There’s so much to learn from times when there are industry wide U-Turns and so we asked so we asked the community to share stories of such reversals that they’ve witnessed over the course of their careers.

Dr. Buffy Lloyd-Krejci

There is no question the nursing home industry is facing a “U-Turn” moment right now! In the midst of the COVID pandemic and studying the spread of infectious diseases in nursing homes in the United States, I discovered extreme inadequacies in the care of our elderly. Even before the pandemic, between one and three million infections resulted in 380,000 deaths among nursing home residents each year. There was no standard of infection prevention and control practices, leaving these institutions in a reactive state, unable to provide effective support to residents. Read more>>

Devan Doherty

I have been working as the Clinical Coordinator at Right Relief Health, a private practice located in Watkinsville, GA – this is about 10 minutes from Athens – for almost 13 years. The healthcare industry and medicine in general is constantly evolving and changing but this is particularly evident in the context of addiction. Read more>>

Daria Jagersky

About 15 years ago the massage industry completely changed with the introduction of large corporate chains. The goal was to make massage more affordable and accessible to the general public and to make getting a massage less of a luxury and more part of “everyday” people’s lives. It changed how massage was viewed and did make it more acceptable however it did greatly diminish the quality of the kind of massage therapy that had been previously offered. The large chains focus on how many people they can get through their doors and they rely on selling memberships to keep a steady revenue stream, the focus became less on the quality of the work and more on sales. Read more>>