High Performance
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” —Will Durant
“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.” –Vince Lombardi
CRM & Making Things Happen
“Slow is smooth, smooth is fast” –Scott Weingart (but sometimes, fast is fast)
“Don’t just do something, stand there” –Malcolm Fisher
“Amateurs talk strategy; experts talk logistics.” –Gen. Omar Bradley
Resuscitation
“You can resuscitate a patient with sterile dog piss if you want – just give the right amount of it” –Sir Malcolm Fisher
“There is no half-assing in my ED. Only maximally aggressive care – be it curative or palliative.” –Scott Weingart
“There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a 14G needle and a good strong arm.” –Unknown
“Sepsis kills! … but it doesn’t kill Patients who don’t have Sepsis.” –Cliff Reid
“The perfect resuscitation represents the BEST YOU interacting efficiently with an OPTIMAL TEAM in an IDEAL ENVIRONMENT to provide EXPERT RESUSCITATION to a patient with a REVERSIBLE LIFE-THREATENING presentation” –Cliff Reid
“Are my intentions honorable?” –John Hinds
Medizin allgemein
“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” –William Osler
“Clarke’s first law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist or physician states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” –Arthur C. Clarke (Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination)
“The patient can have as many diagnoses as they damn well please”
“First, do no harm.”
Science allgemein
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” –George Box
“Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.” –W. Edwards Deming