More Nuggets

They just keep coming! One more day before Honest Abe's 200th birthday. Here are a few interesting articles (honest!) that I've encountered on the internet recently.

The good...
A happy hospital makes for happy patients
You may think this is a joke, but this is a very interesting article. Too bad we all can't work in this type of hospital, where the boss gets calls on off hours!

New surgery may give amputees more control (from http://www.msnbc.com/)
This article discusses how a new surgery will help those with arm amputations.

A great first-person account of prostate cancer treatment: Love in the Time of Prostate Cancer (from http://www.nytimes.com/)

The bad...
Drugs recalled due to manufacturing problems (from www.msnbc.com)

Pentagon reports US troop obesity doubles since 2003 (from http://www.usatoday.com/) Not unusual to see 25+ BMI anymore in our neck of the woods.

And the really ugly...
We deal with a lot of bodily fluids on our unit, but this one is a story about one that is absolutely horrible.