In General

Quarantines: A Cheap Price of Admission for Electronic Client Files

Does your practice or organization utilize a computer quarantine process? If not, after reading this, you will! The day began in a typical manner, reviewing information recently received from a client to determine next steps.  These records included printed documents, two CDs, and a USB jump drive (also known as a “flash” or “thumb” drive). So far, so good… After …

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Taking Responsibility

Last week a parcel delivery truck raced down our street, a very short street with three houses on each side.  I remembered it from every other night because the truck was traveling so fast, and right in front of my house, there was a loud bang as he passed.  I looked out to see if the truck had hit something, …

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Homeless Vet's Act A Sign Of Doing The Right Thing

Here’s a great story illustrating how doing the right thing can lead to greater rewards. I first heard this story last week at a local restaurant having breakfast with my son.  I searched to find the story, and to my surprise it occurred just as they other patrons had described. A homeless man found a wallet containing cash, and faced …

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Teaching Right From Wrong – A Boy Scouts Lesson

This past weekend I camped with the Boy Scouts.  On Saturday several classes were organized, including a hike to find the lost village. As we hiked off the property and towards private property, the Assistant Scout Master leading the hike stopped our group just within the entrance to the property, and just after we passed two parked trucks.  He indicated …

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Accountibility Redeemed – Just another night of damage to our vehicle

Quietly eating dinner tonight with my family, the waiter came to our table and asked if we own a certain vehicle in their parking lot.  I could tell before he even came over this wasn’t going to be good news.  The waiter told us someone just struck our vehicle in the lot, and then drove away, leaving our damaged vehicle …

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