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Podcast: The Health Design Podcast
Episode: Marijke Vroomen Durning RN, health and medical writer, and avid quilter.
Description: Marijke Vroomen Durning always wanted to be a writer but her teachers and parents didn’t support that choice; they told her to choose something more practical. She became a nurse
As an RN, Marijke literally worked with patients from life to death. Her first job was working with new mothers and their infants on a postpartum ward. One of her last clinical jobs was in a hospice. But Marijke’s dream of writing never left and slowly but surely, she started working on developing that career.
She stopped working clinically in 2009, taking her part-time writing to a successful full-time care...