The Beatles. Meditation. All Things D.C. Constipation (more than you want to know).
Shayne: “Casey, why the Beatles? I love them but why now?“
Paul, John, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, George and Ringo
Casey: “Because I can’t think of the Beatles without thinking about the 70’s and I can’t think of the 70’s without thinking of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Maharishi achieved fame as the guru to The Beatles and other celebrities. He started the TM program in the late 1970s that claimed to offer practitioners the ability to levitate and to create world peace.
And Shayne, I just happen to be practicing TM and I cannot say enough about the benefits. On the show this week we have TM instructor Marjie Biller with us to talk about the practice and a program specifically created for nurses and healthcare practioners.”
And, just what is the “Fiscal Cliff” and what is it doing to our health? Donna Smith on All Things D.C. Read more…
Nurse Talk Gift Giving Guide. What the Frack? Oy Vey in a Manger.
A great show this week. Shayne shares his softer side when he tells Casey he has already been thinking about a holiday gift for her.
Shayne to Casey: “O.K Casey — its sort of a personal thing so I hope you won’t be mad — but I researched some exercise options for you and want to gift you a membership to whichever one of these resonates with you.”
Casey responds, “O.K. if you must — it’s better than having to do the research myself — what ya got?”
Shayne: “O.K.: 1) Weighted Hula Hooping…”
Says Lisa M. Wolfe of Demand Media about this hot new fitness option, “If you have an addictive personality, use caution when beginning a weighted hula hoop workout. Hooping may take priority above your other daily activities…
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Coming Up
O.K. let’s see a show of hands from all of you who MAY have overindulged on Thanksgiving. I, for one, did and then swore I would eat sensibly from that day forward. O.K. — starting January 1st — I am on a DIET — no […]
Laughter. Blood Pressure. Jean & Karen. Horizontal.
This week we’re sharing a vintage clip of one our favorite funny ladies, Ellen Degeneres in her first appearance on the Johnny Carson to start you off with some chuckles.
And Casey offers scientific evidence that “laughter is the best medicine.” What happens when we laugh? We change physiologically when we laugh. We stretch muscles throughout our face and body, our pulse and blood pressure go up, and we breathe faster, sending more oxygen to our tissues. In the last few decades, researchers have studied laughter’s effects on the body and turned up some potentially interesting information on how it affects us:
- Blood Flow
- Immune Response
- Blood Sugar Levels
- Relaxation and Sleep
Just to test the affects on blood flow and blood pressure, Casey and Shayne conduct a very dangerous “on air” experiment. You won’t want to miss it.
Plus RNs Jean Ross and Karen Higgins on why you should be involved in patient advocacy beyond the bedside and Dr. Christina Purpora discusses horizontal violence among nurses. A message for new grads: It’s systemic. It’s NOT you. Read more…
Miss Sylvia. Will I Ever Wear A Bikini Again? State Of Wealth-Being.Tribute To RNs on the Front Lines.
Welcome once again to Nurse Talk where laughter is the best medicine. Who is Miss Sylvia? Well, for those of you who were fans of Mad TV, (and we are if you haven’t already guessed) Aunt Sylvia was sometimes the school nurse, and sometimes the “fragile” absent minded pharmacist. Here she gives a class lesson on a rather private topic:
AND so goes another episode of Nurse Talk. BUT of course there’s more to us than that! Comedian, writer, storyteller, sitcom star Marilyn Kentz chats with Casey and Shayne about her new one woman show Will I Ever Wear A Bikini Again? Some of you may remember Marilyn and her friend and neighbor (from Petaluma, Calif.), Caryl Christensen from their 1990’s hit sitcom “The Mommies.” Marilyn talks about the value of humor in her life as well as the joys of aging without grace!
A tribute to our nurses from National Nurses United and all nurses around the world. Read more…
Coming Up…Cal Props 30 and 32 Decoded, Naked in the Nursing Home and Airline-Style Medical Billing
As we continue to celebrate Nurse Talk’s 4th birthday we, of course, had to drag out yet another blast from the beginning days of Nurse Talk with then co-host Maggie McDermott and one of our favorite callers Muriel. And for those of you who might […]
God’s Hotel. I Need a Nurse…But There Isn’t One! 89-Year-Old Goes Rogue. Or Does He?
“How about those GIANTS”, says co-host Shayne Mason. “What about them?” replies host Casey Hobbs. Disgraceful but true. It turns out neither one of them knew their own San Francisco Giants were in the national baseball playoffs! I know they’re nurses but–I also know nurses get around. Go GIANTS!
Wow! Do we have a great show coming up. A couple of months ago Casey read a book called God’s Hotel, A Doctor, A Hospital, and A Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine. The book was written by San Francisco physician Dr. Victoria Sweet about San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital, the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves — “anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times” and needed extended medical care — ended up there. Dr. Sweet ended up there herself, as a physician. And though she came for only a two-month stay, she remained for twenty years. Casey couldn’t put the book down and then couldn’t stop talking about it. So we decided to invite Dr. Sweet to talk with us about her amazing book. Read more…
