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<\/a>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAFP <\/strong><\/p>\nAnother one!<\/p>\n
Somewhere in the darkest, hidden, benighted part of this universe…there exists a great list maker.<\/p>\n
There simply has to be one.<\/p>\n
This individual is sequestered away, without a committee, inquiry board or acronymic agency to keep him\/her in check.<\/p>\n
It has become nearly impossible to peruse email or perform a search without finding “the ten best.” Why is it always ten? What is so creative…so magical…so edifying about ten? Why not six or 71?<\/p>\n
Therefore, as a duly registered, board certified, member of the Council of Curmudgeons, I now propose my ten best list.<\/p>\n
A Curmudgeon’s Ten Best Lists<\/p>\n
Actually, after thinking for hours, soaking in a tub, sampling chocolate, flipping TV channels, this curmudgeon found it easier to come up with the ten worst lists…
\nSo…A Curmudgeon’s Ten Worst Lists (not in any order of worstness:<\/p>\n
1. The Ten worst decisions\/tweets\/actions by any public figure in the past 17 minutes.<\/p>\n
2. The Ten worst things your physician’s electronic health record has done to him in the past 32.6 seconds.<\/p>\n
3. The Ten worst (or actually stupid) things somebody has told you that have been found on the internet to “inform” you of what is really happening in the world<\/p>\n
4. The Ten worst “investigations” and time wasting scouring of people you have seen on television in the past 3.5 days<\/p>\n
5. The Ten worst reasons to go into whatever profession you are currently in.<\/p>\n
6. The Ten worst conferences\/ meetings\/webinars that you have ever been coerced into attending.<\/p>\n
7. The Ten worst lies\/misrepresentations\/distortions that have been presented as “facts” that you have heard in the past 39.8 minutes.<\/p>\n
8. The Ten Worst reasons not to vote…if you can find even one reason (which curmudgeons across eternity doubt)<\/p>\n
9. The Ten Worst reasons to teach by rote and to avoid fostering critical thinking<\/p>\n
10. The Ten worst reasons to stick your head in the sand at this time<\/p>\n
(Feel free to add your ten best corrections, comments, complaints and insults. Whether or not there is a curmudgeonly response, these are always welcome to a curmudgeon)<\/p>\n
Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae is Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D., a physician-satirist. This column originally appeared on SERMO, the leading global social network for doctors.<\/p>\n
SERMO www.sermo.com<\/a> \u201ctalk real world medicine\u201d<\/p>\n
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