In Canada it has been the standard since 2001 that RN's must have a bachelor of science degree in nursing. Not equivalent to MD but nurses who have a doctorate in nursing can be nurse practitioners, deliver babies and run clinics, conduct research, and do many of the procedures a doctor normally does.
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Is health care really better in Canada?
by Bubblie insince, i live in the us, i have always heard that they have better hospitals and access to health care in canada.
what can you say to me the help me out?.
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Is health care really better in Canada?
by Bubblie insince, i live in the us, i have always heard that they have better hospitals and access to health care in canada.
what can you say to me the help me out?.
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Thought for the day
by John Doe ini've been questioning my course in life the last few weeks.
am i building the right life?
i feel as clueless now as i did 10 years ago.
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If you only have a year to go, I think it would be good to finish. You'll get a sense of accomplishment for finishing what you started and getting through it. If you don't care about money, there are plenty of organizations that pay squat that you could work for. I'm sure they all need good lawyers too. Talk to Ilbh. He has a law degree and doesn't use it for his employment, but he doesn't regret getting it at all.
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Thought for the day
by John Doe ini've been questioning my course in life the last few weeks.
am i building the right life?
i feel as clueless now as i did 10 years ago.
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If this is any help, I also don't believe we are suited to only one particular path in life as far as study, careers or anything else goes. Well, perhaps a few gifted geniuses are, but for most of us we are a little more well-rounded in our development and have a number of aptitudes and a number of activities that we might enjoy equally.
However, life is short and it is not always possible to be able to focus to the same degree on all of them. You may be a perfectly good lawyer and also may have done just fine at something else. We can torture ourselves in life with "what if's" and "if only's". How might my life have turned out differently if I had chosen this other path.
In a way, this type of thinking can be fruitless fantasy and another way to procrastinate. Every life choice has it's upsides and downsides. I can guarantee you that the farmer out hoeing his field by hand at 6 am on an almost freezing morning has also spent a good deal of time wondering, "what if I had gone to college and become a lawyer? I could be in a warm bed right now, sleeping in until 8am, and then off to my cushy job in a nice office, raking in the big bucks, instead of freezing my ass off out in the cold dark morning, hands blistered, and worrying if I'm going to make the mortgage on the family farm this month.
If you absolutely hate everything about what you are doing, then by all means, life is short, considering changing paths. However, if you do enjoy certain aspects of what your doing and find others a little tedious and mundane and less preferable to some cocoa and a nap, then that is just life and comes with any job. After all, they don't call it work because it's fun like play! That's why they have to pay us to do it!
Also good to keep in mind: Very few people have the capability to become a lawyer. Very few people in life earn as good an income. Those are not to be dismissed lightly.
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Thought for the day
by John Doe ini've been questioning my course in life the last few weeks.
am i building the right life?
i feel as clueless now as i did 10 years ago.
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Hey John
Great post about your dad. It sounds like that was one of your defining moments but perhaps you didn't realize it at the time.
I think we expect to have some great epiphany at some time in our lives where our purpose and everything else becomes crystal clear. I believe that is a fantasy fed by fairy tales, movies, religion, etc.
In reality, I believe defining moments are often quieter, gentler, and come at times when we least expect it. They can be little flashes of awareness that come piece meal along the journey of life. Turn a corner here and see a slightly new perspective. Round the bend and get a little better glimpse of the way foreward. They can also come at times of loss, big or small, or times of transition.
Are you rethinking your commitment to your path of study? Wondering if others might have been more suited to you?
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If this woman truly is irresponsible as the grandma claims, not paying any support and leaving grandma to take care of the kids, then grandma and grandpa are enablers. They should have just said "NO" a long time ago, no to financial support and no to daycare. By not allowing their daughter to face the full ramifications of having 6 children, they have made it easier for her to have more.
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Cog-ni-zant dis-si-dent. I must be a frickin genius, then!
One man's genius is another man's moron.
Gee, what are you trying to say FHN?
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Gee Beks, looks like anger to me
The doctor who did this is an asshole
US public outraged over fertility treatment for mother of six. Anger and confusion was growing in the US this weekend over the birth of octuplets to a single mother of six who had undergone fertility treatment.
If sympathy for her is what's being sought, I suggest checking in the dictionary between sh!t and syphilis.
Nadya Suleman, 33, has been lambasted by talk-show hosts, fertility experts, even her own mother,
Nasty callers dominated the phone lines in the first few days after the octuplets were born at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center.
This assinine woman who had the 8 kids is no hero. She's an irresponsible, leeching, moron.
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Indeed three syllables in a username is a sure sign of intelligence.
Cog-ni-zant dis-si-dent. I must be a frickin genius, then!
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Thanks for putting that article up Purps.
So, to recap:
- No laws have been broken
- No welfare payments have been received to look after any children
- No children have been abused or harmed
- No children have been neglected as of yet.
- Normal medical procedures were not followed but mother and doctor both agreed to take the risk and both mother and all children survived.
I still don't see what all the anger and fuss is about. Nobody has been harmed by what this woman did. Nobody's rights have been infringed by what this woman and her doctor did, least of all the rights of any posters on this thread. No harm, no foul, in my opinion.