(taken from paper journal at BMH)
Michael Phelps' illustration of the idea that everyone can be creative (from class yesterday)
If Micheal Phelps was not allowed to swim -- or rather -- not allowed to swim fast and was forced to swim the average of all the speeds of every other swimmer in the pool -- would he still swim? Would he swim "averagely" only for a period of time after which he would become bored or so frustrated that he would no longer swim at all? Is that what happens to creativity of the vast majority of people? Do they become so frustrated that they towel off and leave the pool entirely?
What if creativity were valued in the medical community? What if the only protocol was to make the patient healthy, no matter what the treatment, or insurance coverage, or history of the treatment's success, etc? Would there be fewer unhealthy people because they would seek treatment sooner? Would fewere people fear the system and the ridigity of medicine? Would there be more creative treatments geared toward the individual rather than an average fix for the masses? There are many industries (beside education) where creativity could be utilized to make thing much, much better.
The word "creativity" so often conjures up fear. Creativity necessitates the artsy/fartsy genre, but much creativity is problem solving and that is functional and industrial and mainstream. Why are creatives thought to be outliers when they should really be the norm?
Missed TCOM 601 due to the lack of communication in the medical parallel universe where the patient (and his family) have no schedule, no agenda and no life other than to be available at the medical staff's beck and call. How hard would it be to provide at least a general idea (morning, afternoon, night) of when a physician's call may occur? This may be novel, but wouldn't that ... shouldn't that just be common courtesy? Why do we let "white coats" do this to us?
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