5 questions in mental health counseling – and life

KevinMD October 26, 2024
Richard A. Lawhern, PhD and Pat Irving, RN

I’m 80 years old and I’ve been writing for over 60 years—first in systems engineering, later in advanced technology, and more recently in public health policy for the regulation of pain medicine. At this stage of my life, some of my writing is introspective, in an attempt to extract and share “lessons learned” with others. Thus, these five questions.

When I graduated with my bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1967, there was a war on. It was clear that if I didn’t volunteer, I could become a “grunt” hauling a rifle around the rice paddies of Vietnam. Some of my classmates didn’t come home from that war.

The Air Force was happy to enroll me in officers training school....

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