"Headquarters in the Saddle."

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Source : John Pope (1998). “The Military Memoirs of General John Pope”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

John Pope

#War Quotes #Civil War Quotes #Saddles Quotes

“I resisted using EHRs while an internist in Boston, as I wrote in my blog, â€˜Why Be a Meaningful User.â€™ Over time, however, I found that working with health IT made me a better and safer physician. Most importantly, my patients received better, safer care and improved outcomes.”
“It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means they find their way into the blood. The propensity exhibited by the leukocytes for picking up inorganic granules is well known, and that they may be able not only to pick up but to assimilate, and so dispose of, the bacteria which come in their way does not seem to me very improbable in view of the fact that amoebae, which resemble them so closely, feed upon bacteria and similar organisms.”
“The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.”
“Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.”
“American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.”
“The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled).”
“...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423”
“We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is.”

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