My Medical..Work History

I explain some of the letters after my name.
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
So this episode is about my medical history, not my
personal inside, but my medical work history. Welcome to a
lot of help with James Junior. I'm James Lodd Jr.
So if you have noticed that I have a lot
of letters after my name, I earned them all and

(00:24):
some of them are actually medical. And then also I've
played a doctor on television once. I mean all kinds stuff.
So I want to clear everything up and I'll just
share means something bad or anythink just I just want
to share with you some of what I what I
have done since the show is about mental, physical, spiritual health,

(00:45):
say all things, and I've always things that can't of
course there's my then going off. Okay, so first things first,
I come from a medical family. I've uncles they're doctors
and answer are nurses. I had people who my father
is in the profession. For years, I was a vice

(01:05):
president of Association of Southern California, among other things. Uh,
and work to a lot of nurses and ailash in
my eye of course, I thought I'm recording with and
your named Jim Lott in Los Angeles, especially in California.
It's for decades in that field. For me, I was
like I want to help people, and so I always draw.

(01:28):
I was drawn to the medical field. So in high school,
there's a program called SCROCK and that is Southern California
Regional Ocapationial Center. They had a work release program in
tandem with the schools of the South Bay area of
Los Angeles. And so what would do is you go
to class, you take you take your classes the morning,

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so that since sil early afternoon that you got released.
And so the last couple of periods you go off
for training and they would train you you for trade.
So it was a brilliant idea and so for me
because I was a very smart kid, but I was
also that's I was smart. I was also very smart
in how did my classes? Nice high school? Free started

(02:13):
ninth grade England High School. So ninth and tenth grade,
I did all this hard work. I did all these classes,
took all these things, and did some summer school. Sometimes
I had to a lot of times to get I
had to get ahead of schedule. So I tied to
eleventh grade. I was able to do this work release programs,
so I'd have classes that I would have well back

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then it was certain classes that were only for certain grades.
You couldn't take them sooner. So like there was some
things that were sorry, guys, this eyelash is in my eye.
I'm trying to talk to you guys alway, I'm sorry
about that. Oh my god, that's not I'm really right too.
All of a sudden, it's like turn a light off.

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There we go. That's that's that's better. That's worse. That's bad,
that's worse. Here, there we go, Here we go, h
eluitas all in. This is life, this is real life.
This is great. So I took this work release program.

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So I would go to school from like eight to twelve,
and then i'd have lunch and i'd get we get
on a bus and take a bus. We put up
these kids from other schools and we'd go out to
Scuark Rooms in Torrance, which is like thirteen two minutes
away from me from Englewood, and I would go and
learn some And so I went to a medical assistant.
So by the time I graduated high school, I was

(03:41):
alright working at a hospital. And also I was a certifile.
I was a CMA and a CNA, so I certified
medical assistant and certified nurses assistant. I remember my teacher.
I forgot her name, but she was the mom, Mom Diggity,
and we worked at Bay Harbor Hospital. While we trained
on site. We went to Bay Harbor Hospital and Lone
And that's why I first went in the hospital. So

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before I even graduated high school, I was doing that.
So I have those letters after my name. And then
then I went to school become a nurse, and I
became an l VN. And some license vocational nurse. There
are licensed practical nurses. All I say, my license vocational
nurse is what I did. I worked to the hospital
in several hospitals in Sacramento. Did that. Then I realized

(04:26):
I won't be I want to be a nurse anymore.
It was like, oh my God, sick people, but all
serious as I found it wasn't my passion. I didn't
want to do it anymore. It wasn't my passion. And
so to me, nurses do God's work. They run the floor.
It's the whole thing. But I kept my boards up there,
and I kept my boards up for a long time.
Every year, I kept them up just because I had

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to go back to be a nurse. You never know.
I moved to San Francisco, and a various couple of
the jobs I had during my sixteen years there. I
worked with the saf Aids Foundation. I worked with brothers,
a steamer for a lot of groups on health issues,
sexual health, pregnancy, team health. I mean I was all

