We Recruit For Attitude And Train For

In One Study, Old People Assigned To A Geriatrics Team Stayed Independent For Far Longer, And Were Admitted To The Hospital Less.

What Is Needed, However, Isn't Just That People Working Together Be Nice To Each Other. It Is Discipline. Discipline Is Hard--harder Than Trustworthiness And Skill And Perhaps Even Than Selflessness. We Are By Nature Flawed And Inconstant Creatures. We Can't Even Keep From Snacking Between Meals. We Are Not Built For Discipline. We Are Built For Novelty And Excitement, Not For Careful Attention To Detail. Discipline Is Something We Have To Work At.

Man Is Fallible, But Maybe Men Are Less So.

One Of The Consequences Of If The Affordable Care Act Is Repealed, Is That All Of Us Now Are At Risk Of Being A Preexisting - Of Having A Preexisting Condition Waiting To Happen. Life, Increasingly, Is A Preexisting Condition Waiting To Happen, Now That We Have More And More Of This Data Available.

If I Became Just A Brain In A Jar - As Long As I Can Communicate Back And Forth With People, That Would Be Okay With Me.