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Don’t Know What You Want Your Project to Be?

Write down what you don’t want it to be.

After a few years working as a radiologist, Steven N. Meyers was curious what would happen if he took X-ray photographs of flowers.

In her book Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not, Florence Nightingale writes that nursing is not about being a servant or about diagnosing or “physicking” (dispensing medicine) without a doctor’s instructions. To nurse, she writes, “is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him,” and to be “a careful observer and a clear reporter.”