap?

Incidentally, the Center for Nursing Advocacy has successfully gotten this Dentyne ad pulled, and I applaud them for it:

http://youtube.com/v/y49LHu-3aYY

When I first saw it all I could think about was kissing someone with “hospital breath” and it made me want to puke. Or reach for a stick of gum. Perhpas that was the point?