Opinion: I am far more than ‘just a nurse’

I inspect my patient from head to toe and then left to right across her body, noting ridges of scar tissue. “His machete,” she says. Dime-sized wounds are scattered across her thighs. “His cigarettes,” she explains.

I marvel at the elasticity of skin, the regrowth of hair, the capacity of body and spirit to prevail and heal.

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