Pediatric Tracheostomy: The Long Game

[Romaine Johnson MD]
Wow. Everyone should at least know them. Well, I think so I'll take it a different way. So I think that you should always bet on yourself, that you can be better. And that you can solve complex problems, particularly if they're kind of human relation problems. Often what happens is you find yourself in a work environment, where there's conflict, and there's people working against each other and butting heads. And that's the reason why you have systemic error in something like tracheostomy patients. You'll find that there's just people who, that's the way they do trachs or no one takes the care of people with tracheostomy seriously or you don't think anybody wants to make things better.

And I would say that that's not true. I think, wherever you are, if you really set out to make positive change, positive change will happen. There's this book called the, what is it? The Alchemist. And in part of it, he says, "The whole universe works with you, if you're pursuing kind of your personal legend." I think if you're pursuing something positive, and you're trying to make a real significant impact on your work environment, on whatever it is, I do think the universe aligns and works with you. And so that would be my final piece of advice to everyone.