{"id":9935,"date":"2016-12-13T09:25:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/?post_type=post&p=9935"},"modified":"2022-04-04T19:58:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:58:47","slug":"coming-out-the-other-end-surviving-and-thriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/magazine\/2016\/12\/13\/coming-out-the-other-end-surviving-and-thriving\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Out The Other End, Surviving and Thriving"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span>t age 21, Frank Boyd was hospitalized<\/span><\/strong> with a pulmonary embolism, an event that was to change the direction of his life. For the two months of his hospitalization in 2001, he watched and listened as the nurses cared for him. \u201cI started asking them questions,\u201d he says. \u201cAfter that, I knew where my career was. It was in nursing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given that Frank was employed in the constructions trades, the transition to a health profession was unexpected. \u201cIf you knew me before all of this you would never have predicted I\u2019d go into medicine, or to be a nurse in particular. I was not that person.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it was his firsthand experience of being a patient in the hospital that gave him empathy for others going through the medical care system. For nine years, Frank Boyd worked as a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit in the University of Kansas Medical Center.<\/p>\n

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