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Editor's Opinion: Lists help you choose your next travel nurse assignment
A fascination with lists
Nov 1, 2009
By: Steve Mullett
Healthcare Traveler


Steve Mullett
Here at Healthcare Traveler, we're a little bit obsessed with lists. Everyone makes lists—you probably make shopping lists all the time, for example. We have our mailing lists, our subscriber list, our list of advertisers, our list of freelance writers, and so on and so on. For that matter, the table of contents we run every month is a kind of list, too.

You can find lists almost anywhere you look. David Letterman has his nightly top 10 list; the FBI has its most-wanted list; and there are the popular online "list" sites that bear the first names of their founders, Craig and Angie.

It's been well established that people like lists. David Wallechinsky's first Book of Lists was released in 1977, with several updates, each containing lists of esoteric things such as people suspected of being "Jack the Ripper," famous events that happened in the bathtub, and recorded instances of spontaneous human combustion. It still sells pretty well. Other authors have followed Wallechinsky's lead, and a recent http://Amazon.com/ search for "book of lists" returned more than 122,000 results. You could make a book out of listing books of lists! That might be interesting to look at, if not terribly useful.

In this month's issue, our goal is to provide you with some lists you can actually use. We hope you, as travelers and healthcare professionals, can benefit from a few lists we found in other places. We have lists about places to live, such as Money magazine's list of best small cities or Forbes' list of best cities for singles; lists covering places to visit, like Time's list of places with the best regional theater or the Travel Channel's list of best beaches for families; and healthcare-specific lists, including U.S. News' list of best hospitals in the country and the top health-related companies on the Inc. 5000 list.

Maybe these lists will help you decide where to go for your next assignment, or at least where to go on your next vacation. Or maybe not. Either way, we hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed seeking them out and putting them together.




Steve Mullett
Editor-in-Chief
smullett@advanstar.com

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Steve Mullett

Steve Mullett is Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Traveler magazine. Articles by Steve Mullett

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