Health for Life
Your Health. Your Questions. Answers You Can Understand.
Welcome to Health for Life, the TotalWellCoach blog. Explore evidence-informed articles, practical ideas, and clear-eyed perspectives on prevention, public health, healthy aging, nutrition, fatigue, sleep, metabolic health, emotional well-being, supplements, and understanding your health.
Written by Joyce Strong, RN, BSN, to help you make sense of health information, ask better questions, and take a more confident role in your own care.
Health for Life: When the Healthcare System Refuses to Recognize What You Know
Why can military medics provide complex care during military service yet struggle to use their experience in civilian hospitals? Joyce Strong, RN, explores Massachusetts' new Military to Medicine proposal and the larger problem of how American healthcare values credentials, competence, clinical experience, and professional authority.