Quote of the Week

I think that people are people and all of us want to feel appreciated.   This goes beyond the point I was making about doctors being disrespected.   This is not about superficial ego crap.  Forget the fact that the unholy matrimony between doctors and hospitals (who employ them) is a terrible thing for the healthcare system.  We, me included, jumped into bed with them and now suffer the consequences for it.   That is why 40% of us were forgotten on Doctors’ Day.   It is sad but the truth is that we need to take care of this ourselves.  I  think that doctors need to appreciate each other, their staffs and their families a lot more.  In that light, here is a quote, first seen in a Dale Carnegie book:

 I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.