Contemplating medicine and the health care system
I am enjoying sharing the main teaching points from my two weeks on VA service. My team is actually reviewing my notes to reinforce the teaching.
So the question - is this series worthwhile? What comments do you have about the focus of these entries?
Thanks
db
Really enjoy everything you write, from clinical (takes me back to my days as a resident, and I usually pick up a nugget I missed then [20 years ago]) to P4P discussions.
Absolutely useful. I am an Internist 10 years post residency and I really enjoyed looking at how you think about patients and discuss their conditions with your team. I was tuning in everyday to see what the topic might be. Much more interesting since I hadnt been up all night admitting patients.
The acid base problem was fun. Case presentations with delayed answers/explanations make for more interactive blogs as the reader gets a chance to do a little detective work on his own.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - HL Mencken
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease" - Sir William Osler
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them - well, I have others." - Groucho Marx
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." - Charles Mingus
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
"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
"This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around." - Talking Heads, Life During Wartime
"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
"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing." - Thomas Sowell
"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
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
"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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Walter Morris
February 7th, 2008 / 8:46 am
Good Series….I worked at the Birmingham VA in the 1990s as a resident and can verify the plethora of disease (mostly CV and pulmonary)…saw excellent ID as well