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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An interview about hospitalists
28 Nov2009
Do hospitalists really provide better care?
In which I challenge hospitalists to perform important new studies concerning the best models for hospitalist groups. I hope those who read this interview understand that I am supportive of hospitalist programs. What I hope careful reading shows is that we need research to help improve those programs even more.
If hospitalists really want to prove their worth, Dr. Centor says, studies need to look at how to put together a good hospitalist group, what type of “group sociology” might cause newly-hired residents to leave after only a year or two, and what type of hospitalist leadership makes a difference in care quality.
“A really strong hospitalist group,” Dr. Centor points out, “infiltrates the entire hospital culture and works with the entire hospital—the nursing staff, the physical therapists, everyone—to try to figure out how it can make lengths of stay shorter and more efficient, with fewer errors.”
I know of great hospitalist programs and weak hospitalist programs. We need better definitions of hospitalist program excellence.
To make myself very clear – I support the hospitalist movement, but I want all hospitals and programs to strive towards making their programs highest quality. Patients deserve no less.
Related posts:
- What makes a good hospitalist program?
- The quality portfolio
- Some hospitalist jobs are better than others
- The Academic Hospitalist Academy
- Thoughts on the Academic Hospitalist Academy
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