I stole this from Jim Jarmusch.
“the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.” - Bill Cosby
(via theyuniversity)
New Healthcare Law Might Make Your Doctor More Informed, Efficient, Responsive. The Washington Post
“In many respects, American doctors today labor much the way their counterparts did 50 years ago.
Most are in practices with five or fewer other physicians. They keep their records on paper in longhand. When they need to consult a colleague, they reach for the telephone. They bill for each visit. They have little idea about how their skills compare to those of fellow practitioners, nor do most know what their patients really think about the care they give.
The new health-care law aims to change most of that.”
(Interested in knowing more about the American healthcare system and more importantly the healthcare system here. Do we face the same problems? to what extent? what have we done to ‘coordinate’ healthcare? copmlicated.
gah at the same time I’m lazy. Finding out will mean having to find out how to find out.)
Doctor and Patient - Do Women Make Better Doctors? NY Times
“More and more schools are offering courses that teach young doctors how to offer better counseling and prevention, provide shared decision-making and pay increased attention to how an illness and its treatment are affecting a patient, skills found in studies to be present more often in female physicians.
“But it’s not about trying to become a woman,” Dr. Bertakis reflected. “It’s about learning behaviors.” “
‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling
‘IF’ BY RUDYARD KIPLING
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man my son!
breathtaking. one day, hopefully. (:
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reblog from boocanceryousuck.tumblr
okay. normally i’m not a big fan of a lot of the breast cancer sites out there. especially the ones aimed at younger people with cancer. i know that sounds horrible, but some of them just don’t do it for me. a friend forwarded me this site tonight and at first i wasn’t totally into it. it’s mainly based around a snow boarding/skiing community so i wasn’t sure if there would be anything i’d really be interested in. i do like the tips for early detection and their mission to raise awareness through self exams and an active lifestyle. then i found this girls story about her own struggle with the disease. cancer ended up taking her life but i found her honesty was inspiring. scary, but inspiring. it’s worth a read.
