Calendar for RME

Calendar

NRHA Conferences at http://199.237.254.34/conferences/sub/calendar.html

STFM Conferences at http://www.stfm.org/st_cal2.html

There is a very fine line between participatory democracy and decisional paralysis. Bruce Amundson, M.D.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one insists on trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." GBShaw in The Revolutionist's Handbook

Of course the credit for all the progress goes to the next generation who a) translates what the unreasonable man said, and b) actualized all that the visionaries were prevented from doing.

Rural Medical Schools and other timely news

Monthly Fun

The Cradle to Grave Approach Notify the admissions committee, we have an early admission for the medical school class of 2021. As you all know I have beaten you over the head with the cradle to grave approach for producing more rural physicians by impacting on students of all levels, residents, practitioners, etc. I think I can now lay a claim to the earliest intervention to graduate a rural doctor. At 6 AM this morning, I delivered Logan Christopher Kohl, son of Sean, grandson of Randy, rural physician for Albion for years. Considering that Randy was a rural doc, and his two sons are committed that way, I can lay claim to truly starting out a rural doc from the cradle. RCB Crime wave hits rural town, poetry, Life magazine on Country Doc

Quotes for Practitioners, Educators, Rural, or Otherwise

"a Carefull doctor is a real human bean."- Driekus Human in a grade 4 essay, 1986. Submitted by Dr T McD Kluyts Gezina, PRETORIA. 0031I

I hate the ones (patient encounters) when I leave and think that I am the one that needs the MRI Scan - John Smith MD

After describing a difficult day, my medical student listened to my lament, "Sometimes the glass is half full, sometimes it is half empty." To this he added, "and sometimes it is half-empty and someone is urinating in it." Brandon Jahnke, M-1

That’s one of the reasons that I did not want to be a physician’s assistant, I did not want to have to put up with doctors. Walter Wood, FP PGY-1 in 1999

You know what really bites? When you are taking a leak and you look down and all you can see is your white coat. Chris Madden FP PGY-3 in 1999

"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions." Charles F. Kettering

As a society based on capitalism, it is time that society move to the next level - capitalism with compassion! Roger Hofford, M.D. regarding pharmaceutical companies 1/8/99 For more about capitalism see below.

"Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." Joseph Stalin

Clearly many groups take aim at an agenda, perhaps the major question in American education is, "Who is holding the reins?" - RCB

People should be able to recreate but not all people should be able to procreate. by Gary Smith, M.D., one of our most productive residents, personally and professionally. I like this coming from him better than from media guru Ted Turner, who has at least 4 children by different wives and attempts to prevent others from having the same privileges he enjoyed.