I am an emergency medicine physician. I work 12-hour shifts at a Level II trauma center, often nights, often standing for most of those hours on hard linoleum floors. I am 46 years old, and the accumulation of shift work,…
I spent 24 years as an operating room nurse, and in that time I developed an occupational relationship with toenail fungus that I would not wish on anyone. Hours in rubber-soled clogs on hard floors, constant moisture, shared locker rooms…
I spent 24 years as an operating room nurse and developed the occupational hazard that affects a significant proportion of nursing professionals: type 2 diabetes. It arrived quietly at 51, managed well with metformin and lifestyle changes, and I had…