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sorry for the delay

we got the PCR back and the pt's viral load was nothing. zip, zilch, zero. this suggests STRONGLY a false positive. the powers that be are still going to test my PCR for hep c when i get tested in 6 weeks and 3 months.

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think about it

as german physicist Max Planck once put it, "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

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more and more complicated

i got stuck by a pt needle on wednesday morning. it was when i was giving the pt heparin. i think it happened because i was so tired. ironically, i was less than a week from being off quarantine from my last stick. the common…

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is it nursing or is it nurses?

i am snuggled in my "not as fresh as they were yesterday" (wink wink) sheets reading and snacking and facebooking and snuggling down in my fluffy sheets. and i DON'T want to go to work. at all. is it nursing? when i think about being…

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