To Immunize or not to Immunize, that is the Question
This question, taken as a play on words from Shakespeare’s’ Hamlet soliloquy “To Be or Not to Be”, is the question many of us are asking...
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
I talk to at least one of my siblings once per week. Every time I talk to one of them, they ask me, “When do you think we can see each...
Life Changes and the New Year
Change, it is the one thing we can count on and if we can’t manage the change in our lives, we get anxious, frustrated, angry and even...
What Does It Mean To Be Patient Centered
What does it mean to deliver patient centered care? I know many of us have seen the NCQA checklist of items we need to mark in order to...
New Year Holiday 2017-2018
The New Year is upon us and as we are working on our year-end reports, we reflect on the past year and we revisit our professional goals...
Suicide Prevention
September is suicide prevention month. We, in West Central Missouri have had a very difficult several years because there has been a...
Customer Service
Customer Service. Not a phrase we hear in the health care industry very often. Oh, we talk about excellent care, high quality care,...
Thank You Nurses
In celebration of Nurses Week, I want to take a moment to reflect on the qualities of a great nurse. Both my mother and my sister are...
Washington DC
Every year in March, I attend the National Association for Community Health Centers (NACHC) conference in Washington, DC. Usually one of...
We Changed Their Dreams
I am reading a new book by historian Thomas J. Ward, Jr. and Jack Gieger, MD. The book, Out in the Rural, published in December, by...
