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Multiply My Hands: The Life of Dr. Richard Smith

A MEDEX Magazine Series

Chapter Eight: The Birth of MEDEX Northwest, Part Two

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

Alumni Spotlight: The Impact of Mike Carter, PA-C
March 18, 2026

For our inaugural entry of the Alumni Spotlight series, Tacoma faculty member and MEDEX Alumni lead Jannelle Fukuji sat down with Mike Carter, PA-C, of MEDEX Tacoma Class 1, whose career reflects the full scope of the PA profession across clinical practice, leadership, education, and mentorship.

Alumni Features

Good Things Happen: An Interview with Lois Thetford, PA-C Upon Her Retirement
January 27, 2026

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 [...]

African American leaders march down Jefferson Street at the head of a group of 3,000 demonstrators April 19, 1960, and head toward City Hall on the day of the Z. Alexander Looby bombing. In the first row are the Rev. C.T. Vivian, left, Diane Nash of Fisk University, and Bernard Lafayette of American Baptist Seminary. In the second row are Kenneth Frazier and Curtis Murphy of Tennessee A&I, and Rodney Powell of Meharry. In the third row is the Rev. James Lawson, one of the advisors to the students. Jack Corn / File / The Tennessean

Features Historical

MLK Day: Honoring Richard Smith and Rodney Powell’s Healthcare Legacy
January 19, 2026

“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 [...]