Good morning!! We hope today’s (Tuesday) Thots find you in good health and warmth. We have power and the office is warming up. We’ll be open regular hours for the rest of the week. I had a prepared Thot for today, but will share it with you next week. Instead I have decided to share […]
Our Thoughts of the Week
The Expectation of Health
Picture yourself running through a field that you’ve run through before. It’s a wide open space and there are parts you’ve never explored. Today you come upon a wall with the words “EXPECTATION” written on it. You try many times to jump up and pull yourself to the top of the wall, but each time, […]
Medical Numbers
Could you imagine how much money you would have to have to be able to spend $609,000 a day? What would you expect to receive for that amount of money? Who has that kind of money to spend, especially during a “recession”? According to the latest issue of Time magazine, in the first 6 months […]
Failure
Do you accept failures as truth?Many of us do and it is unfortunate.When you accept a failure as truth you limit your potential and artificially lower the “norm.” It is no more evident than in health care.Our western society has developed a system of health care based on failures and accepted it as normal and […]
How to Empty a Hospital
There are two reasons someone leaves a hospital, either they’ve died or they’ve recovered.And we are about to help both sets of people. Let’s start with some numbers.The AMA reports that the number four cause of death in America is hospital errors.When you combine that with the errors made by doctors and side effects due […]
What the Trees Said to Me
I was driving into the office this morning and noticing how the trees are all changing colors. The vibrancy of the season will be upon us this weekend and into next week. But the trees don’t ask each other “hey how are you losing your leaves this year? Where are you going to put them?” […]
