The roles, they are a changing: Respiratory Therapists as part of the multidisciplinary, community, primary health care team

The health care system is broken and it has been broken for a long time. There is an emerging trend for multidisciplinary teams to deliver primary health care (PHC) [1, 2]. This novel approach PHC is proving to be advantageous. Respiratory Therapists (RTs) are working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, infusing the health care system with focusing on disease prevention and health promotion versus the dated practice of waiting until the client is at their worst health to intervene. People deserve to live their best life with their illness, and RTs can contribute to making that possible