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Thu, 9 May 2002 07:39:38 +0100 (BST)

Dr Maddox,
Thank you for your blessing.
I believe the term you were groping for is
"multi-syllabic".
Yours ever,
Jules Bowman.
(A faithful, moody and strong-willed nurse.)

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> Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 17:12:40 -0400
> From: revegg@att.net
> To: KMATTOX@AOL.COM
> CC: ccm-l@list.pitt.edu, trauma-list@trauma.org,
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> Subject: Re: To those who are never thanked
> sufficiently or enough
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> Thank you for making it special.
> Ron
> 
> KMATTOX@AOL.COM wrote:
> > 
> > We spend more time with them than with our
> families.
> > They know more about our moods, our art form, our
> methods of treatment,  our
> > style than we know about ourselves.
> > We praise their skill and endurance;
> > We note their endless notes and never-ending
> entries.
> > 
> > They are the nurses with whom we work minute after
> minute, hour after hour,
> > day after day and year after year.
> > 
> > This is National Nurse Week and we acknowledge
> that they too are a vital part
> > of these web sites.
> > 
> > Like family members, we do not fully understand
> them, we often wonder about
> > their moods, but we cannot and do not want to work
> without them.
> > 
> > We do not understand how or why the nurses are
> geographically bound to the
> > Emergency Center, Operating Room, ICU, ward, and
> clinic, we are glad that
> > they are focused on the specific targeted job at
> hand.
> > 
> > They are they prior to arrival in our positions,
> and remain to clean up the
> > room, patient, chart, when we move on to other
> locations.
> > 
> > We depend on them to explain to the patient and
> the family the meaning of our
> > multiple sylablical words.   They must remain at
> the bedside long after we
> > have found some way to disappear from an
> undesirable situation.
> > 
> > They are tempted by escalating salaries, agency
> and registry bargains, and
> > traveling opportunities, but loyal to their
> current team.
> > 
> > Personalities and moods of these nurses are fitted
> to the location and shift
> > with which they choose to labor.   The night EC
> nurse is totally different
> > from the daytime clinic nurse.   The ICU nurse
> practitioner is different from
> > the scrub nurse.
> > 
> > More than 200,000 national positions short, they
> double up to cover the
> > needed critical tasks for trauma and critical care
> needs of every city.
> > 
> > The skills and spirits of the nurses with whom
> each of us work are the best
> > of the league, for they choose to walk and work in
> the valley of the shadow
> > of death, and they fear no evil, for they are
> skilled and dedicated.    The
> > nurses that toil in the EC, OR, ICU and special
> care units of trauma and
> > critical care are the best of the breed, the most
> dedicated of the dedicated,
> > and the most talented of the talented.    They are
> driven and strong willed.
> > 
> > 
> > Being strong willed, they can be frustrating and
> exasperating at times.  But
> > so can each of us surgeons, emergency physicians,
> intensivists,
> > anesthesiologists, and other critical care
> specialists.
> > 
> > To this brave breed and focused team, to those who
> are vital to the success
> > of the EMS, EC, OR, ICU matrix, to the nurses of
> our composite teams, we
> > salute and thank you.    May our patients benefit
> because together we care.
> > God bless you each and all.
> > 
> > Kenneth L. Mattox
> > Houston
> 
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