Many years ago I joined forces with Dr. Iden, who had been practicing in the small town (pop. 3000) of Berryville, Virginia. He had been practicing over 40 yeas at the age of 70. The office was a wonderful relic of the “golden Age” of medicine. A true PCMH…..The staff knew everyone, there were no appointments except for physicals. If the waiting room was full in the morning you came back after lunch. If you were too sick to come…
Paulina Miklosz, nurse practitioner at CHC of New Britain, remembers the first time she came to the clinic in 1997. “I was eight years old,” said Miklosz, whose family had just emigrated from Poland. She remembers the receptionist who spoke to her in Polish, the nurse who also spoke Polish and the translator who helped her communicate with pediatrician Robert Dudley during the physical exam. “It was so reassuring to hear someone speaking our language,” said Miklosz. Miklosz was drawn…
Leah Lucarelli found her career in fifth grade, while helping her pediatrician aunt in the office during school vacations. “She let me take height and weight measurements, and I fell in love with primary care for kids.” As nurse practitioner for CHC’s school-based health care program, she cares for youngsters in Macdonough elementary and Keigwin middle schools. “My role is to help my patients stay healthy and stay in school. I love teaching them about their heath and taking care…
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Robert Blendon, Director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health about health opinions that will challenge the Trump administration in establishing health policy. Dr. Blendon discusses how differing opinions regarding health care will shape the administration’s health policy agenda moving forward.
During her junior year as a pre-med major at Tufts University near Boston, Mary Blankson realized she didn’t really want to be a doctor. She met with an advisor and researched other opportunities found being a Family Nurse Practitioner really stood out to her. Upon graduation from Tufts, Mary was accepted into Yale University’s Graduate Entry Pre-Specialty Nursing Program on the Family Nurse Practitioner Track. When the time came to begin applying for nursing jobs, a classmate who was applying…
Nicole Seagriff knew in high school that she wanted to be a nurse like the one who cared for and comforted her mother during treatment for breast cancer. When she got her nursing degree from Boston College, she went to work as a nurse in the intensive care unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital, caring for critically ill patients. “My patients were suffering from complications of high blood pressure, such as a heart attack or stroke. They were losing limbs from…