<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1344313054212157684.post3769213753264615195..comments</id><updated>2010-02-19T21:05:37.921-08:00</updated><category term='Travel and Leisure'/><category term='The Overexamined Life'/><category term='Not Necessarily Medicine'/><category term='Of Note'/><category term='The Blogosphere'/><category term='Emergency Medicine'/><category term='Just Funny'/><category term='Medical School'/><category term='Life Outside Medicine'/><category term='Ranting or Raving'/><category term='Concerning Residency'/><category term='Society / Policy / Ethics'/><title type='text'>Comments on constructive procrastination: Atrophy of the Soul</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.noelhastings.org/feeds/3769213753264615195/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1344313054212157684/3769213753264615195/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.noelhastings.org/2010/02/atrophy-of-soul.html'/><author><name>Noel Hastings</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17995585482168059050</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y02xqGnF_bs/TTHh-9UEwSI/AAAAAAAApIM/XWRRhT7WWVU/S220/%253Cuntitled%253E%2B2011-01-14%2B%255B12-09-44%255D.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1344313054212157684.post-3779078517101444069</id><published>2010-02-19T21:05:37.921-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T21:05:37.921-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi girlplusdog,
Don&amp;#39;t let me have too much inf...</title><summary type='text'>Hi girlplusdog,&lt;br /&gt;Don&amp;#39;t let me have too much influence. Nursing education is very different, and besides, you need to follow your heart. This is where my heart led me.... it is just turning out to be a lot harder on me than I realized. I am hoping this is like a model for a marriage though - at first you fall in love, you chase it hard, you have some romance, then things get real which </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1344313054212157684/3769213753264615195/comments/default/3779078517101444069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1344313054212157684/3769213753264615195/comments/default/3779078517101444069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.noelhastings.org/2010/02/atrophy-of-soul.html?showComment=1266642337921#c3779078517101444069' title=''/><author><name>Noel Hastings</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17995585482168059050</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y02xqGnF_bs/S1TwOCFLEyI/AAAAAAAAedM/bLD9xdk5ONU/S220/Desolation+Loop+8-8-2009+6-06-21+PM.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.noelhastings.org/2010/02/atrophy-of-soul.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1344313054212157684.post-3769213753264615195' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1344313054212157684/posts/default/3769213753264615195' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1371882657'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1344313054212157684.post-8368386880344175805</id><published>2010-02-19T20:09:00.769-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T20:09:00.769-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;ve enjoyed reading your blog and it makes me...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;ve enjoyed reading your blog and it makes me wonder whether I really want to make a career change into nursing at 37.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1344313054212157684/3769213753264615195/comments/default/8368386880344175805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1344313054212157684/3769213753264615195/comments/default/8368386880344175805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.noelhastings.org/2010/02/atrophy-of-soul.html?showComment=1266638940769#c8368386880344175805' title=''/><author><name>girlplusdog</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12617131672279854168</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.noelhastings.org/2010/02/atrophy-of-soul.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1344313054212157684.post-3769213753264615195' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1344313054212157684/posts/default/3769213753264615195' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-507517749'/></entry></feed>
