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James Q. Simmons

Board-certified acute care nurse practitioner (DNP, UCLA) and multimedia medical expert, creator of "Ask The NP" and CEO of Simmons Medical & Media Consulting in Los Angeles.

Oct 22, 2026

55:36
Um, um, but I, I'm wondering if, if, uh, COVID hyper-drived, uh, the need for what the type of service that you offer.
55:51
Yeah.
55:52
COVID changed everything for all of us, didn't it? It was just, God, we're not over it.
55:57
And it fundamentally changed us as like a species.
56:01
And also just I think back and I'm like, I cannot believe some of this stuff was happening.
56:05
Like the horror stories, the war stories I have from being on the front lines because I still practice in the hospital and I have a small outpatient practice right now.
56:13
I still practice and I think it's super important for clinicians who are trying to educate the lay public, like non-medical people to be practicing in some form.

8 MINS LATER

64:41
But has there been like a one patient interaction that completely turned your thoughts on your profession on its head or made you think differently about medicine that you had never thought about before?
56:29
But I'm wondering if COVID hyper-drived the need for what the type of service that you offer.
56:40
Yeah.
56:41
COVID changed everything for all of us, didn't it? It was just, God, we're not over it.
56:46
And it fundamentally changed us as like a species of, And also just I think back and I'm like, I cannot believe some of this stuff was happening.
56:54
Like the horror stories, the war stories I have from being on the front lines because I still practice in the hospital and I have a small outpatient practice right now.
57:02
I still practice and I think it's super important for clinicians who are trying to educate the lay public, like non-medical people to be practicing in some form.
57:09
It's really important to me.

8 MINS LATER

65:29
But has there been like a one patient interaction that completely turned your thoughts on your profession on its head or made you think differently about medicine that you had never thought about before?

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