A Spiritual Resumé

Interviewing candidates for a residency program in emergency medicine at Thomas Jefferson University is always enjoyable. Evaluating some extraordinary resumés and assessing the accomplishments of these medical students is fun. However, I must constantly remind...

Wrong Thinking

I read with interest the New York Times best selling book, How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman. Dr. Groopman suggests “most errors (by physicians) are mistakes of thinking. And part of what causes these cognitive errors is our inner feelings, feelings we do not...

Make Wise Choices

"Make wise choices this weekend!" are my daughter's words to her high school students each Friday as they leave class. Applying common sense, logic and reason to decisions is a challenge for some teenage minds. Her words also remind me off the importance...

Oh to Be Like Him…

Recent golf lessons have not caused anyone to mistake me for Tiger Woods. Watching golf tournaments on television and reading golf magazines have not helped much either. But that has not dissuaded me from trying to imitate Tiger. In fact, on a par 3 hole, a tee shot...

Is restraint a good thing?

Overeating. I know the "I wish I hadn't done that" feeling that accompanies the too-full sensation after a buffet dinner. Where did my resolve go? Restraint and self-control: we rarely hear these words today. Could it be because living out these words...

Waiting Well

A physician waiting more than two hours in a doctor's waiting room – poetic justice, some would say. For me, the result was annoyance followed by agitation and then anger. I am not inclined to wait well. Just think of the praying and meditating, the...