something that changes you so ready to go.
>> Yep we'll go back to the school and you'll tell me what you thought.
>> Wow this has been an amazing day, it really has been.
I have learned so much, I mean I can go all the way from
the disease investigation side, the outreach side to the preparedness,
the emergency response planning side, to the public health
nursing aspect, and then finishing it up with environmental health.
>> Yeah.
>> Inspections, and just, I mean it's amazing how much,
we know this and yet, you still appreciate how much public health does.
>> Yes, well, we thought Baltimore County would be a good one for
you to see because it is so- >> My gosh.
>> Diverse in many different ways.
And certainly the landscape tells a little bit of that story.
>> Yes, horses, and urban areas, beaches.
I mean yeah I was really floored by just how diverse this community is,
really demographically is one thing but geographically is another thing.
And yet all of those different areas or
the diversity of people, the diversity of topography.
All that is a challenge too because we in public health have to
somehow find a way to work around all those differences and
still at the end of the day have a healthy community, and that's not easy.
>> It's not easy.
Every part of this county has it's own type of public health challenge that
the Health Department has to rise to.
But it's because of the people who you met that it is possible.
>> That's right that's right, so a lot of times people as we talked
about people think that it's a nine to five job it's not.
It's 24/7 and people think that well it must be behind a desk, well it's not.
As you heard in these stories, it's really about people all day doing things and
that’s incredibly, again challenging.
But it's so important for the health of the community.
>> So, with that in mind, when you're talking to new public health workers what
do you tell them you look for in your department?
Do you look for people who only want to do the same thing all the time?
>> [LAUGH] >> No, what's your message to new workers?
>> I actually have, it's a very simple message and
I'm not sure I'm going to be able to say it as simply as it is in my mind.
But it really comes out to two concepts