About
RT 101 is a collection of my stories of respiratory therapy and my life in general. I am a respiratory therapist practicing in the Southeastern United States, a fascinating place. The content here consists of stories from the trenches, opinions from the recesses of my brains, and the occasional irrelevant or bizarre link. It may occasionally have an intelligent piece about something relevant to the field–but don’t bank on it.
If you have questions about Respiratory Therapy as a profession, you can either e-mail me at anonymoustherapist at gmail dot com, or you can click here for the AARC’s “Be an RT page.”
And despite what I may occasionally say, being an RT really is an excellent job. You get a lot of opportunities to help people, and sometimes you really will make a difference.
Front page image taken from ExPERT Centre
Just found your site. What a breath of fresh air. Love your musings. One question. I’ve been thinking of starting my own blog on life, love, and fooling around in a large metropolitan hospital. “Doctor Place!” would require residuals to George Carlin; so can I use “Wrath of Glob” as my blog title instead? That just speaks on sooooo many levels. Not just about RT, or hospitals; but my life in general. The job of course is a part of it, and “Wrath of Glob” is such a good fit. LOL
Keep on bloggin’
Do you need to change your geographic reference above now that you’ve moved? Or are you still east of The Big River?
I’m still to the east of the Big River, I’m just further south than I was before.
General,
Did anybody see the “Extreme Makeover, home edition” on Sunday the 9th of December 2007. A home-care provider was suctioning a handicapped 3 year old without gloves or sterile techniques. I wrote the health department in Vermont an Email about it and go no response. Thirty million people seen her add millions of bacteria to the patients airway at least once.
New:
I am inviting everyone to join my user-friendly online web based discussion forum that I am administering:
http://www.respcareforum.com
Feel free to post your policies and procedures/articles/attachments/photos that you want to share with everyone. You can of course also use the forum to generate professional discussion related to respiratory therapy.
Only registered members can view and use the forums. As in this forum, register with your name and email which members will only see.
I hope that it will enhance the discussion about the profession by providing some useful tools to do that.
Peter Szkorla RRT
You can reach me at any of my emails
Just wanted to say that I love your blog and I’ve been reading it for a few months now, it’s definately my favorite on teh interweb. I’m a student Respiratory Therapist and your blog is sometimes inspiring, sometimes thoughtful, and always with a good dose of reality; it kind of gives me something to look forward to and keeps me grounded all at the same time. Keep it up, and thanks for making such an awesome blog!
I love your blog, I work at a small hospital in North East FLorida, they call this area the RED NECK RIVIERA. I come across many of the things that you do, so I can relate. Keep up the great work, it helps the long night go by a little faster and with some humor.
I just wanted to say your blog is my faviort. I find to help keep me grounded on what im trying to do with my life. Thanks for your insight on being a therapist. It really help a lot to make my choise of going for a program in Respiratory Therapy.
Glad you’ve enjoyed it!
Nice real life stories, I have been through few of those myself working in the field for about 4 years. Some are funny and some are inspiration for the things that we do the best, which is make people breath easier.
Thanks for your information. I’m an old lady, you see, all of 36 years old and headed back to school in the fall for RT-after twenty years in another career. Your blog is amusing…but informative…and is really acting to confirm that I’m making the right choice for my future!
Hey there, very nice blog. I kinda found it by accident and it inspired me to start my own blog of respiratory adventures/letdowns etc.