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"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - HL Mencken
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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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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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"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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ACP leadership
23 May2009
As readers know, I am currently on the ACP Board of Regents. I just started my 2nd year on this board. Over the course of this time I have become increasingly impressed with ACP leadership.
I spent my first few meetings a bit dazed and overwhelmed. ACP is a huge organization (125k members) with large numbers of programs. While I knew a few of the Regents, it takes some time develop new relationships and better understand each Regents background, interests and skills.
Wow, this is a representative group. We have a great balance of private practice and academics. That is quite unusual in large organizations. I marvel at the dedication that the Regents have to ACP and internal medicine as a field.
We make many decisions; I agree with most decisions, but when I disagree, I have complete respect for the decision making process and the integrity of the other Regents. As I sit around the table, I know that everyone has a passion for Internal Medicine.
I am very fortunate to have the opportunity to contribute to the organization. I sense that my colleagues feel the same.
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