When I was going to medical school, I had big dreams about how exciting my life as a surgeon was going to be. I imagined that it was always going to be fast paced and that I would always be called on to make split second decisions that would mean a difference between life and [...]

 
When my friend Julianne told me that she was getting her degree in something called "medical billing and coding", my first thought was to wonder what that was. My next thought was to worry that she wouldn’t be able to get a job. See, Julianne has always been kind of like a little sister to [...]

There are a lot of health care colleges out there to choose from.  A lot of selection always makes a decision especially hard — but it’s even worse now, because we know that not all schools are really worth the money you pay for them.  (And boy, do you pay a lot, with tuition costs [...]

I’ve been babysitting since I was 11, and teaching preschool and after school programs since I was 16.  It always makes me feel really old to see kids I used to teach way back when, now all grown up and going to college.
I recently ran into the mother of two boys I used to babysit [...]

Although reliable statistics are hard to come by, there is definitely a prevalence of cocaine addiction in teens compared to decades ago. One of the reasons for this is that cocaine is simply more accessible these days and more teens are therefore able to experiment with it. Since most teens do not have a good concept of [...]