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The Business of
Health Care Report
In our often hectic world, many of us are hard-pressed to find
the time to slow down, gather our loved ones around us and simply be still - even for just a little while. And too
many of us compound our stress by trying to achieve a "perfect" holiday, only to feel exhausted and irritable when
things don't work out exactly as we had planned. That's not healthy for our minds -- or our bodies. Holidays, instead, can be life's great rejuvenators. Regardless
of cultural or religious beliefs, regardless of station in life, days that are set aside for fellowship and introspection
can do a great deal more than provide a day off from work or school. Or for seeing how much stuffing we can eat. Holidays can be conduits between what we spend much of our lives
working to be and what we are. Thanksgiving in particular provides an opportunity for each of us
to take stock of our blessings and to contemplate how we are living our lives. Are we doing everything we can for our
families? Are we serving our communities? Are we giving something back to the world? Holidays, if we let them, can be tremendously effective checkpoints
in life - stationed along the way as reminders of what we're living and working for. For sure they are - and should be -- a time of festivity and joy.
But perhaps a holiday's greatest benefit is realized when we simply slow down, embrace our families and friends, and
give thanks. The more than 16,000 employees, 4,000 medical staff physicians and
1,500 volunteers of Texas Health Resources and its family of hospitals - Harris Methodist Hospitals, Presbyterian
Healthcare System and Arlington Memorial - hope you can spend some quiet time this holiday season. And we wish you a very happy Thanksgiving. For Texas Health Resources
and its family of hospitals - Harris Methodist Hospitals, Presbyterian
Healthcare System and Arlington Memorial Hospital - I'm CEO Doug
Hawthorne with "The Business of Health Care Report" on NewsRadio
1080 KRLD.
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2002 Texas Health Resources |
I'm Doug Hawthorne, President and CEO of Texas Health Resources, with
"The Business of Health Care Report" on 