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I, you know, again, I don't want to lose sight of the positives. Look, I was in Texas this week at a at a small business event for women starting, running, growing their own businesses. And I spent time with one woman talking about health deserts and what she means by that. So she's a qualified doctor. She started in Alaska, moved to West Texas. What she sees is that if you live in a health desert, your life expectancy is 30% less than someone who's got active access to healthcare. So what's she doing with our technology? Number one, she's utilizing the fact that 330 million people every week ask ChatGPT a question about their health. We have a clinician tool now, so we're enabling doctors to quickly use AI. And then we work with hospital systems like HCA, Boston Children's, Stanford Children's to be able to put that all together. She steps in as an entrepreneur and says, I am going to build a business that's going to bring healthcare, tele-doctoring to places like West Texas.
Sarah Friar · Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer · Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 9/15/26 · 2026-09-15This is Scott Becker with the Becker's Healthcare Podcast. We, we're thrilled today to have a very special guest. We're joined today with, with somebody from the front lines of nursing education, with Arnold Blake. Arnold's a nursing student at the Gawain College of Nursing, an HCA Healthcare affiliate. So excited to visit with Arnold. So many things changing in the world of nursing and nurse education. I am so excited to visit with you. Take a moment if you don't mind, tell us a little bit about yourself and what led you to pursue a career in nursing.
Scott Becker · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast · Arnold Blake on Nursing Education and the Future of Nursing · 2026-09-12Thank you. Congratulations. And so needed. Just give us a bit about, I'm gonna ask you some questions about sort of the, you know, your clinicals and hands-on work and what's that taught you about nursing. So you've been doing your hands-on clinical rotations and experience at HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center. What has that taught you about nursing that you can't learn in the classroom? I assume similar to watching Navy Corps members, things you couldn't have learned in the classroom. What are the things you're learning in hands-on clinical experience, just in life, as you apply them to nursing and what are you seeing?
Scott Becker · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast · Arnold Blake on Nursing Education and the Future of Nursing · 2026-09-12Yeah, my time at HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center has been extremely valuable because being in class, we do a lot of scenario-based like operations. We kind of brainstorm back and forth about the best way to go about treatments and all that kind of stuff and decide what the patient needs. But being hands-on and working under nurses who have a ton of experience has been helpful because it helps us build our confidence. This specific location down in the medical center sees a lot of different cases, a lot of complex cases. And so getting to see those nurses use their expertise to really give their patients what they are looking for and help them in the best way possible and being a part of that has been extremely valuable. There's like so many skills that I will continue to take on with me just because of my time here.
Arnold Blake · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast · Arnold Blake on Nursing Education and the Future of Nursing · 2026-09-12No, I think that's just remarkable, and it's remarkable for me to see the improvement nursing education over the years and how much it's excelled and how, what a great job the nursing schools are doing, like Galen, like HCA, of producing nurses. When you look at, as you enter the nursing profession, what changes or challenges in healthcare do you find most interesting? What are you most focused on and excited about as you move forward in the next year or so?
Scott Becker · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast · Arnold Blake on Nursing Education and the Future of Nursing · 2026-09-12