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R.E. Hengsterman is a registered nurse, medical writer, Pushcart Prize–nominated, award-winning fiction writer, and educator with more than three decades of experience in healthcare. Author of the Shift Workers Paradox @ nursewhowrites.com
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 1d
Sign of the day…
Vaccines cause adults not autism
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“Root cause” was never a wellness invention—it’s the foundation of medicine itself. #rootcause #functionalnurse #nursing #TheNurseWhoWrites #NurseWriters #NurseAuthor
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The Hijacking of “Root Cause”: How Social Media Turned a Medical Principle into a Hashtag
Scroll through your feed and you’ll see it everywhere: wellness influencers, supplement brands, and self-styled “functional practitioners” promising to “address the root cause.” The phrase has become ...
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"Your Only Fan" by R.E. Hengsterman — Across The Margin
"Your Only Fan" by R.E. Hengsterman — Across The Margin
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This book lives in the soft rot between memory and mercy—where grief hums through the walls and the past won’t stay buried.

Stories for those who know small towns carry ghosts.
Stories for those who grew up watching someone disappear by degrees.
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When Nursing Becomes a Brand: Ethics, Crowds, and Commerce
There was a time when nurses didn’t need a “personal brand.” The work was the identity. The uniform, the license, the oath—all spoke for themselves.But scroll through social media in 2025, and you’ll ...
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The Cost of Linguistic Drift
Somewhere along the pandemic timeline, the word “vaccine” lost its footing — replaced by a single, punchy syllable: jab.The term isn’t new. In the U.K., “jab” has been shorthand for “injection” since ...
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The Rise of the Functional Nurse: When Healing Turns Inward
It often starts with a personal health crisis.A nurse—burned out, disillusioned, or broken by a system that rewards resilience over recovery—steps away from the bedside. After years of twelve-hour shi...
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We’re All Fallible — Why This Moment Calls for Grace and Accountability
A headline rolled through my feed this week: a nurse who’d been honored for extraordinary bedside care is now out of a job after allegedly telling officers during a DWI stop, “I’ll let you die” — and ...
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When Science Meets Facebook: The Myth of Seeing “Heavy Metals” in Someone’s Eyes
This week, a post slid through my feed—the kind that makes you pause somewhere between disbelief and despair. A self-described “concerned citizen” claimed to have witnessed a healthcare worker receivi...
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