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Category Archives: Perspective
What is the question that will change your day?
The other night working in the Emergency Department I was dog tired as I picked up a chart of a patient to see. After I obtained the pertinent medical information from this patient, I then asked my 94 year old patient, “Where were you during world war 2?” He proceeded to share a little known [...]…
Is Life and The People In It Passing You By?
So often I live my life like the guy in this video. Rushing around to get done all my to do’s while not taking notice of those around me, not connecting, and not taking in all that is available in the moments. This video reminds me to slow down and be mindful of those around [...]…
The #1 Way to Show Your Patients that You Care: Acknowledgment
“All the tests are back, and their is nothing wrong with your daughter.” For years, I would step into a patients room and annouce the good news that there was “nothing wrong with you” thinking that the patient would be so releaved. I was reminded of the impact of such a statment at work recently. [...]…
What Do You Want Your Button to Say?
One of my friends and partners took apart his Staples “That was Easy” button and rewired it to say a special statement to one of his sons. I LOVE his creativity, but unfortunately it sounded like a lot of work. It made me think of what I would have the button say to me if I [...]…
You Are Influenced In Ways You Don’t Realize
In today’s excerpt – our memory works in such a way that things that happen to us in one moment influence our behavior after that in ways we don’t realize. It is a process psychologists refer to as priming, and it suggests, for example, that adopting positive language and mannerisms can in fact make us more [...]…
Perception: ER Doctors Always get a Second Chance
In 1946, Solomon Asch did an experiment in which he created 2 lists of attributes that describe an individual. The 2 lists had the same attributes: intelligent, skillful, industrious, determined, practical, and cautious. However list A had one additional attribute: warm, and list B had the additional attribute: cold. After 2 separate groups of people [...]…