An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. - Anonymous The lab tech will tell you it's not properly labeled, but that's another blog. Merriam Webster defines optimism as ''an inclination to put the most favorable construction upon ...

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are mine personally, and are not necessarily representative of Texas Health Resources (THR) or its subsidiaries. Last week, one of our hospitals went live on CPOE. My boss and I were there as part of the ribbon-cutting ceremony and to commend IT and the hospital for their hard work. When we met in ...

Wow, what a week National Respiratory Care Week was! I hope you had as much fun and excitement as my staff and I did during this wonderful week where we have an opportunity to express our appreciation to staff members for the outstanding work they do every day throughout the year. I started this wonderful and exciting week with a visit to the RT ...

''Scott refuses to define the word equitable,'' someone once complained about me. The American Heritage dictionary defines equitable as ''just and impartial,'' then tells us to see fair. Fair, unsurprisingly, is defined as ''just to all parties; equitable.'' Ah, but wait! Ain't equitable one of them hifalutin legal terms? It sure sounds like ...

We are fast approaching the holiday season, and it is hard to believe it's almost here already. As managers, making the holidays festive for our staff in the workplace should be a common practice. Not everyone enjoys coming to work during the holiday season, but some warm touches around the department can make working a little bit more ...

I posted a blog recently about Software Advice posting a survey on its site. Here's the results of their survey about whether stimulus money for electronic health record/electronic medical record (EHR/EMR) adoption was creating any buyers or just tire-kickers. Software Advice said that Oct. 30 marked the close of the first reporting period for ...

As a kid I heard Talk is cheap, meaning that talking about doing something is the easy part. Boy, was that the truth! My homework and chores didn't get themselves done, no matter how much I talked about doing them or (often enough) why I hadn't. And there was NO BASEBALL until they were done. Imagine children forming committees, having ...

 Yes, many of you have been wondering about the fears and outcomes of the H1N1 vaccines and what to expect.  I can tell you first hand after seeing more than 2,200 H1N1 vaccines given here what to expect. First, the vaccine comes in the live virus nasal mist version and the dead virus injection version. As of this writing over ...

Respiratory therapists are some of the brightest, talented, selfless and caring people I know. They work long hours, receive less pay than others with our workload and education, and are grossly underappreciated. Although we are needed for so many things, we usually end up in a broom closet-sized office somewhere at the end of a hallway located ...

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are mine personally, and are not necessarily representative of Texas Health Resources (THR) or its subsidiaries. ''It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the ...