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NURSING WITH STYLE
Out of uniform
Scrubs magazine, premier issue
The first lifestyle magazine for nurses launched last week with articles about the nurse practitioner job market, Lenny Kravitz's role as a nurse in the movie "Precious" and scrubs fashion. That's right, these medical professionals are moving beyond the unadorned uniform to "mock-wrap" scrub tops and cardigan scrub jackets in a variety of colors and prints. (Learn more in the article "What Scrubs Style Is Best for Your Body?") Online, the magazine's most-viewed article so far is a list of 10 things to never say to a nurse, including asking for medications, asking if he or she dates only doctors and -- the No. 1 most obnoxious item -- asking, "Why didn't you become a doctor?" The print magazine, edited by Elle and Mademoiselle alumna Catherine Ettlinger, is available for sale in nursing apparel stores; the content is free at http:/
COPING WITH PAIN
Another weighty topic
PastaQueen.com
Jennette Fulda is a weight-loss blogger and author from Indianapolis who says she came into this world at 8 pounds 5 ounces and came close to leaving it 25 years later at 372 pounds. She has maintained her blog, PastaQueen.com, since 2003 and her dramatic weight loss since 2007. In 2008, Fulda wrote a book about losing half her body weight called "Half-Assed," which she says is "hilarious, inspirational and good for killing large insects." After five years of blogging about body image, exercise, nutrition and weight-loss issues, Fulda opened up PastaQueen.com to all topics, and lately she has covered her new health challenge: chronic pain, in the form of a headache that started in February 2008 and hasn't let up since.It's the topic of her forthcoming second memoir, tentatively called "Chocolate and Vicodin: And Other Failed Cures for the Headache That Wouldn't Go Away."
-- Rachel Saslow
