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guavaboy's Profile
Registered Nurse since 1977. I teaching nursing these days, in USA and Nepal. Usual topics are Nepal; infectious disease outbreaks and the politics thereof. Buy my second book - The Sacrament of the Goddess.
Real Name: Niemczura Joe
Location: T 2 R 11, ME, United States
Occupation: RN, University faculty
Groups: Satyameva Jayate
Twitter: @CCNEPal2013
Diaries published: 323 (30 days since last diary on Sun Jul 04, 2021 at 04:02 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 3282 (3 days since last comment on Sat Jul 31, 2021 at 03:47 AM PDT)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 1955
Total Comment Ratings: 475
Most Recommended Diary: The South Asia water crisis is here. A hundred million people will be affected to begin with, 255 comments, 275 recommends
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Waiting to see who else might write about this on DKOS and surprised to see that nobody has. This is a short diary, I want to put it up so I can discuss this masterpiece with about a million of my friends…...
by guavaboy
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on Sun Jul 04, 2021 at 04:02 AM PDT
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Let’s start with a quick video from May 14th (mostly in English): Oxygen is all around us As everybody knows, supplemental oxygen is a main treatment for covid-19 pneumonia, and it saves lives. In May and into June, there have been many reports coming...
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on Sat Jun 12, 2021 at 05:22 AM PDT
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The United States Agency for International Development shipped more pallets of equipment to Nepal, to aid in the covid19 wave now under way. The equipment included: Over the past six months alone, USAID has provided Nepal with COVID-19 testing...
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on Mon May 31, 2021 at 09:50 AM PDT
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Long time readers will know that I usually spend the summer in South Asia, teaching critical care skills in Nepal, the Himalayan country between India and China. Starting in 2007, I made eleven trips there, travelling throughout the country, being...
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on Tue Apr 27, 2021 at 04:54 PM PDT
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Now is the Time for All Good Nurses to Come to the Aid of Their Country So we are at the phase where it is "all hands on deck" for those who know how to give an intramuscular injection and also possess free time. Like everything else in the covid19...
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on Sun Feb 07, 2021 at 05:32 AM PST
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So I am an RN and I teach nursing at a Community College in Florida these days, though regular readers will recall that I comment a lot about Maine where I used to live, as well as Nepal where I’ve had a project to upgrade critical care skills since...
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on Thu Jan 07, 2021 at 02:01 PM PST
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- On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit in the Supreme Court asking that the outcome of the federal election in four states—states that voted for Joe Biden—be overturned. Not recounted. Not investigated. But overthrown,...386 comments 533 Recs
- This will be fairly short. We need to stop talking and blogging about Emily Murphy. While she was the main hold up in the transition of power that should’ve happened two weeks ago, she’s just this week’s Kim Davis. She the “victim” of...45 comments 11 Recs
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