Mea sententia...

Mea Sententia translates roughly as 'My Opinion' and has been my intermittent blog since 2011. Much of my writing is about medical issues, but my topics range through philosophy, behavioral and decision making, management, humor, and personal/family anecdotes.

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Inertia

Submitted by PeterElias on Thu, 02/08/2018 - 06:00

The problem with bureaucracy is reluctance to respond to change. Its motto is 'Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim …'  It just can't pull the trigger! 

(Anonymous)

 

status quo

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    • Management

Frozen pipes and PTSD

Submitted by PeterElias on Mon, 02/05/2018 - 06:00

I know when and why I developed PTSD (Pipe Traumatic Stress Disorder).

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    • Personal anecdote

My nightmare on snowshoes

Submitted by PeterElias on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 06:00

I love to snowshoe in the fields and woods behind my house.

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    • Personal anecdote
    • Recreation

My Marlboro moment

Submitted by PeterElias on Mon, 01/29/2018 - 06:00

If you grew up in a smoking household back in the 1950s, you probably experimented with cigarettes on the sly.   I know I did, in elementary school.

 

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    • Personal anecdote

Bottlenecks

Submitted by PeterElias on Thu, 01/25/2018 - 06:00

The bottleneck is always the top of the bottle. 

- Peter Drucker

 

leaders

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Lip swelling

Submitted by PeterElias on Mon, 01/22/2018 - 06:00

The message on my door was: “Mrs. Grantham wants biopsy report sent to dermatologist. None in her chart.” 

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    • Medicine

Argument

Submitted by PeterElias on Thu, 01/18/2018 - 06:00

"The aim of argument and of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

- Joseph Joubert

 

debate 

 

 

 

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    • Philosophy and ethics

The enemy...

Submitted by PeterElias on Mon, 01/15/2018 - 06:00

We have met the enemy...

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    • Humor

Getting old

Submitted by PeterElias on Thu, 01/11/2018 - 06:00

“There’s no virtue in being old, it just takes a long time.” — Robert A. Heinlein

 

Melted candles

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#MeToo

Submitted by PeterElias on Mon, 01/08/2018 - 06:00

Recent events and commentary have led me to revisit and reprocess my personal experience of being the target of sexual harassment, something I have not spoken of for a quarter century.

 

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