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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The quality portfolio
26 Feb2009
Back during my SGIM presidency – 2006-7 – we started an academic hospitalist task force. This group quickly focused on defining the important issues for the growing number of academic hospitalists being hired across the country. A major concern for that group was the documentation of the work that many hospitalists (and a growing number of outpatient physicians) do to improve health care quality.
The work group now has published QP 1.0 – Quality Portfolio Introduction. This site provides the rationale and download links for the QP and a sample QP.
While the group started with academic hospitalists as the main concern, clearly many others who do quality work will benefit from this effort. I mentioned outpatient physicians already. Community based hospitalists usually do quality work at their hospitals. They too should keep track of their QP as a part of their resume. The QP would likely help them if they sought a future position.
Please provide any feedback on this idea. I will copy the authors of any comments.
Related posts:
- Thoughts on the Academic Hospitalist Academy
- Patients leaving primary care physicians who eschew the hospital
- Academic Hospitalist Academy – November 2009
- The Academic Hospitalist Academy
- An interview about hospitalists
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