Contemplating medicine and the health care system
You will need a high speed connection to view this talk. I gave this talk at UC Davis, and they kindly archived it.
Long time readers will not be surprised by my comments, but I hope this discussions brings many ideas into focus.
Guidelines - a skeptic’s viewpoint
that guy who did the introduction really loves you.
Great lecture. Thanks.
"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
"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Nietzsche
"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
The Jobbing Doctor
May 10th, 2008 / 10:34 am
I really enjoyed this lecture, thank you very much. As a General Practitioner, Undergraduate and Postgraduate teacher in the UK, I am the closest equivalent to the General Internist in the UK NHS.
You have put a lot of what I feel about guidelines into words of some erudition (although I do quote Einstein and Nietzche as well).
I prefer to consider guidelines as Guidance: that helps me a lot.
Thank You again.
JD.