I was concerned that neither Tony or I hadn’t posted anything to the blog in a few months. I was afraid it was too long between posts. Is it ok to do that, or should there be a regular schedule between posts? My family told me otherwise. Joshua Scharfstein, MD. Continue Reading
Netminder
Play Your Hand
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt. Just how we play the hand” – Randy Pausch – Professor Carnegie Mellon from his book The Last Lecture
The Fool
“Who is more foolish? The Fool? Or the fool who follows him? – Obi-Wan Kenobi/Star Wars
REALITY TV is like RUBBERNECKING
VICARIOUS – Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person. RUBBERNECK – Turn one’s head to stare at something in a foolish manner. SCHADENFREUDE – Pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune. If you are un-aware, reality TV is not real. No really, it is Continue Reading
Change
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great & sudden change.” – Author Mary Shelly, quoted in the Cody, Wyo., Enterprise
Mind Your Brain
As a follow-up to my comments to Tony’s FB post, political comments on FB drive me crazy. As I’ve stated before, most of them are inaccurate, misleading, and out-right dumb. I actually had FB friends stating that Biden had been in office 40 days and he already started a war. Continue Reading
LIFE LIVED
“Only a life lived for others is worth living.” – Albert Einstein
THINK
“Think before you speak, read before you yo think.” – Fran Lebowitz
The Uninvited
There are still people posting false and inaccurate claims on social media. Reading & reposting without taking the time to read or fact check. Folks running to other social media platforms because not everyone on their current platform agrees with them. Now that is a good way to open your Continue Reading
You Pick
“A bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed – while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts but remembers a single sin for years on end.” – Author Vasily Grossman quoted in The New York Review of Books