I have no illusions about medicine and it's ability to intervene in people's lives. It is necessary for our world to have a resource to go to when the body doesn't cooperate or fails.
Yet, I am constantly reminded of the failures of the system to manage the simple tasks presented. The system has become so ruthless, inefficient, redundant, pedantic and cost ineffective and I see no way out except out.
Once again I see greater attention to money, building monumental buildings and processes than I do to people and human resources. I become more and more saddened by the system and it's results. Health is not really about symptom management.
"Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. and above all, it takes a willingness to try." - Atul Gawande
I'd throw in that it takes enlightened leadership unscathed by systems, predetermined notions and despotic cronyism. But I digress.
Blogging the trek of an non-traditional, older dude through a traditional physician educational process in a non-traditional world. Some people go out and buy a muscle car for their midlife crisis (I miss my '70 Camaro), but I decided to go to medical school. It is in God's hands and it's a RUSH.
Being a 50 something medical-school graduate now isn't as "nuts" as everyone seems to think. Just getting prepared for the rest of my life
"Life isn't about finding yourself; It's about creating yourself" - George Bernard Shaw
"Life isn't about finding yourself; It's about creating yourself" - George Bernard Shaw
Just another Blue Man...
"One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one’s time in religious offerings to the gods." -Dhammapada
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. 
— James Thurber
"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all." - Helen Keller
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James Bryant Conant (1893-1978), Chemist and educator
