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Embracing ignorance

Submitted by PeterElias on Fri, 11/08/2013 - 06:00

All day long I work with patients who want answers and certainty. My awareness of how few questions have proven answers, and how unpredictable human health and disease can be, is a heavy burden.  This discordance may be why I enjoyed Stuart Firestein’s excellent book, Ignorance,  so much. He makes an excellent case for the value of ignorance.

Togetherness

Submitted by PeterElias on Tue, 10/15/2013 - 06:00

Alone we go faster, but together we go further. Alone things are simpler, but together things are better. Alone we control the process and perhaps the product, but it is together that we learn and grow. 

Let’s work together.

 


 

The Darwin principle

Submitted by PeterElias on Fri, 02/22/2013 - 06:00

Darwin observed: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” This profound observation is poorly understood and usually ignored by institutions and organizations.