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description: During her 60-plus years in the nursing profession as a registered nurse and a nurse practitioner Mary Ellen Huckestein has seen it all and done it all. Now in this informative book she tells it all. If you work in healthcare or are at all interested in how healthcare has evolved over the past century this book is a must-read.Mary Ellen takes us inside the hospitals and doctors offices she labored in to show us the good the bad the ugly and the beautiful. Her behind-the-scenes tour of healthcares changes over the past 60 years is a real eye-opener.From doctors who smoked and dropped ashes on charts and floors during their rounds to the first terrors of the AIDS crisis to heart-breaking stories from the pediatrics ward to back-stabbing politics and much much more this is a vivid portrayal of life at the edge of death in the hospitals of America.Read A Nurses Life as a textbook even a bible for the art and science of healthcareboth yesterday and today. Mary Ellen speaks of medicine and of the nursing profession from a platform of wide experience and understanding. Unassuming and down to earth she simply tells it as it is. And thats unusual!
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title: A Nurse's Life: Memoirs Of My Path Through Over 60 Years Of Nursing And Medical Progress
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