Leadership: A Personal Story
In this October 2025 podcast edition, Dr. Thomas White and Mr. Gregory Griggs, our NCAFP CEO, discuss leadership in all its various forms, situations, and life arenas. Their insights got me to thinking about my own experiences with leadership. I wish I could say that I’ve been a consistently good leader, but I haven’t. Like […]
PCP. What’s in a Name?
In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, Juliet Capulet says that she doesn’t care that Romeo’s last name is Montague. She doesn’t care that her lover comes from a rival family. She offers this famous phrase: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” A heartfelt […]
Trust
A Different Road Taken
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost Most of us physicians, including myself, have had a rather linear path to becoming a doctor. College, then straight into medical school, then residency, then practice. Looking back, my own training journey […]
Time, our most precious resource.
An old Seth Thomas clock bought at a flea market. It doesn’t work, doesn’t tell time; but it looks stately on the hallway table. I own the clock but I don’t own what it measures. Time is not owned. Rather it is a gift, sometimes a burden, always in short supply. In this December […]