Comments on: MUST-READ for NURSES! Quite an honor!

By: Jennifer Palmer

Jennifer Palmer — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:37:17 +0000

Diana, as a nurse I couldn’t agree more with the decision to have Outlander as a must read for nurses. Claire being a field nurse in the book and such a good one in Scotland set back in the 18th century put nursing for me into a different perspective. We are so clinical and interventional now, and she did well with what she had. Love it!!

By: Julie Morrow

Julie Morrow — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:30:19 +0000

Diana, one more surgery to go. I am sure so many others have told you how your books enriched their lives, I have no idea why I was drawn to the bookstore on that cold Jan. day after my first surgery but your books have been my guiding light through the last 7. I had to leave all my treasured hardbacks at my house . I was not allowed to take even my Grandmothers 100 yr old bible with me. I am scotch-irish from Eastern Ky. so no giving up allowed. I am eager for my next encounter with Jamie and Claire and wish you all the best during the creative phase. Thank you for responding to my note, I have never ‘blogged’ before , you are very kind and oh so gifted. Julie

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:28:01 +0000

Dear Julie–

Wow, what a story! I’m so glad you discovered the cause!

–Diana

By: Julie Morrow

Julie Morrow — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:25:00 +0000

This series has actually had a major role in saving my life. I discovered the series after my first sinus surgery at John Hopkins in 2006. Several operations and years later in 2010 when no one in medicine could find an accurate diagnosis , I was re -reading again this time about Claire’s surgery and attempts to grow her own Penicillin and I made the decision to put petri dishes out in the office where I worked and in my home. To my complete and utter suprise the dishes at my home were overflowing with positive fungal cultures and penicillium after only 3 days. Turns out I had been living in a toxic mold time bomb.All of my physicans and my physician husband were humbled that through your books I had been able to discover the cause of my illness that had eluded physicians from John Hopkins to South Carolina. What wonderful common sense insight your books provide if people just stop and take the time to read. Thank you Julie M

By: Debbie Givens

Debbie Givens — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:56:10 +0000

I am an OR nurse, herbalist, and a wanna-go-back-in-time-for-my-afterlife kinda gal. Read Outlander in 1993 and haven’t put it down since! (Actually, I wrote a similar version of the book in my head long before it came out but Diana got it on paper first! Damn! ) This is a great series for nurses-honey, maggots and herbs are really healing stuff and we actually use these things in the real world today. Will be really pissed if I peg off before Diana gets to the end…but the wait is damn well worth it! Love these books!

By: Rebecca Van Hout

Rebecca Van Hout — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:34:48 +0000

Your books were one of the reasons I decided to become a nurse

By: Tamara

Tamara — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:28:57 +0000

I’m a RN, and I discovered Outlander while working night shift with my best friend and book sharing buddy, also a RN. She shared Outlander with me. I’ll always associate my first reading of Outlander with the few times of quiet hospital halls, lights down low for patient comfort, and discovering a kindred spirit in Claire. Thank you so much for your work.

By: CasieL RN BSN

CasieL RN BSN — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:36:43 +0000

My most treasured series! First off, I am in love with Jamie but I suppose that goes without saying. My second favorite thing about this series is all of the med-surg “scenes”. It is sooo interesting to me to read how different procedures, medicines, etc. were back in the 1700′s-1800′s before modern technology. The herbal uses and properties are particularly intriguing to me. Thanks Diana! I am so looking forward to Written in My Own Heart’s Blood!

By: annie b

annie b — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:10:12 +0000

Ditto!

By: Wendy S

Wendy S — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:33:38 +0000

It’s killing me waiting for the next book. The romance is wonderful but I’m a huge history buff and love thinking about the US in it’s earliest days and what it must have been like to live in that era, esp. for Claire, Brianna, and Roger who traveled backward.