It has been almost two years now since I graduated school and became a respiratory therapist. Which means it has been almost two years since I have studied something with the goal of testing towards an advancement in my education/career/life. It seems like a disproportionately large amount of my life thus far has been spent in an effort to obtain ...

I would say I am a pretty easy-going guy who gets along with pretty much everyone I work with, but it is nearly impossible to like everyone on a personal level all the time. As a medical professional I sometimes find myself working side by side on a patient with someone that, outside of work, I couldn't stand to be within three feet of. It can be ...

''I'm pretty sure I'll be off early tonight,'' I said to my wife, ''not a whole lot on the floor ... should be home by six.'' In fact, I didn't get home until two in the morning ... one code and one stat C-section after uttering those 20 words sealed my fate. My wife, being the nurse that she is (and nurses being the superstitious bunch that they ...

It's summer and all I can think about is school: finishing my summer clinicals, registering for fall classes, finding ways to pay for tuition, praying my clinical sites are nearby, figuring out a study schedule that lets me work (and occasionally sleep). It's quite a difference from just a few years ago when I was so bored in my spare time that I ...

0600:  TODAY, I make my stand and hit the H& R Block full force to retake the Written Registry and Clinical Sims that I failed by one point last month. I tell myself that today will be different. I tell myself that this time, someone WILL be at the testing center and I will not be making this trip for nothing like I did ...

So my Uncle Remus said to me the other day, ''Hey kid, I got this rash on my thigh that won't go away ... you're in medicine, would you mind taking a look at it?'' ''Well Remus,'' I said, ''I am going to school to be a respiratory therapist, I am actually still a student...'' ''Oh,'' said Remus, ''well could you take a look at it anyway?'' I ...

I was raised in a family that valued philanthropy and giving back to the community. Growing up, I watched both of my parents volunteer with various organizations and for years my father got up at 4:30 every weekend morning to cook breakfast at the local soup kitchen.As a member of the health care field, I believe that we have a responsibility to ...