Daily-ness

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...

Improving Effectiveness and Productivity

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...

Warnings Ignored

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...

Read the Directions

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...

Confident Following Jesus

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 —...