“Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.” ThinkingShowsQualityRecordsCuttingEffectsPromiseCostWasteDoctorsRelationPatientMedicalSavingWellnessVagueImprovingImperativesSavingsOathLipstickPublic RelationsPreventionMedical Records Author:Ezekiel Emanuel
“I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.” WorldMadeAgeMy OwnQualityWonderMysteryChildhoodMiddleSpecialPromiseHorrorSceneEvidenceImmortalityVisibleIntensityVagueMiddle AgesHintsSeductiveMenacePlausible Book:MEMOIRS 1925-1950 Source: MEMOIRS 1925-1950
“An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.” PeoplePersonsResponsibilityBreakCircumstancesPromiseBlameForgivingVagueIrresponsible Book:Letters of Ayn Rand Source: Letters of Ayn Rand
“The feedback women are getting at work is amazingly ineffective or vague. You need to signal to your boss or senior colleagues that you want honest feedback, and that you promise not to take it too personally.” WantNeedsHonestPromiseBossVagueSeniorColleaguesSignalsFeedbackHonest Feedback Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett
“When you look at that key question what is President-elect [Donald] Trump going to do, it's hard to glean that from his campaign. The kind of - the promise is vague and sweeping, but vague in places. Also contradictory at times.” LooksKindHardPresidentKeysTrumpPromiseCampaignsVagueContradictorySweeping Author:George Stephanopoulos