“I’m a doctor and I know that nursing is key to medicine, maybe even at its core. And in Lynn Dow's Nightingale Tales we get to find out from a modest, spunky, liquor-enjoying old nurse what it was like to be a nurse during the past half century. Her tales are short, well-told, and of the good, the bad, and the ugly.”
—Victoria Sweet, MD, author of God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

“A delightful, informative look at nursing through the eyes of Lynn Dow. This book gives us a behind-the-scenes slice of the author’s escapades during her fifty-year career as a nurse, as well as insights into a profession that has leapt from human observation to technology.”
—Laura Deutsch, author of Writing from the Senses