Best Careers

I am a firm believer in the idea that prevention is always better than treatment. I believe that this applies to all different types of problems but of course it’s most obvious in the world of medicine. Good doctors in all areas of medicine will work towards prevention of the problems that they are most frequently asked to teach.

I’m happy to say that many medical schools are now emphasizing this. I know someone who recently attended the Doctor of Audiology Program at atsu and she says that they’re working on prevention in the field of audiology. This is interesting because this has traditionally been a field that focused on treatment.

Audiology, as you probably know, deals with hearing loss. Up until recently, advances made in this field were designed to improve treatment to assist those in dealing with hearing loss to live fuller lives. Now the field is focusing more on prevention of hearing loss so that people can continue to hear well long into their later years of life.

It excites me to see fields like this adopting an attitude of prevention. I believe that being proactive in our lives and our careers allows us to make things better for the people who come after us. And I think it’s important to leave things better for future generations.

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Today is my dad’s birthday, and I’ve been reflecting on what it means to me that he is getting older.  He was always older than my friends’ dads, because he was 36 when I was born, and now thee age is showing more than I’d like.

For instance, my dad has gained weight steadily throughout the last decade or so, and although his cholesterol is sky-high he refuses to take anything for it.  My mom has recently switched to a vegetarian diet, and I think that influences his health in a positive way, but he still ought to eat better and exercise more than he does now.

I wonder what will happen to my parents when they get older.  They strike me as too cheap to ever pay for home care or a nursing home if they are able to make that decision, and I’d hate to see them in a state facility.  I’m not sure if I’m up to taking care of them at home, either, though.  I would have to get some family caregiver training because otherwise I don’t think I would know what I was doing — working in child care may be similar in some ways, but it’s still a far cry from taking care of an aging adult!

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