When we are graduating high school, we all have an idea of what direction our life will take in the following years. Our imagination may run from going into business, entering college, or getting a great job. We imagine all the things we will be able to buy with the money we will get from […]
Read more "Amazing Journey"I have worked in the Operating Room for 25 years now, doing Anesthesia. It has been a great profession, even though more and more bureaucratic agencies are getting their fingers in the pie over the past few years. We have agencies claiming to develop great solutions for problems in Anesthesia that don’t exist. Imagine that. […]
Read more "Scarred"I am now old. 60 years old. By the time a person gets to this stage in life they have seen how things got to where they are now, if they have a functioning brain. I have seen many changes in health care. I have been a Registered Nurse 31 years, and a Certified Registered […]
Read more "Reduced Efficiency"No one in my family has ever written a book, or ever had one published. I am the first. I have had so many blessings in my life, and one of them is a career in Anesthesia that has been going on for 2 decades and counting now. As I look forward to retiring in […]
Read more "Writing"A few years back, I started a job that was very stressful. The way Anesthesia was practiced was very different than what I was used to in the 20 years I had practiced before. The very first month I did a spinal for a C-section for a very nice, but stressed out young couple having […]
Read more "Right Place, Right Time"I once worked at a hospital where the nurses on the floors would start IVs for patients headed to surgery. If they had trouble getting an IV, they would keep on trying until they had trashed or blown every vein the patient had before quitting and sending the patient to the OR. The patients they […]
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