Hi guys, welcome back to skincare and arki. 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 Laurie Robertson, who is a very very nationally

acclaimed nurse practitioner and Laurie 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 Laurie, thank you so much for your time.

Thank you so much extra 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 PA's. 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

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