Favorite Quotes
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - HL Mencken
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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease" - Sir William Osler
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" The best test of a person's character is how he or she treats those with less power." - Bob Sutton
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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them - well, I have others." - Groucho Marx
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." - Charles Mingus
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around." - Talking Heads, Life During Wartime
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"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it." - Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a
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"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing." - Thomas Sowell
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"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - HL Mencken
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"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
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"A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves." - Herbie Hancock
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"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Nietzsche
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France
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"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ====
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About a patient with pancreatic cancer
9 Feb2009
Recently our publication relations expert asked if I would talk with a reporter about doctor patient communication. He told me that a reporter at the small city paper in Anniston, Alabama was doing a story about a patient who had a recent diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. I agreed and spent about 30 minutes on the phone with a reporter.
Talking with reporters causes some anxiety. You hope they will quote you accurately. Sometimes reporters hit a home run. I have a very small part of this article and I applaud the reporters for writing an important and moving story.
The other side: Medicine has many stories … this is Kenny Callahan’s
All I can say to Laura Tutor is – well done.
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2 Responses to About a patient with pancreatic cancer
TBTAM
February 9th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
That was a really beautifullly writtem well done article. They come few and far between in the media these days. Nice when they get it right. COngrats on being included.
Dr. Bob (FP)
February 10th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Wow! That was really well done!