Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. May 12th is International Nurses Day and so we celebrate the mother of modern nursing, who was born that day in 1820. Yes Florence Nightingale had a fascinating life: her care and compassion was combined with incredible observational skill and a solid understanding of statistics. The impact she would later have was formed in the crucible of the Crimean War and her work in the hospitals there.

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. May 12th is International Nurses Day and so we celebrate the mother of modern nursing, who was born that day in 1820. Yes Florence Nightingale had a fascinating life: her care and compassion was combined with incredible observational skill and a solid understanding of statistics. The impact she would later have was formed in the crucible of the Crimean War and her work in the hospitals there.

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. May 12th is International Nurses Day and so we celebrate the mother of modern nursing, who was born that day in 1820. Yes Florence Nightingale had a fascinating life: her care and compassion was combined with incredible observational&nbsp;skill and a solid understanding of statistics. The impact she would later have was formed in the crucible of the Crimean War and her work in the hospitals there. &nbsp;

Episode 13: Florence Nightingale

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast.
The human body can only go wrong in a certain number of ways, and some of those ways are far more common than others.
In this series of podcasts we will explore those common problems we all could face, how they develop and how we can manage or treat them both at home and with the help of medicine or surgery.

Along the way we will encounter the unusual, the bizarre, as well as exploring medicine from the past and in the future.

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Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. The human body can only go wrong in a certain number of ways, and some of those ways are far more common than others. In this series of podcasts we will explore those common problems we all could face, how they develop and how we can manage or treat them both at home and with the help of medicine or surgery. Along the way we will encounter the unusual, the bizarre, as well as exploring medicine from the past and in the future. Find more at www.HealthHits.info

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