by marshal | Jan 13, 2011 | Competence, Lessons Learned
During my many years of schooling, I realized that good teaching included good testing. In other words, theory must find its home in application. Theory is often learned in the classroom, sitting in rows in a controlled environment. However, application becomes messy....
by marshal | Nov 18, 2010 | Competence, Lessons Learned, Love
Everyone is a follower. A speaker once told me that even leaders are followers. The critical issue is asking the question, "Who or what am I following?" Increasingly, people have begun to refer to themselves as followers of Jesus rather than Christians. I am...
by marshal | Sep 30, 2010 | Competence, Lessons Learned, Purity
"What is wrong with my child?!" Parents with much pathos and pain often posed this question to me in the emergency department. A child's symptoms such as fever were easily treatable but the question still remained, "What is wrong – what is the...
by marshal | Jul 15, 2010 | Competence, Lessons Learned
During my 23 years of education, taking tests was a regular activity. These tests evaluated my aptitude and knowledge. As I moved into medical school and emergency medicine, testing increasingly assessed not only my knowledge base but also my skill level – my...
by marshal | Jun 24, 2010 | Competence, Lessons Learned
I hopped in a taxi to discover that my cab driver was from Kosovo. Knowing the turmoil of that region I said, “Isn’t it sad that there is so much difficulty and suffering in the world?” The cabbie gently rebuked me with these words. “If there...
by marshal | Jun 10, 2010 | Competence, Lessons Learned
The importance of learning lessons well was impressed upon me in my freshman year of medical school. A junior medical student told me, "Everything you need to learn you will hear ten times. Just learn it once!!" He also implied that failure to learn might...
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