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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When blogging makes a difference
10 Jan2010
I am all smiles. Twice this week I have received messages from ER physicians who diagnosed Lemierre syndrome. Both of the physicians are readers and suggested that my blogging about Lemierre syndrome made a difference in their thought process.
Often blogging is a selfish process. I started blogging to help my own writing. Blogging was so new that I had no idea that I would attract readers. As readership has grown, so have I. Blogging has helped me greatly. I write better and I think more carefully about health care issues. I have several publications that would not have occurred without the impetus that this blog provided.
Knowing that ones words actually educate readers and make a positive impact on patient care gives me pleasure that I cannot describe. I hope that both patients have smooth easy recoveries. I think the ER physicians for reading and especially for writing to tell me their stories. I hope through my blogging we will soon get to the point where no one considers Lemierre syndrome a forgotten disease any longer.
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6 Responses to When blogging makes a difference
Dan
January 10th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
I've followed your blog for quite sometime, several years actually. I also began blogging to improving my writing skills and engage others with personal stories. Just wanted to say that it is great to here a story about someone who raised awareness about a seemingly obscure ailment and was able to relate it to there growth as a writer. Congrats and keep up the great work!
storytellerdoc
January 10th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
Great job with your blog! I found your site in a round-about-way and have started my own site for similar reasons that you state in this post. I'm glad things have worked out for you while you have grown as a writer and person!
Thanks again. I will follow.
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Alishia
January 11th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
The more awareness, the better. I am a Lemierre's survivor myself, and I am so glad you are out there spreading the word. Keep it up!
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