Atul Gawande’s recent book, Being Mortal:Medicine and What Matters in the End, takes a good look at how we, and the medical community, deal with people in the later years of their lives. For those of us with aging parents or who ourselves are already past the midpoint, whatever that may be, there are some
You may have seen the story coming from the University of Texas and the mystery of 100 missing brains. It seems they were destroyed in 2002. They were getting rid of “biological waste” either due to lack of use or no longer needed for neuroscience research. Regardless of the reasons, it started my brain to
Earlier this month, we held our annual Santa Fe Seminar with about 30 people from all over the country in attendance. There was a contingent from California but also people from the Midwest and East as well. Leadership and Design (www.leadershipanddesign.org) holds a number of workshops, seminars and gatherings and the one in Santa Fe
How well is it working? Here are four indicators that you might review to get a better idea of where things stand according to these criteria. They may suggest where you might want to consider a shift to something different in order to perform at a more efficient or productive level. Structure – How is
(Moving toward Thanksgiving, November 27, 2014) This phrase, “less is more” appeared in a love poem (line78) in 1855 by Robert Browning , “Andrea del Sarto” called The Faultless Painter. The phrase was adopted by Mies van der Rohe, an architect whom I studied briefly in an undergraduate course called “The House.” He, along with
“6429” More observations, experience and impressions – We walk into the day surgery unit at the local, regional, medical center at 5:30 AM Monday morning and are given a card with our number on it, #6429. There are codes below the number that can give an update on the patient’s status, provided somewhere on a
