My blog represents my personal experiences and perspectives. This includes many anecdotes from my life and from my medical practice. I have been scrupulous to anonymize all medical 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.)
The language of medicine is highly evolved and complex and allows clear, detailed, specific and unambiguous descriptions. Except when it’s not.
"Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve."
(Unknown)
An important part of medical care is the sharing of information.
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
