tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705432279177203509.post464487840519443889..comments2024-03-19T04:04:16.798-07:00Comments on Budd's Blog: Atul and AndreaBuddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03893224951099943306noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705432279177203509.post-38659631009276081382015-09-10T11:34:32.847-07:002015-09-10T11:34:32.847-07:00Budd, I admire your courage to share your regrets,...Budd, I admire your courage to share your regrets, some of which I suspect many of us, not just in healthcare, have in common to some degree. May I recommend another blog similar to yours at it heart? the summer movie Mr. Holmes, also fundamentally about regret and redemption, shrouded in a lot of feeling trying to get through the rational, the thinking for which Mr Holmes was famous and admired, and constrained. Also about the vicissitudes of aging and Mr Holmes' adaptation to it. If you haven't seen it, please do. There is another leit motif in both the movie and Being Mortal, that of the swing of the pendulum, otherwise known as regression to the mean, between intuition and science, whether in healthcare, manufacturing, or care of our loved ones and those for whom we should have love, were we not so rational. During our generation in healthcare, we have witnessed the swing from Marcus Welby and Harry Horwitz, to "empirical, data-driven" decision-making, increasingly driven down to the cellular level, and I do not mean in the Zen sense. For those who have not read Being Mortal, I not only believe it should be perhaps the core text for the first week of all helping professions, but perhaps required reading with an encounter group for all human beings everywhere. It is superb although not quite as vernacular as your blog. :-) Again, thank you for yet another courageous Awakening, Budd. This is the first time I have ever posted to a blog because it was drilled into me as a child, "fools' names and fools' faces, always found in public places." You have moved me. I am proud to be among your friends and colleagues. Thank goodness you are an E.James B. Florey MD MMMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15669064498474160959noreply@blogger.com