Storyteller, musician and humorist Garrison Keillor (of public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion) wrote a poignant tribute to nurses in the Spring edition of Scrubs Magazine (you can find Scrubs Magazine at a scrubs retailer near you!).
We here at Scrubs are not only longtime fans of Lake Wobegon (where “all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average”) but also of The Writer’s Almanac, in which Keillor imparts brief facts and poetry related to each day’s date.
Here are some entertaining references to nurses that we’ve selected from the Prairie Home Companion and The Writer’s Almanac. Listen to them, then share them with your friends. Some are truly inspirational, some are borderline silly, but they are all entertaining!
First, Garrison Keillor welcomes his nurses to his radio show after his heart operation.
Margaret Sanger is one of my heroes. Let us not forget the women (& men) that fought (died, imprisoned) to provide women the right for control over our reproduction. This right is still being fought today and we must not take it for granted that we will always have that CHOICE. Thank you, Mr. Kellor.
Birth control is of utmost importance, yet Sanger promoted an extreme and uncaring view of that right:
“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race
(Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)
On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
“…human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ‘spawning… human beings who never should have been born.” Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people