Wayne Wood
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March 17, 2021
Buttons demonstrate wearers’ pronoun use
The VUMC Office of Diversity Affairs is making available buttons that employees and students can wear telling what pronouns the wearer uses, or, in one case, a conversation starter that simply says “Ask me about my pronouns!” -
March 12, 2021
Tears of joy, tears of sorrow — College sweethearts, a COVID unit wedding, and a love story that ended too soon
The inside story of how VUMC's COVID unit staff pulled together to arrange a wedding, and a reminder that not every love story has a happy ending -
February 22, 2021
Winter storm brings snowy vistas to VUMC
Photographs by Donn Jones -
February 15, 2021
Patients’ stories motivate Lizzie Simonds, the only paramedic working in VUMC’s COVID unit
She remembers one man who was scared and couldn't rest: “I spent 45 minutes…sitting next to him, holding his hand so he felt safe enough to try to sleep for a little bit." -
January 8, 2021
It’s a terrible idea to flush “flushable” wipes
Throw them in the trash. Your plumbing will thank you. So will the Medical Center's. -
December 28, 2020
The young woman was on the parking lot pavement without a pulse. A Vanderbilt nurse saved her life.
Keith Caldwell, a nurse at the Vanderbilt Health Clinic at Walgreens, called on years of experience to perform CPR until an ambulance arrived