Michael “Doc” Moates, Ed.D.
Journalist. Educator. Doctor of Education. Clinician and behavior analyst. Software engineer. And now, a nursing student. Each was a choice, from White House press briefings to college classrooms, from clinical practice to policy tables, from open-source code to a hospital floor. Six disciplines, one stubborn intention.
The Short Version
Journalist. Communications director. Doctor of education. Clinician and behavior analyst. Software engineer. College educator. And now, a nursing student. The through-line was never a job title, it was curiosity, and a need to be useful.
Writing
Health news moves fast and rewards certainty, but the science underneath is usually slower and more tentative. A few habits can help you read the headline without being ruled by it.
Transferring colleges should be a routine part of the modern student journey. Too often it costs students time, money, and momentum they never get back.
The most common misreading of psychological safety turns it into a demand for constant comfort. Real teams need the opposite: enough trust to disagree out loud.
If your work lives where a few different worlds overlap, we'll probably get along.
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