'Surgery' Category
The Nurse takes on a freelance copywriter
Website copywriting isn’t as easy as it looks!
The Nurse has always believed that she can turn her formidably capable hand to almost anything. After all, she taught herself trepanning from scratch. Painstaking practice, as well as giving herself permission to make mistakes in the interest of medical advancement, have been instrumental in her success as an amateur brain […]A Hole in the Head
Trepanning: the ultimate body jewellery
The Nurse presents the case for trepanning yourself into fashion history
Having spent a few days chilling in solitary confinement The Nurse is feeling considerably less viputerative. That’s better. While drifting calmly in her drug-cosy haze, she mused upon her past. The incidents, accidents and triumphs enjoyed over decades of surrepticious, deliciously amateur brain surgery. Ah, […]
Home surgery tips from The Nurse
Believe home surgery’s out of your financial reach? Think again, says The Nurse
Today’s brain surgery relies on an impressive range of tiny, weeny instruments, finely-controlled tools and high tech medical innovations. But in the early days - to me the good old days - impecunious founder Members had only their ingenuity and imagination to rely upon when transforming a gardener’s shed into a state of […]History of Brain Surgery
It is a little known fact that brain surgery is one of the oldest forms of medical practice, for which there is plenty of evidence. Remains indicate that brain surgery was practiced as far back as the late Stone Age period. Pre-Incan civilisation used brain surgery as much as 2000 years B.C. and evidence indicates […]