My blog represents my personal experiences and perspectives. This includes many anecdotes from my medical practice. I have been scrupulous to anonymize these anecdotes and to avoid ever belittling or making fun of patients. (I often make fun of and criticize myself, my colleagues, and the institutions where I have worked.)
It has become fashionable to assess the ‘value’ of medical care with a financial metric: Is this test cost effective? Does that intervention save money?
The problem with bureaucracy is reluctance to respond to change. Its motto is 'Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim …' It just can't pull the trigger!
(Anonymous)
I know when and why I developed PTSD (Pipe Traumatic Stress Disorder).
I love to snowshoe in the fields and woods behind my house.
If you grew up in a smoking household back in the 1950s, you probably experimented with cigarettes on the sly. I know I did, in elementary school.
The bottleneck is always the top of the bottle.
- Peter Drucker
The message on my door was: “Mrs. Grantham wants biopsy report sent to dermatologist. None in her chart.”
"The aim of argument and of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
- Joseph Joubert
We have met the enemy...
