A MEDEX Magazine Series
Seattle 1969. Seated with the newly formed MEDEX Northwest team under the insistent fluorescent lights of a small conference room, Richard Smith stared at the stack of applications on the table before him. Eighty men had responded to their outreach efforts at military installations across the country. Eighty veterans looking to translate their battlefield medical skills into civilian careers. So many lives, he thought, so many stories. How do we choose?
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Alumni Features
MEDEX Magazine sat down with long-time MEDEX Northwest faculty member Lois Thetford on the eve of her retirement from MEDEX. Lois was also a couple of weeks away from celebrating her 80th birthday, though you would never have known it if judging by the level of energy [...]
Features Historical
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. posed this challenge in Montgomery, Alabama in 1957, he called for dedicated service to humanity. This spirit of service would find powerful expression at MEDEX Northwest through founder [...]
Features Veterans
In recognition of Veterans Day 2025, Nicholas Stanton, a recent graduate of MEDEX Northwest Seattle Class 57 and a U.S. Air Force veteran, shares thoughts on his work as chair of the Washington Academy of PAs (WAPA) Veteran’s Committee.
