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Healthcare Diaries: Tales from the Front The assignment this month is to blog your encounter with the healthcare system.  Sign up and take Vocalo with you to the doctor, the drug store, the billing department, etc. If you work in health care, let Vocalo with you. 

Here are some of the early blogs coming into our hotline: 

Peter says paramedics don't just deal with life and death. The job is also about long hours, lack of respect and coping with down time.  

  

manomed is a 22 year old paramedic and student with Prompt Ambulance Service, a private emergency service based in Highland, Ind. 

" . .another one of my patients was really freaked out about ...getting AIDS" - Kai T.

  

KT sees scared teens and worried mothers as a nurse practitioner with Planned Parenthood in Chicago who also a midwife who delivers babies on the weekends. 

Erin Raether knows being a nurse means sometimes you eat lunch after you go home at night.

  

eeraether is a registered nurse for Erie Family Health Center on the west side of Chicago. They work with uninsured and Medicaid patients.

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