Inhalation injury and the interventional pulmonologist posted on 2018-08-05
The disastrous fires in Greece have claimed 91 lives, and the current heat wave threatening Europe has placed environmental authorities and firefighters on high alert. Here in the United States, in my home state of California, 18 fires are still burning. Seven civilians and 4 firefighters have already been killed as the fires continue to [Read More]
Trust posted on 2018-07-19
Trust is usually defined as a willingness to rely on the actions of another party. In this sense, it is a behavior more than it is an idea. Trust can also spring from a choice to care for another person, even at one’s own expense. Rock climbing, in my opinion, illustrates trust in its most [Read More]
Open Horizons posted on 2018-06-28
Less than 24 hours after leaving the WABIP World Congress in Rochester Minnesota, I spent a day climbing to a wonderful spot high above a bed of clouds in Southern California. An open horizon, blue skies and a soft wind caressed my face as I stood virtually alone on a rocky peak. Pausing just long [Read More]
Power systems and resistance to change posted on 2018-06-11
“Progress is the nice word we like to use. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.” (Robert F. Kennedy, May 25, 1964, New York Hilton Hotel, Conference of Mayors). June 6, 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by the severely disturbed Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador [Read More]
The Universal Subjective: Justification for using objective assessments posted on 2018-06-10
In Immanuel Kant’s 1790 treatise, The Critique of Judgement, the German philosopher writes of beauty, taste and aesthetic judgement, stating “As regards the agreeable, everyone concedes that this judgement, which he bases on a private feeling, and in which he declares that the object pleases him, is restricted to him personally.” This reminds me of [Read More]