Chuck Callahan

Ducere, Docere, Deservire: To Lead, To Teach, To Serve

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Nil satis nisi optimum - "Nothing but the best is good enough" Motto of Everton Football Club. Good enough for Everton - Good enough for health care!

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So in the Libyan fable it is told
That once an eagle, stricken with an arrow,
Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
“With our own feathers, not by others’ hands,
Are we now smitten.”

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"Nursing is the therapeutic use of self." (COL Pat Nishimoto, Tripler Army Medical Center c.2000) Happy Nurses Week and Florence Nightingale's Birthday!

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The root cause of almost all people problems is the basic communication problem- people do not listen with empathy; they listen from within their autobiography. Stephen Covey

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
(Said the man 65 days away from his 65th birthday hoping not to stop hard work worth doing anytime soon!)

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"A real leader is somebody who help us to overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own." David Foster Wallace

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"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant." Max De Pree, CEO Herman Miller (Tribute to the leaders of Baltimore's BCCFH COVID Task Force - last clinical day Friday, 3-24-23!)

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Doubters do not achieve. Skeptics do not contribute. Cynics do not create.
Calvin Coolidge (Framed over the desk of then Lieutenant - later LTG - Victor Krulak ~1938).

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"Leadership is about creating change that you believe in." (Seth Godin, Tribes 2008... Thanks for the book recommendation COL Will Bimson!)

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Ex Fide Fortis - From faith/trust strength. In a highly functional team-like the soon to close Maryland BCCFH COVID Task Force-trust is fundamental. Covey says that lack of trust slows things down - something we could not afford when tackling a pandemic.

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There are two kinds of injustice, the positive injustice of the aggressor and the negative injustice of neglecting to defend those who are wronged.
Cicero

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He concluded musing to self, "Do justly: Love mercy; Walk humbly; This is enough for You to know and to do. The World is a better one than You deserve; strive to make Your Self more worthy of it." I'll get the bivalent. My fifth COVID vax. Here's to the COVID "new normal."

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W/ intro of the bivalent vaccine for COVID-19 & immunity questions, John Adams' note to his g-daughter comes to mind (talking smallpox vax): "The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently, I think and the more anxiously I inquire; the less I seem to know" (1/24/1820).

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@JeromeAdamsMD How bad December ‘21 and January ‘22 would have been with BA.1 if we hadn’t had the vaccines!

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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. H. Jackson Brown Jr. (Recited this quote several times this weekend - blessing of having an occupation that overlaps with your vocation!)

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“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?” George Eliot - Mourning the world’s loss of Dr Paul Farmer.

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

#Frodo: “I wish it need not have happened in my time.”

#Gandalf: “So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
#Tolkien #FotR #LotR

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Baltimore: The future is here! Replacing “broken windows” with stained glass beauty! Thanks to JR and the Juice Lab Company in Hollins Market! Stop by and get healthy!

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Great new single from my daughter Katie Callahan https://t.co/M5G5YIgw2O

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Great new single by Katie Callahan! (Yes! That's my amazing daughter!) https://t.co/tCNrcEQlQH