Rejecting arrogance

Rejecting arrogance

Baseball players, works of art and rare postage stamps have value in the market place partially as a function of their rarity. What is it about human nature that drives some to chase a postage stamp or coin, precisely because it is rare, and others of us to crave the stamp of approval that comes with publishing a paper in a prestige journal? It is not uncommon for prestige-seeking journals (or ...

Medical arrogance.

attracted more criticism than usual. Some has been justified. A few doctors have behaved badly; some have been incompetent or rude, libidinous, dishonourable, even dangerous. That it is a small minority that behaves in this way tends to get overlooked: the profession as a whole is discredited. As Shaw wrote: ‘As to the honour and conscience of doctors, they have as much as any other class of me...

Naïve Arrogance and Vulnerability

name from the village of his birth, was considered second only to Michelangelo among his 16th century peers. In Italy, Pontormo was among the first exponents of Mannerism, a style of painting that stressed artifice over realism. The National Gallery of Art offers this view: “Mannerism’s artificiality—its bizarre, sometimes acid color, its illogical compression of space, the elongated proportion...

Reducing Arrogance in Public Debate

Professional arrogance and public misunderstanding.

Any assessment of the impact of required request legislation on organ and tissue procurement must begin by defining required request laws. Of the forty-one states that have passed such laws during the past three years, approximately, half have enacted strong required request policies. These states have mandated that hospital administrators be responsible for insuring that next-of-kin or legal g...