Hi guys, welcome back to skincare anarchy. This is your most ecta and I am super excited because

this is a very different kind of episode that I have for you guys today. I am going to be

interviewing a few people that are really leaders in their field and I'm super excited to introduce

everybody to you. So first, I have Lori Robertson, who is a very, very nationally acclaimed nurse

practitioner. Lori has over 39 years of experience in medicine. She has also been the medical

consult and actress for the ABC TV show General Hospital for 19 years. So welcome to the show,

Lori. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much, Esther, for having me. I appreciate it.

It's truly my honor. I would love to ask you a little bit about your background. I want

I want the listeners to know, you know, just what you've done and how your background has been

in the industry. Oh my gosh, I don't know where to start, girl. I started my career in intensive

care as an RN and then went to emergency rooms. So I did the combined. I did those for about 24

years and then became a nurse practitioner and educated myself right out of a job because my

hospital at that time didn't use nurse practitioners or PAs. So I ended up working in family practice

for a few years. And during that time, the whole time, I was the medical consultant for General

Hospital and quite a few movies and stuff. So I said, I did a lot of medical consulting on the set,

wrote, wrote dialogue, just all kinds of fun stuff for TV land and learned a lot about that fantasy

world. Yeah, that's so cool. Because I love all the, I love all the medical shows and this is

so surreal. Yeah, it was neat because because General Hospital, I had my, I'm union too. So I would

be on the show and play a nurse whenever I was there. But I did that for about 19 years and

I was able to bring a lot of diagnoses into the scripts like HIV and breast cancer and

pediatric transplant and things that really educated the audience regarding a lot of medical

conditions. And we gave them a lot of good medical information. But then whenever the writers

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