"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Swept Away: Joseph Bottum recently passed on David Brooks' description of an editing job as "like camping beside a raging river. Every morning you pack up your canoe, push out into the stream, and paddle against the current as fast as you can. And if you work hard enough all day, you're able to pull back to shore in the evening exactly where you left in the morning." A doctor's job is a lot like that. Every patient visit, except for the simplest of acute illnesses, generates paperwork that trails in for days afterward - x-ray results, lab results, phone calls to follow-through on those results, letters to consultants to write and letters from consultants to read. It's easy to get swept away by the torrent of paper. I once worked with a doctor who had to be home at 5:30PM every night and was not allowed to come to the office before 9:00AM every morning. He was perpetually swept away. I don't know how he stood it. It happens to me periodically, as it did this past week. A hectic call schedule and hectic kid schedule left me hopelessly behind. I've almost paddled back to the starting point. Which is all a long way of saying sorry for the shortage of posts this week. posted by Sydney on
3/24/2007 12:17:00 PM
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