It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter ho...
Medicine asked something extraordinary of nurses: to forge intimate connections with another person for hours, weeks, or months, to care thoroughly and holistically—and then to let that individual sud...
Membership in small groups allows people to feel similar and different at the same time: similar because they are a part of a group in different because the group is separate from the masses.
Molly had heard that some staff nurses treated agency nurses poorly, but she was surprised now that it was happening to her. If the agency nurses weren’t there, the staff nurses would have a much high...
Molly had no desire to be a floor nurse. At every hospital where she had worked, there was a rivalry between the ER and the other nursing departments. We think they’re lazy and they think we’re bitche...
My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother's alarmingly narrow ideal, but also for the middle daughter who knew that her in mother's mind she had already fail...
Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.
No student should be encouraged -- by anyone -- to change himself until he's normal, a term that says everything and means nothing.
Nobody’s listening to me, he thought, story of my life.
Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these stud...
Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
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