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It’s a day for the blues. There’s nothing like a toe-tapper about a mass casualty event. When it comes down to it, that’s all the blues are about: making the insufferable thing bearable. In High Water Everywhere, Charley Patton sang about the 1927 Mississippi levee break that displaced tens of thousands. Patton lived on Dockery’s […]
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. Mr. Rogers
Lee Health is evacuating up to 400 patients to hospitals in Collier County because of water pressure losses at two of its campuses. More patients will be transferred in the coming days as beds are found, said Dr. Larry Antonucci, president and chief executive officer of Lee Health. When Lee Health says “campuses” they mean […]
I posted this picture on September 15, 2017, when Hurricane Irma rolled in. It has happened again. I don’t have much to add about the ongoing devastation from Hurricane Ian that hit five years later. Except, that it is much worse. The word is that all Lee County hospitals (owned and operated by the same […]
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway Five years ago, I wrote a post about the disorientation caused by the loss of listening and hearing as part of a series on the importance of our five senses. You can find it here. There’s […]
Bart and I were sitting around an early morning campfire waiting for the day lineup to start when this white kid in dreadlocks and a hangdog look walked out of the Suwanee mist. “Was I here last night? Have you seen my car keys?” He was despondent and couldn’t remember where he’d been the night […]
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Teddy Roosevelt
“There are no second acts in American lives.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
When I represented hospitals, my boss used to stress bedside manner as the most effective risk management. It’s been forty years and the industry is still trying to figure out a way to make that stick. Healthcare is fully embracing the concept of consumerism, and with that comes the need for consumer and patient satisfaction—and […]