(05:08):
about I was. I was kind of brought my My
nursing experience and housepal experience really came in handy since then.
Since then, I mean, I've saved some lives. I've done
a kind of stuff outside of working as a practice
as a practicing nurse, I've used it for various jobs
and things. I helped somebody on a plane once I

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flight time on a plane there was a doctor. I
was the only nurse on mid air. I had to
help them. She had collapsed and I had to help
her out. She had low blood blow sugar through diabetic
helped her out. My friend Nick was choking. I've saved
some served times from choking. Just made situations I've been
in since then, they have come in handy. Also, I

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played a doctor on House, the first enthune I ever did.
I played a doctor for a couple of selves on
House and that was kind of fun too, as I
actually plaid I said, nursery life. I paid doctor on television,
but I do got some certifications, and what inservations I
got is that I am a it says CDC, but
it's not medical. I'm gonna certify divorce coach. It says

(06:13):
me CC. And then I have a d D for
my name because I have a doctorate in divinity, so
speaking to spiritual health, I have that and it's a
it's a d D. So it's kind of funny. So
I have that. So it's like I am doctor Lot
and in some circles I've known as doctor Lot, so
it does, it does come up in certain things. But
that's my doctorate in divinity. Because I studied and I

(06:35):
was a chairperson at sh shte Church Compassion. I've done
other outreach other churches and we're to a couple of
universities here now, like Christian universities here, and I got it.
So those are like my medical things. I have a
certified life coach also, which I'll talk about my next
episode because I'm celebrating eleven years of that this month.

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But that is, you know, that's medical history. And I
do a lot of shows like I love talking to
doctors and medical professionals. I'm talking to on this show especially,
We've talked to so many over the years in all
different fields. And ironically I might be going back into
the field a little bit. I have. I've gotten a

(07:20):
semi offer to work in the medical field part time,
helping out one of my clients who's a doctor ale
to be posted. I won't say much, ye, I'm not sure.
As an offer made to me for a certain position,
I may take it just because it's it's kind of

(07:43):
fun and that kind of fun to be in that
I like. So, so here's the thing. I love academia.
I have my hands in that I love the medical field,
and my hands in that they're not super passions of mine,
but they are things that I enjoy. I'm doing my path,
which is this, and which is organizing and life coaching
and all that stuff too. I could be a right

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to be a well rounded person, so uh, And I
know that everything that I've ever done has led to
this and as and and and and has led to
and has been all useful in my life. I eat
my nursing degrees I use all the time basically because

(08:25):
I'm now caregiving a parent and I had a health
care give several people over the years. So it's that's
coming handy babies, you know, all of the sex talks,
you know, for the you know, for the other birds
and the bees. A lot of times get people come
and say, go to Uncle Jes, go to Danny. I like,
take it out to you and talk. My daughter's like,

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go to me because I know how to do it
in a way that's educational and and not shameful of course,
and uh and realistic. So I mean, it's it's but
the medical stuff will always be with me, even though
I don't practice medicine as a job, but I've worked
since I even my organizing world, well, my first clients

(09:09):
was the UCLA Medical Center. I did some stuff with them,
and I for god, I was, I guess with them
for what the first three or four years, four or
five years with them, and it was it was a
great experience. I'd love to work. So they would call
me in several times a year, and I loved it.

(09:30):
I just thought it was just one of it was
a wonderful experience. I loved it. And I try to
think if anything else medical related, I think it's everything everything,
But it just goes to show you can go to school,
do stuff. One way, you change a lot. You change
your mind, and a lot of us do that. I

(09:52):
you know, I'm thinking about writing. I wrote a medical mystery,
co wrote Put the Hands dound TiSER Town Now, but
I haven't really written. I've been wanting to write like
a a full on medical drama, and we had one.

(10:12):
We have one in production kind of for jail j Media,
c Love Politics, Medicine. There are a couple of pre
shows out now under the Really Short Story podcast podcast
and you check that out. But I personally have not
written one myself. That's by Matthew Theo and myself. I
watched Our Hospital and I review that every every week,

(10:34):
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