Speaking Truth to Power Works and These Singing Nurses are Funny | Show 319
Hey if you weren’t around for the Laryngospasms and our enlightening conversation with cancer survivor and now health care activist Cynthia Campbell…tune in for this show. Laugh, learn and listen as we treat you to a “Best of Nurse Talk.” Check it out! Gary, Keith, […]
Capitol Hill and Applied Humor | Show 318
Even if it is old news by now Casey and Dan just had to say something about a “Sputnik” moment. Seems Casey is confused and doesn’t know we have already put a man on the moon.This week our good friend Donna Smith updates us on […]
NNU: Nurse protest prompts Blue Shield to delay rate hike
People power works, and not just in Egypt.Blue Shield of California today announced a 60-day reprieve in an unconscionable rate hike of up to 59 percent it intends to foist on individuals and families.The announcement coincided with announced plans by nurses, patients, and consumer advocates […]
Keeping the Promise | Show 317
But first a little housekeeping. Some of you may have noticed that from time to time you can’t find us in our usual slot on Green 960 AM San Francisco. Well it’s only temporary. Seems that basketball is more popular than little old Nurse Talk. […]
Obamacare | Show 314
My Heavens! When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with mars then peace will guide the planets and love will see the stars! WELL NOT ANY MORE! Thanks to an overactive galactic phenom called “precession”…everything has changed. Well not everything…just our […]
NNU: Let’s stop pretending it was a government takeover of healthcare
Our pal Deborah Burger, RN, is co-president of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of RNs, with 160,000 members around the country. Healthcare reform? She’s written a great piece about what we need to do now.”It’s time to move […]
2011 Uninsured Death Tolls
Casey and Dan open the show this week by announcing the 2011 uninsured death tolls for California and the U.S. —95 for the state and 800 and county for the nation and counting. These numbers have a way of bringing home the sobering fact that […]
