Susan Baugh:  

Workplace I worked at three different restaurants throughout school and actually had to take a cut in pay when I got my first job as a Clinical Dietitian! My year's Internship was at Providence Hospital in Everett, WA. I then worked at Northwest Hospital in Seattle and finally, Overlake Hospital where I have now been for 27 years! I worked at least half-time throughout the growth of my three children. I enjoyed the mental stimulation and felt that I could be a better mother with some adult time each day. All three kids and one grandchild have been born at the hospital where I work! Looking back, I wish that I had become a Doctor. In the '70's, no one ever made me feel that was possible for a girl. I had that "dumb broad" demeanor because that was what was rewarded. I did really well in college graduating magna cum laude, am now a member of Phi Kappa Phi and I love the area of medicine. By the time that I seriously considered it and believed in myself enough to know that I could do it, I had three children and I put them first. I could not have done justice to both medical school and being the kind of mother that I wanted to be. So I just keep trudging along as a Dietitian doing the best that I can to advocate for the best of my patients. People at work find me very friendly and amicable, yet I'll be the one that says at meetings what everyone is thinking but no one will say. I have good self esteem - much better than I did growing up. I was teased ALOT about being skinny but now, in the long run, it's turned out to be an asset because I can't gain weight! I lost the weight gained during pregnancy within 1 week of the birth of all three of the children and then I had to work hard not to lose more! I hang around 105 lbs., which is about my High School weight. I got this from my Dad who, at 79, still is at his high school weight! I now work full time with the kids gone. I work in every unit in the hospital but find the ICU unit the most stimulating. We get every kind of trauma except burns and transplants. We have a lot of hospital priviledges including order writing priviledges, which comes with more responsability. Our Dr's actually seek out the RD's for nutritional advice. I think this year I'll get a special parking spot for all of my years of service (arg). I'm very patient but if I get pissed, I usually clean the house voraciously. That and o...Expand for more