Notes from ThatGuyNurse: Choose Today, Live Tomorrow

"How do you ensure that your lifetime, the full span of your lifetime, is time spent healthy, active and engaged in the activities of the world?"

Reading this book and applying the basic principles within these covers is an excellent start. This means learning about and understanding the conditions of health. It also means assuming a whole new dimension of personal responsibility and that s where this book comes in.

John Shier is a Registered Nurse with a message...
Following the 1982 cancer death of a close friend, he became a hospice volunteer. For ten years he was engaged in caring for people with terminal illnesses. It was then that he decided to pursue a third career, as a nurse. He returned to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and graduated in 1994, at age sixty, with a Bachelor s Degree in Nursing. After graduation, he joined the staff of Unity Hospice in Green Bay, Wisconsin and took a second, full-time position as a cardiac nurse at Bellin Hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Working with critically ill cardiac patients and terminally ill patients in Hospice, he became aware that almost all of his patients had brought their conditions upon themselves. Puzzled as to why this happened, he returned to his philosophy and academic background to study the questions of health, disease, and the American healthcare system. He presents the results of his study and his experience as a nurse in his presentation, Health and Healing: To Live A Long, Long Time and To Die Healthy.