When Tom Fowkes tells his friends in Pennsylvania that he commutes to work in Oakland, they all tend
to react in the same way: "You work in California? Are you nuts?!" And he couldn't disagree more. The Kaiser pediatric nurse began his bi-weekly trip to work 9 years ago, and, he is happy to report, it "has changed my life." When Fowkes was working as a nurse
in Pennsylvania, he had to work three jobs, barely made ends meet and never ... |