Tina is joined by Sara and Amie of Gritty Nurse podcast to tell about a self-made caregiver who looked after a WBA welterweight boxer after becoming paralyzed from a motorcycle accident. Thomas Dunkley took matters into his own hands after claiming he was bullied and verbally abused by Shaun Cummins, a local legend known as "The Governor". The show concludes with the story of Kofoworola Abeni Pratt, the first black National Health Service nurse who went against her family's wishes to pursue her love for nursing.

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This week Tina is honored to be joined by talented poet and nurse Piers Harrison-Reid from the United Kingdom. Piers is an A&E nurse and has had his poetry featured by the BBC. Piers tackles difficult subjects in his poetry like racism and mental health issues. Piers helps Tina tell the gruesome and horrifying story of Thomas Dunkley, a caregiver in the UK who took care of former boxer Shaun Cummins. Shaun was badly injured in a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. They close the show with Piers performing one of his poems encouraging health care students. Listen all the way to the end to hear a second performance of one of Piers's poems that deals with mental health issues.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10693382/

https://piersthepoet.co.uk/love-is-for-the-brave-nhs70/

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-44698462

This week Tina teams up again with Mike with Simple Nursing to tell the story of a corrupt medical examiner who was part of a grander scheme of corruption that led all the way to the governor's mansion to cover up what really happened to  "the boys on the tracks". Our good "doctor" story experimented on dogs to develop an open heart surgery to repair an otherwise fatal condition known as "Tetralogy of Fallot".

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https://unsolved.com/gallery/don-henry-kevin-ives/

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/06/19/the-remarkable-story-of-vivien-thomas-the-black-man-who-helped-invent-heart-surgery/

This week Tina is joined by Michael with the Real Talk School of Nursing podcast. Together they tell the story of the Heaven's Gate cult. This group was started by a nurse and her boyfriend in the 1970s. The group made headlines in the 1990s after they became convinced that an alien space ship was coming to Earth traveling behind the comet Hale-Bopp. The details of this story are so unbelievable it seems like science fiction. They close the show with the inspirational story of the first male military nurse who also happened to be Black. 

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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/heavens-gate-cult-members-found-dead

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Heavens-Gate-religious-group

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/col-lawrence-washington

This week Mike with Simple Nursing is back to co-host with Tina. Together they tell the story of a chiropractor who did some very despicable things in order to get out of paying 4,000 a month for alimony. The chiropractor story gets them talking about a high profile story of a Snap Chat model who suffered a stroke after going to a chiropractor. They close the show with a wonderful story of two doctors who wrote a children's book to help children understand COVID-19. 

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https://newsroom.uvahealth.com/2020/05/20/uva-doctors-honored-for-covid-19-childrens-book/

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2000-12-02-0012020286-story.html

This week Mike with Simple Nursing is back to co-host another episode. Together he and Tina tell the story of a chiropractor from Florida who decided he didn’t like the 4,000 per month alimony he was ordered to pay after his divorce was final. As a side note, they discuss a high-profile case of a famous model who suffered a stroke after having a neck adjustment. Was her stroke caused by the adjustment? They close the show with a heartwarming story of two doctors who wrote a children’s book to help children of color from areas hit hard by COVID-19 to have a better understanding of the pandemic.

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Credits

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2000-12-02-0012020286-story.html

https://newsroom.uvahealth.com/2020/05/20/uva-doctors-honored-for-covid-19-childrens-book/

This week Tina is once again joined by fellow nursing podcaster Chelsea with Deuso Dishes Crime Podcast. Together they tell the incredibly tragic story of Selena, the singer from Texas who was the sweetheart of Tejano music. Selena was the victim of a crazed fan who managed to become president of Selena's fan club and even ran her boutique business. They close the show with the story of a sweet nurse from Connecticut who just happened to have the courage to become the first Black nurse in the hospital where she was hired over 30 years ago.

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https://www.biography.com/musician/selena

http://connecticut.news12.com/story/39919943/woman-honored-for-work-as-nurse-during-black-history-month-event

This week to celebrate the 100th episode of Good Nurse Bad Nurse Tina and Kiki will have a bonus discussion at the end of the episode about New Grads! But first, they discuss the absolutely horrifying story of a psych nurse who was suffering from mental illness himself and spent years tormenting his coworkers. Denis Czajkowski became so paranoid of his coworkers and his boss in particular that it eventually lead to him going back to the hospital where he was fired and holding two women hostage for two days. The good nurse story is about an amazing and courageous woman who didn't like the military's policy of having a limit of how many black nurses were allowed to serve..so she did something about it. They close the show with a special 30 minute discussion dedicated to new grads! Be sure and let us know what you think!

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/standoff-ends-in-death/

http://ojin.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/AboutANA/Honoring-Nurses/NationalAwardsProgram/HallofFame/19962000Inductees/stauperm5584.html

This week Q the Nurse is back to join Tina in telling the story of Dr. Charles Friedgood. Friedgood was a doctor who spent his whole life manipulating people to get what he wanted. Just when you think he couldn't get any more despicable, he does something else until he finally does something so egregious even he couldn't get away with it. They close the show with the story of Dr. James McCune Smith, who was the first Black man to hold a medical degree in America.

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Credits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcvMdrFdMak

https://www.nyhistory.org/web/africanfreeschool/bios/james-mccune-smith.html

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/51/327/2496965/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/nyregion/dr-charles-friedgood-dead.html

Kiki is back once again to co-host with Tina. Together they tell the incredibly disturbing story of Cathy Wood and Gwendolyn Graham. Cathy and Gwendolyn were two nurse techs who had some horrific games they liked to play together that involved the elderly patients they were supposed to be caring for at the the nursing home where they worked together. They close the show with a different kind of good nurse story. Our good nurse this week had the courage to stand up to a patient who requested to not have a black nurse caring for her. Teoka Williams was working as a bedside nurse when a patient complained about having a black nurse. When Ms. Williams complained about the incident she was reassigned to a different patient and was told the patient had the right to refuse care for whatever reason.