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- Epilepsy Across a Woman’s Lifespan (HealthyWomen.org)
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71,000 Reasons to Think Twice About Riding E-Scooter (Medical Daily)
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When a Loved One Has Sepsis: A Caregiver’s Guide (Sepsis Alliance)
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Fit to Drive (Good Times)
- Giving Wisely (Good Times, supplement)
- Volunteers Needed! (Good Times, supplement)
- Tattoos: It’s Never Too Late for Body Art (NextAvenue.org)
- Massage Therapy (Costco Connection)
- Brain Cancer: What You Should Know (MSN Lifestyle)
- Researchers Prove Carbon Monoxide Passes Through Walls (HealthDay News)
- 20 Symptoms That Mean You Should See Your Doctor (MSN)
- Right on the Head: JAK Inhibitors May Reverse Hair Loss (CURE)
- Living With Lactose Intolerance (Costco Connection)
- A Sign of the Times: The Changing Treatment Landscape for Advanced Kidney Cancer (CURE Magazine)
- New Take on an Old Problem: Tackling VTE With Biomarkers, Risk Models, and Novel Drugs (Oncology Live)
- Glaucoma: Learn how to preserve your vision (Alive Magazine)
- Benefits of being bilingual in medicine (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA)
- Little-known facts about living in LA (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA)
- Los Angeles food Trucks: Eat your way around LA (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA)
- Optometrist vs. Ophthalmologist: what’s the difference? (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA)
- Trauma surgeons vs. ER docs: What’s the difference? (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA)
- With autism diagnosis on the rise, who cares for autism patients? (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA)
- Moving the Meter on Ovarian Cancer – Cover Story (Oncology Live)
- Gluten free: Necessity or choice? (Costco Connection)
- Sepsis Information Guides (Sepsis Alliance)
- The RAS Chase: Gaining Ground Against the Toughest Oncogene (Oncology Live)
- Compassion Fatigue: How Nurses Can Care for Themselves – Cover Story (Oncology Nursing News)
- I remember Martin (Nursing Evolved: Canadian Healthcare Network)
- Pregnancy and Women with Type 2 Diabetes (Healthgrades.com)
- What People with Fibromyalgia Wish They Could Tell You (HealthGrades.com)
- Young Black Women Have Higher Rates of BRCA Mutation (Targeted Oncology)
- Integrative Healthcare: Caring for the Whole Patient (Oncology Nursing News)
- Coping With the Side Effects of Bipolar Medications (Healthgrades.com)
- Coping With Pain After Breast Surgery (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
- Lung Cancer Patients Respond to Encouragement to Exercise (TheONC)
- What the peanut allergy study really said (tapgenes.com)
- Trapping Gout and Lupus in the Same NET? (Rheumatology Network)
- E2F4 Predictive of Progression and Immunotherapy Efficacy in Bladder Cancer (Targeted Oncology)
- Could elderspeak increase patient non-compliance (Nursing Evolved: Canadian Healthcare Network)
- Carbon Monoxide, A Silent Killer: Are You Safe at Home? (Forbes.com)
- Fibromyalgia – living with a controversial chronic illness (Scope, Stanford Medicine)
- Newsletter sample
- Diabetes-Linked Amputations Declining, Study Finds (HealthDay News)
- Relieving the Caregiving Burden (Women of Influence)
- Effects of the “extra” hour – Shifting to standard time can take its toll (Costco Connection)
- Fitting Your Bra (Alive.com)
- Being a Writer Doesn’t Mean I’m No Longer a Nurse (ASJA)
- Powder Room Confidential (Montreal Home Magazine)
- A Family Affair – Daughters Following In Dad’s Footsteps Into Accounting (JOBBOOM)
- You Don’t Have to Look Sick to Be Sick: Understanding Fibromyalgia
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- CBC.ca
- Health Behavior News Service (HBNS)
- Doctor’s Guide to the Internet
- Medbroadcast.com
- Alive
- Costco Connection
- Women of Influence
- Bold Voices (American Academy of Critical Care Nurses)
- Parkhurst Publishing
- The Canadian Nurse
- Nursing 2013
- The Quilter magazine
Other clients include or have included:
- Sepsis Alliance
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Rheumatology Network
- Memorial Sloan Kettering
- Dialogue Medical
- MediResource.com
- Medical Education Solutions Group
- Rogers Communications
- The Health Initiative
- F. A. Davis Publishers
- Gibson Greeting Cards
Books:
- The American Association of Family Physician’s Essential Guide to Health and Well Being, four years in a row, also translated into Spanish
- Oscar’s Diaries, Life of a Retired Greyhound, available on lulu.com
Other work includes:
Subject matter expert contributor to The Doctors Book of Natural Healing Remedies, by the editors of Prevention (2018)
Clinical image research and art development for on-line nursing textbooks, including Emergency Nursing (Elsevier)
Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications – Third author (“with Special Consideration” – involved researching and writing the exercises available on the book’s accompanying DVD) on Van Leeuwen, Anne M., Poelhuis-Leth, Debra J. Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., c2009. 3rd ed. 9780803618268, 0803618263
Assisted with writing the Emergency Medical Responder manual for the publisher of the American Red Cross. Was responsible for writing several chapters within guidelines provided by the publisher.
Publication of three sections in the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Essential Guide Book.
Blogs
Marijke: nurse turned writer, is a personal blog about health issues in the news, with a bit of freelance writing information thrown in. I don’t update it very often any more, but it still gets many views every day as much of the information is ever green.
Nursing Evolved, part of the Canadian Healthcare Network (Last blog post was February 28, 2017)