The road ahead for respiratory therapy

It only takes viewing a brief segment of the evening news on any given day to get a sense that, when it comes to the broader context in which we practice, the only constant is that it is ever in flux. Recent headlines have touched on such events as borderless health emergencies, disruptive technologies, stories of refugees fleeing crises that reach around the globe, and political agreements in Canada that promise to ensure a robust health care system into the future. The practices that respiratory therapists engage in are truly products of complex webs of influential factors, including those that we see in these and other news headlines [1]. Some of the influences that shape us may be ones we interact with routinely; however, others may at times seem to lie far outside of our sphere of influence [1]