"after all, I'm a nurse - when you're a patient, you want obsessive" 

“Doctors heal you and nurses keep you alive.”

Keep teching. I'm always delighted to see you (and others) continue to disprove the outmoded stereotype that technology is an exclusively male domain.

I seem to recall that photography was dismissed by "traditional" artists and digital art wasn't greeted all that warmly either.  Since they probably stem from different sides of the brain, it's not surprising that art and science sometimes make uncomfortable bedfellows, but they each seek to find truth in their own way. Or, as some pointy eared guy said,

"The glory of creation is in it's infinite diversity and the ways our differences combine to create meaning and beauty."  Let the church say Amen.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken