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Author: K. Richard Douglas
Sometimes the biggest challenge in starting a HTM career has nothing to do with comprehending electronics training or memorizing anatomy. “My biggest challenge was when I was a student, all of my technology books were in English.
Maintaining 75,000 assets isn’t easy; it takes a whole bunch of technicians, imaging engineers, administrative help…
How many times have you heard somebody lament; “I wish I knew then what I know now”? Benjamin Franklin may have said it best when he said; “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
Having the opportunity to say that you work for the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System might seem like reward enough. But, when Pacific Medical ran a contest looking for the most interesting biomed, and after receiving hundreds of entries, they chose Laurent La Brie, MBA, MSBME, a clinical engineer with the facilities department at Johns Hopkins, La Brie had a new title to tout.
Most hospitals have to be run like businesses with a constant eye on the numbers and that has become more critical in the past few years. Budgets are impacted by new constraints and subjected to penalties that can be substantial.
More than 110 years ago, a hospital was born in downtown Los Angeles in a two-story house. Founded by the Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Southern California Conference of the Methodist Church, the little hospital grew.
What happens when another day on the job is not just another day? While no two days are ever exactly the same for an HTM professional, what do you do when life throws you a curve ball? What do you do when you are removed from your comfort zone; when a disaster or tragedy strikes and you need to step up and handle the unexpected? There are those who have gone before you. Their story is one of resolve, learning on the fly, resourcefulness and courage.
“Go west young man” paraphrased the words of newspaper editor Horace Greeley from a biography about him in an issue of the New Yorker newspaper from 1838. The quote was later thought to be Greeley’s endorsement of the 1849 gold rush. He had visited Colorado and tried panning for gold himself.
Sometimes your spouse is right and you should pay attention. Some people actually heed their spouse’s suggestions and that was the case with one HTM professional in Dallas.
