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52 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
43 episodes
since March 23, 2024
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Skid Road

In this first episode of my Skid Road podcast, I introduce listeners to the situation of health and homelessness in my hometown of Seattle.

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On March 8, 2024, I sat down with Tamara Bauman to discuss her work, experiences, and perspectives on homelessness, domestic violence, and frontline staff burnout.
I first worked with Casey Trupin soon after I moved to Seattle almost thirty-two years ago. At the time, I was working on applied policy research on improving access to health care for teens and young adults experiencing homelessness (while working as a nurse practitioner providing primary health c…
Dr. Michael Copass, Seattle native, neurologist, Vietnam Army veteran/physician, and long-time head of the Harborview Medical Center's Emergency Department, is a living legend in the Seattle area and in emergency medicine in our country. On July 26, 2015, I traveled to Sequim, Washington, to the ho…
Social worker Krystal Koop talked with me about her lived experience of homelessness as a young teenager, her work in homelessness, harm reduction, and criminal justice. Krystal helped start the University District Street Medicine Project (UDSM), a University of Washington interprofessional student…
On June 24, 2022, I sat down with Noah Fey, director of the Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) Housing Programs, at the DESC building in Pioneer Square. We discussed his work, first as a volunteer at DESC, then as an outreach worker, and now in DESC administration overseeing all of their vari…
In honor of National Nurses Week, I want to highlight interviews I've done with some amazing nurses working on health and homelessness issues in the Seattle area. I had the pleasure of working with Eric Seitz, RN, when he was completing his BSN nursing degree at the University of Washington. He was…
This past week, I had the pleasure of sitting down with public health nurse Jody Rauch to talk about her work as a direct-service public health nurse and a policy/systems change advocate for people experiencing (or, as she says, "surviving") homelessness. She talks about the path that led her to he…
"I never took other people's situations as my own. In a sense, I've always been able to maintain a certain level of detachment. I think it's unfair to usurp the pain of other people's existence--it's theirs--and me crying about it isn't gonna make much difference." Longtime public health nurse…
I have had the pleasure of working with amazing people in the various Healthcare for the Homeless community clinics over the four decades of my career as a public health nurse/family nurse practitioner. Physician Assistant and former military nurse Mark Aytch is one of these people. Especially on t…
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