by Paul Quinn | Mar 30, 2023 | Asking - Empowerment, Asking - Relationships, Uncategorized
In her earliest memory of life in Poland, Ida Paluch was three years old when she, her twin brother, Adam, and older sister, Gienia, witnessed a woman, mad with fear, jump from a building to her death to escape forced relocation and inevitable murder by the Nazis. The...
by Paul Quinn | Jun 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Emergency rooms are not safe places to make assumptions. That’s why nurses who are unafraid to ask questions can significantly improve the health outcomes for their patients. Elizabeth Even, MSN, RN, CEN, is an emergency department nurse at Northwestern Memorial...
by Paul Quinn | Mar 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
More than anything, Raven Anne Lucas wanted to be a healer. A career in massage therapy beckoned. Though she and her husband were employed, a mortgage and high school-aged child made challenging the $3,000 down payment for massage school. Even so, Raven Anne figured...
by Paul Quinn | Mar 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Once, when a flight attendant offered me a bag of peanuts, I asked for two. The passengers next to me, a couple in their thirties, turned their heads in my direction, eyebrows lifted, as if I’d asked for the entire snack cart. Their heads whipped back to the flight...