mens sana OR corpore sano

The title of this posting just goes to show that jargon is not English:

• If you're a geek, OR returns results which contain both terms used.
  
• If you're a nurse or some similar creature, OR means the echo-ey room where you help surgeons cut people up and stitch, splice, or glue them back together.
  
• In English, this title means you can have either a healthy mind OR a healthy body, but not both.
  

Pick your favorite flavor.

Whenever I get together with friends or former colleagues (nurses, doctors, paramedics, EMT's, and their ilk), we inevitably start trading war stories. Recently, 3 of us were overhead in the Capitola Book Cafe by a couple of people sitting nearby. At one point, one of our neighbors turned around and said, "I don't mean to eavesdrop, but you guys are hysterical!"

The three of us promptly vowed to write a book one day, which would differ from blogging mainly in having stories related to vomit, large globs of mucus, or excreta in unseemly amounts relegated to a separate section.

Here, the stories will get posted as they come up. If you have tender sensibilities, consider yourself warned.