Management principles

On the grounds that if you get work done well and quickly, you will be rewarded with more work, IE has been challenged to go above and beyond with her fundraising efforts for the Nation's Triathlon. If you've got some spare change rattling around and think that it would be peachy to improve the chances for people diagnosed with leukemia or lymphoma, pop over to her site and make a donation.

As regular readers and friends know, I was a teenage lymphoma patient, which involved many aspects of craptacularity. I was also insanely, ridiculously, play-the-lottery-today lucky in my doctor. Il Padre one day asked him how, since we could call Dr. G at 3 AM and always get an answer; he did rounds every day, including all the holidays; he took as much time as patients and their families wanted when there was information to share; he never missed a chance to comfort someone who needed it; he ran four miles a day; he had a family of his own; and he attended services for any patient who died, he stayed in the field without burning out. Dr. G looked at him steadily and said, "When I started in practice, the death rate for pediatric lymphoma and leukemia was about 90%. Now it's 45% and falling. That's why. And that's how."

Help IE fight the good fight, y'all. Small changes matter.