The best way to cook asparagus is to wrap it in bacon and then brown it up quickly in a good pan. It makes people happy.
If a patient appears to be a "hard stick," that is to say someone with veins which are difficult to access with intravenous catheters, I sometimes wrap their arm in a microwaved warm moist towel before insertion. It provides distraction, softens the skin, and sometimes even seems to dilate the veins a little.
If your cooking is troubled by dry chicken breasts, cook them on the bone. Or on the whole bird. It's cheaper and it tastes a lot better. There was a contestant on Top Chef who could take down a chicken in a minute flat. Very handy, that.
Practice with a metronome. Then practice without it.
I like to coat food items with things other than the usual breadcrumbs or batter. A second coffee grinder is good for processing nuts or cereals into a coating for fish, vegetables, burgers, or whatever.
In my years of nursing I've come to believe that men who enjoy performing cunninglus are the best for placing urinary Foley catheters in women, even the really big fat ladies. Especially those.
None of this stuff has anything to do with tonight's political debate between Barack Obama and John McCain. The same goes for just about everything the television pundits said about it afterwards.
But they get paid for that. To be irrelevant.
