by marshal | Feb 22, 2006 | Lessons Learned, Purity
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...
by marshal | Feb 15, 2006 | Lessons Learned, Love
Athletic competition can bring great delight to my heart. A football game won in the last seconds or a round of golf decided on the last hole breathes energy into me. A natural progression of thought during competition is comparison. I might compare two basketball...
by marshal | Feb 8, 2006 | Competence, Lessons Learned
Do you remember the story of the Cherokee Indian walking down 5th Avenue in Manhattan with a New York businessman? Suddenly the Indian stopped and said, "Did you hear that?" The business man asked, "Hear what?" "That cricket" replied the...
by marshal | Feb 1, 2006 | Lessons Learned, Priorities
The hustle and chaos of the emergency department – telephone calls, ambulance reports, laboratory tests and nurse's requests – could, at times, divert my attention from the critical to the less important. When attending to details in the emergency...
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