Recently I attended a law school commencement and heard one of the better commencement speeches in recent memory. Coming from an attorney and professor, I found it refreshing and enlightening all the same. The speaker outlined how, going forward from this milestone in life, the graduates should seek to retain their humanity. He brought up
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In today’s obituary for early television pioneer, Art Linkletter, he is quoted as saying he credited his conservative older adoptive parents with teaching him to be able to talk with anyone. That’s a talent or skill we could all use. Mr. Linkletter used it to his professional advantage in being able to talk with children
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In a conversation with a physician friend the other evening, he introduced me to a concept I hadn’t heard of before. The three “A”s: Affability Availability Ability Unfortunately, in the example he used, it was a bit of a negative connotation. In the mill that our healthcare industry has become, in some healthcare systems, this
