Did you know that Agatha Christie…was a nurse?!
Hear her story [1 min 19 sec].
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So, what do you think of Garrison Keillor’s portrayal of nurses? Does he stereotype nurses on his show? Or does he give them the credit they deserve? Share your thoughts below!
This article is mentioned in the Spring 2010 print edition of Scrubs Magazine, which can be found at uniform retail stores nationwide or purchased online. Go to http://scrubsmag.com/magazine for a peek inside and to find out where you can get your copy!
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