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Poster Children

We were going down as a team. At least we could finally tell Lynn Schultz-Writsel, our recently retired boss here at Marketing and...
On the Pulse | 04/28/14

Onward and Upward

“The bunker” is a room just off the helipad atop the Sheikh Zayed Tower at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Its windows offer a...
On the Pulse | 04/14/14

Moving Forward

We were a snow globe without the snow. The nine of us, among a crowd discharged from a Metro train beneath the Johns Hopkins Hospital, had...
On the Pulse | 02/25/14

Winded

The Armstrong Building sits downhill and slightly to the north of the Hopkins Outpatient Center. Between the two runs a pretty brick...
On the Pulse | 02/05/14

The Way the Ball Bounces

Day after day, it was Vincent Liu, a tennis racket, a ball, and a wall — plus the determination to play a game he had grown to love...
On the Pulse | 12/16/13

Outside the Box

Maybe, instead of positioning traffic cops at troublesome intersections, we should station Hopkins DNP grads. That stands for Doctor of...
On the Pulse | 12/05/13

The Ugly Duckling

My chair came in first. Then a bunch of others arrived and stole all the medals. Serves me right for getting my hopes up. See, I was brand...
On the Pulse | 11/05/13

Slippery Slope

That candy bar sure wasn’t doing anybody any good just sitting there in the bedside drawer. And the surgery wasn’t for another hour or...
On the Pulse | 10/14/13

Rocking the Cradle or the Boat?

There was much that was good about the Summer 2013 issue of Johns Hopkins Nursing magazine, if I do say so myself. (I currently serve as...
On the Pulse | 10/07/13