by marshal | Jun 18, 2009 | Competence, Lessons Learned
As a paperboy, I began each morning reading the sports page, then the comics, and finally the front page. Only then would I hop on my bike and deliver my papers. Those six years of rising at 5 A.M. and reading the daily news instilled in me both an interest in current...
by marshal | May 28, 2009 | Competence, Lessons Learned
Effectiveness, efficiency and productivity have always been an issue for me in my work life. As an emergency physician time was always of the essence. Saving time and energy while maintaining excellence is a much desired strategy, not only in medicine but in all of...
by marshal | Mar 29, 2009 | Competence, Lessons Learned
Lights flashing. Sirens wailing. No one responding. Everything inside of me told me to get out of there. But the person at the airline counter where I was waiting to board a flight nonchalantly indicated that she did not know what was happening. The security guards...
by marshal | Jul 24, 2008 | Competence, Lessons Learned, Priorities
"What is important is not what is next but what is now." My friend continued by saying that many times she thinks so far ahead and worries about what might happen in the future that she misses the joys and opportunities presented to her in the "here and...
by marshal | Jun 26, 2008 | Competence, Lessons Learned
Wrestling with a bar of hotel soap inside an unusually sturdy plastic wrapper ended in me losing! For three consecutive days, I tore at the wrapper unable to open it. Each time the result was the same – soap and wrapper destroyed. Finally, I put on my glasses...
by marshal | Jun 12, 2008 | Competence, Lessons Learned
Massive, unspeakable tragedy entered the doors of the emergency department daily. Instead of fear, uncertainty or trepidation I could, as the emergency physician on duty, confidently approach patients in need BECAUSE I was not alone. Medical professionals —...
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