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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.
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Oct 22, 2026
S1 E3: "Boys Aren't Nurses" (in 1980s Nebraska) with Dr. James Q Simmons | Friends & Acquaintances
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55:36Kenneth SuarezHOST
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.
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55:52James Q SimmonsGUEST
COVID changed everything for all of us, didn't it? It was just, God, we're not over it.
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56:01James Q SimmonsGUEST
And also just I think back and I'm like, I cannot believe some of this stuff was happening.
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56:05James Q SimmonsGUEST
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.
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56:13James Q SimmonsGUEST
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.
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64:41Matt MarrHOST
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?
Life in Parallel Podcast SNEAK PEEK: "Boys Aren't Nurses" (in 1980s Nebraska) with Dr. James Q. Simmons
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56:29Kenneth SuarezHOST
But I'm wondering if COVID hyper-drived the need for what the type of service that you offer.
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56:41James Q. SimmonsGUEST
COVID changed everything for all of us, didn't it? It was just, God, we're not over it.
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56:46James Q. SimmonsGUEST
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.
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56:54James Q. SimmonsGUEST
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.
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57:02James Q. SimmonsGUEST
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
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65:29Matt MarrHOST
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?