that degree of commitment to patients happens not just during overwhelming newsworthy tragedies but in every hospital every minute of the day for whose life hasnt been touched by a nurse i am a nurse when we meditate we try to connect to that inner peace and serenity that transcends thought for me its a type of stillness that feels like i am completely connected to timelessness and that there is no beginning or end it just is but why does that feeling have to be so temporary or elusive how to be in the moment patients come into doctors offices asking for something theyve seen on tv big pharmas advertising blitz coupled with its aggressive marketing to physicians who all too often are readily seduced to prescribe results in the everincreasing number of prescriptions offered to patients medication nation