Blimi Marcus

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Sep 2, 2021, 11:15 AM

Until it was his time to die

(CDC photo via Unsplash)

How a needle phobia surely saved my patient's life, though it couldn't protect him from cancer

Oct 9, 2020, 9:52 AM

Defiance and rampant desecration of God’s name in my Brooklyn neighborhood

Torn signs that had warned against the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic, posted on a wall in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, on October 7, 2020. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Orthodox leadership could have encouraged my community to take the rules seriously and keep our loved ones safe. They failed... and worse

Mar 31, 2020, 5:51 PM

Nurses are stepping in to say Shema with the patients

Scenes from my day as a nurse on the frontlines of COVID-19 in New York: Asked to lay tefillin on a patient; downloading the Vidui prayer; crying

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About Me

Blimi Marcus is an oncology nurse practitioner and professor of nursing at Hunter College.