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2013 Quality and Safety Forum “Creating a Culture of Quality and Safety” Medical Excellence: Caring Communication, Ethics and Science May 30, 2013.
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2013 Quality and Safety Forum “Creating a Culture of Quality and Safety” Medical Excellence: Caring Communication, Ethics and Science May 30, 2013
Yank D. Coble, M.D. – Forum ChairPresident John Delaney, UNFEli Lerner, M.D., President, DCMSWilliam Maples, M.D. – Program Chair"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle Welcome
High touch: Caring, not just curing A man stricken with disease today is assaulted by the same fears and finds himself searching for the same helping hand as his ancestors did five or ten thousand years ago. He has been told about the clever tools of modern medicine and somewhat vaguely, he expects that by-and-by he will profit by them, but in his hour of trial his desperate want is for someone who is personally committed to him, who has taken up his cause, and who is willing to go to trouble for him. D. EmerickSzilagyi, MD: In Defense of the Art of Medicine, 1965 (with thanks to Dr. Steven Kappes, Milwaukee, WI)
PATIENT CENTERED CARING COMMUNICATION INITIATIVE The Center thanks its generous sponsors and partners for their support for this initiative.
“Patients do not care how much you know, until they know how much you care.”Sir William Osler
Caring, Ethics and Science “The most important thing is caring, so do it first, for the caring Physician best inspires hope and trust.”Sir William Osler
“Science should remain on tap, not on top.” Winston Churchill
“A merry heart does good like a medicine; but a broken spirit dries the bones.” Proverbs 17:22