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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Thoughts on the Academic Hospitalist Academy
12 Nov2009
I spent yesterday afternoon driving and unwinding from three and a half intense days participating and teaching in the Academic Hospitalist Academy. We first contemplated this course 3 years ago at a retreat in the Detroit Airport. The meeting itself exceed most expectations.
78 relatively new academic hospitalists attended the course, along with 8 faculty participants. We talked about every aspect of academic hospitalist life:
- The business drivers for the field.
- Becoming a better clinical teacher.
- Giving constructive feedback.
- Giving presentations.
- Designing and participating in QI.
- Designing and participating in patient safety projects.
- Developing an educator's portfolio.
- Designing curricula.
- Tips for academic success.
The vast majority of participants attended every session. We had frequent "breakouts" to allow discussion of important issues. Thus, we had a most interactive academy.
What struck me most was the enthusiasm of the participants. Academic hospitalists must take a lead in advancing the field. Fortunately, academic hospital medicine has academic general internal medicine to build on.
We need more hospitalists leading educational programs, quality efforts and patient safety committees. We need hospitalist investigators who see problems in hospitalized patients and study those problems. We need to develop the next generation of hospitalist role models.
I believe we succeeded in jump starting many careers. The participants now know the paths to success and understand how to start. They have had discussions with academic leaders about the wide variety of issues that they face. They have had discussions with their peers from other institutions about the issues they face.
As Hannibal used to say on the "A Team" – "I love it when a plan comes together"
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- The Academic Hospitalist Academy
- Academic Hospitalist Academy – November 2009
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- What makes a good hospitalist program?
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2 Responses to Thoughts on the Academic Hospitalist Academy
Isadora Roth
November 12th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Many many thanks to you and to everyone for an amazing conference. The leaders usually set the mood and the facilitators/presentors led with an energy that was inspiring and thrilling. This was the most exciting and rewarding educational experience I have ever experienced; in fact I didn't want it to end. I came to this feeling a bit aimless and thank all the facilitators and participants for the gift of awakening in me a sense of excitement for my future and the future of hospitalist medicine.
Anon
November 12th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
My experience as an academic hospitalist was that my role existed simply to allow the residents to have a cap on admissions. All that anyone seemed to care about was that we admitted, treated, and discharged patients. There were to few hospitalists for the job and we migrated to non-academic positions.
Part of success (academic or non-academic) in medicine is making sure your facility wants someone with your skill set. That was a hard lesson to learn, but in the end I'm glad I learned it early in my career.