If you can’t measure, you can’t manage People still argue, who said it If you have a goal, and commit a significant portion of your energy…
Emotional Goals to Be Fit at 80
Here are my emotional goals: *By that age, I have to know my strengths and my weaknesses. *I have to be able to listen when the…
How to Be Fit at 80
When I think of a fit person at 80, I don’t see a muscular old man with a perfect white beard, showing his biceps and six-pack,…
Is it Good to Live to a 100? Life Span vs Health Span
Methuselah lived to be 969. After the first 100, I imagine, his life had to be miserable. All his peers were gone, and the poor fellow…
Stages Of Life, And How To Live To Get To The Last One .
This year, I am starting my ninth decade of life. And I am proud of each of them. More often than not, people in my age…
Healthcare: Feeding of The Hungry Giant
The complexity of our health care delivery system is at the root of the problem. The chain of care starts with a patient, as it should….
Does a Stressful Job Shorten Your Life?
“It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.”―Hans Selye, Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist, author of “The Stress of Life” Let’s see. Michael DeBakey died 2…
Forty-five years of cardiac surgery
In my gym, I meet the best people, and have the most interesting conversations, in the jacuzzi. It’s located in a corner of the large pool…
Would You Have the Courage to Stop Treatment of the Advanced Cancer?
We’ve known each other for close to forty years. She was a good friend of mine and a former wife of my close buddy. I visited…