Weddings are always rich in symbolism, but one I attended on a sunny afternoon recently carried far more than usual.
You can’t take it with
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 24, 2018
Not every long-term care job description comes with the opportunity, or curse, to work after hours. Harried nurses can’t exactly carry a resident home and finish the job on the weekend, for instance...
Conventional wisdom
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 05, 2015
It’s long-term care convention season again. You can feel it in the air. Strange, troublesome urges start to take over.
Zen gardening for LTC
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 04, 2015
Here’s my naïve and rather radical gardening philosophy — it should be an act of joy, not stress or fear. But another striving human I know, along with a few people I’ve met in long-term...
A miracle of reflection
By
Gary Tetz
Apr 01, 2014
Sometimes in business — and particularly in the long-term care business — it can be useful to see things from a fresh, unexpected perspective.
Signs of the season
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 05, 2016
Once again, our planet completed its 584-trillion-mile encirclement of the sun and safely brought us back to October/November and two things that matter most — LTC conventions and baseball.
When silence is golden
By
Gary Tetz
May 08, 2015
We don’t have crickets in long-term care, but we should. They’re very soothing insects. Experts on Crickipedia maintain that they actually emit four different sounds — a calling song, an...
Planting the seeds
By
Gary Tetz
Jun 01, 2012
For the first time in years, I have dirt under my nails. No, I’m not confessing a personal hygiene problem. I’ve simply become a gardener. Again.
Lose the bad attitude
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 01, 2012
If blatant displays of disinterested hostility were an Olympic event, I know a nurse who would have taken the gold — and maybe the silver and bronze as well.
Jumper cables and stethoscopes
By
Gary Tetz
Jul 14, 2016
After posing questions ever since the bitter childhood discovery that I would never be an astronaut or Bobby Orr, I finally got my answer this week. Why do I exist? To be the guy with jumper cables.