Avoid Boring Conversations

Time is too precious to be bored. Learn something from everyone you meet. Everyone has an interesting story. If listless conversations or people frustrate you, move on. Seek more interesting friends and associates. Avoid tedium.

I Become an Orphan

My father had what is now known as bipolar disorder, his moods would swing from high to low. He was a small brown man with curly dark hair a quick grin that showed white teeth with a gap between the two incisors. People called him “Hap” because when he was happy he was very happy and he made joyous those around him, except my mother. He had a tendency to buy red Cadillac when he had no money. He would somehow talk the dealer into letting him have the car with no down payment and no credit. My mother would then find herself with a huge bill for a red Cadillac. Collectors quickly learned our name and address and just as quickly, we would move to another city. The longest we stayed in one town was six months. This rapid departure was caused by two things—no money to pay for red cavallas and my father’s tendency to become bored with his job. He was a pipe fitter for Dow Chemical. For a short time, he drove a candy truck. He worked in bee yards and on pipelines. He was a roustabout on oilrigs and wharfs. He loaded lumber, hauled lumber, and a plainer of logs into lumber. Any thing that didn’t require schooling he could do—at least for six months. When my father wasn’t moving from job to job he was moving from hospital to hospital. He was a patient in every VA hospital in Texas. He was treated there for depression and combat stress. He was a tail gunner in the US Air Force during WW II. He was never treated for mania. I remember looking in on him in the hospital. I stood on a chair up to a small windowpane in a door and looked into a small room. He was sitting hunched over on an army cot, sobbing uncontrolably.

            My mother sobbed a lot too. About a week before Christmas, my father wasn’t at home. He wasn’t at home a great deal of the time. Where he was no one said. Indeed he was gone so much of the time that to have him home was unusual. That Christmas season I was already in bed when I heard a loud knock on the door. My mother answered. There was a loud and insistent man outside, yelling at my mother. She began crying. A lay in bed puzzled, not knowing what to do. After awhile the man left. Many years later, I realized the man was a bill collector. That must be a terrible job, making young women cry at Christmas time.

            When I was nine years old, my mother could stand it no more. She divorced him. It was sometime in the late afternoon when he came in the house crying. He hugged me and said he was going to miss me. I thought this was strange because I was always missing him. I never saw him again.

            My grandfather and grandmother had abandoned my mother when she became pregnant with me and was not married. My mother always felt neglected by her family. She was the middle child of five. Her three brothers and one sister were just as smart as she was and she was very smart. She graduated from college when she was nineteen and immediately began teaching school. She complained that her mother and father failed to attend her college graduation. They attended everyone else’s graduation, but not hers.

            Because my mother felt neglected—she was aloof and quiet. The rest of the family was rambunctious and gregarious. When you are quite in a family of eccentrics, you begin to develop an inferiority complex and you become a wallflower. When my mother met a GI bound for England, she no longer felt neglected. He paid attention to her. He was uneducated, but fun. They got together and made me. He left for England and she was sent to Amarillo 750 miles from her home to have me. She stayed with a distant cousin who didn’t like her and made her leave as soon I was born. My grandparents, ashamed of my mother’s dalliance refused to ever see my mother again. They never saw me. When my mother was killed in an automobile accident, I became an orphan when I was eleven.

            When you are eleven years old and an orphan no one wants you. Every Christmas time infertile couples would come by the orphanage to choose a child. I guess they decided to get a child instead of a puppy for Christmas. They always choose the infants and the cute toddlers. They ignored me.

            I was surprised when Dr. Coleman picked me. I was sixteen. He seemed to like me. His wife tolerated me. He would play catch with me in the back yard. He was the only surgeon in a small town. He let me be his first assistant. He would take out gall bladders and stomachs that were riddled with ulcers. He would repair abdominal aneurisms. He world repair hips, do mastectomies, drill holes in the head to remove blood clots on the brain. I was his first assistant. I was happy and then he died from a heart attack just after he had let me sew up a man whose hernia he had repaired. He came out of the operating room bragging on me, telling me I had the hands of a surgeon and one day I would go to medical school and then come back to help him do surgery when I got my MD. He was talking and then he wasn’t. After he died, I returned to the orphanage. 

Courtesy Improves Scheduled Appointments

Always be on time. It's polite.
Always be on time. It's the right thing to do.
Always be on time. It saves time.
Always leave before your time is up. It's respectful.
What if people make you wait longer than is usual¬ly expected? Let them know that your time is just as valuable as theirs. Courteously say: "Mr. Banker, your time is valuable and it seems as if you have had a hectic day. I know how you feel, I've had days like that before, too. I have a meeting that starts in an hour; I'm afraid that I won't be able to discuss my account with you and get to that meeting on time. Loan me the $1 million now and we'll both save time." A statement like this tells Mr. Banker that you value your time as much as he does his. Next time you have an appointment, you will be seen promptly. If not, find a more respectful banker¬ and one who has money to loan.

Be Brief

Brevity, the heart of conversation, shows respect. Treating the other person with respect encourages pro¬ductive conferences and meetings. Smile. Nod affirma¬tively. Look the person in the eye. Don't appear to be in a hurry. Say, "Because we respect each other's time, let's briefly cover the main topics and we'll decide what to do about them." Stand up-politely-when you are ready to terminate the conversation.

Saying "No"

Many of us have difficulty saying "no." We give, give, give until our time and energy have been consumed, dedicating our selves to martyrdom. Hours are wasted saying "yes" to projects that don't hold our inter¬est.
Wasting time volunteering for activities that are less important than accomplishing our goals causes resentment and irritability. We must say "no" immedi¬ately to projects that interfere with our goals. The soon¬er we get in the habit of managing our time, the quicker we can accomplish the goals that matter. Remember: If we don't control our allotment of time, someone else will.
Most commonly we say "yes" in an attempt to have people like us. We're like puppy dogs wagging our tails at everyone we meet, pleading for them to be our friends.
At other times guilt causes us to say "yes" to pro¬jects that don't help us accomplish our goals. We sigh
deeply and with a droopy face say: "Well, someone has to participate in the project. It might as well be me."

After we've said "yes," we might spend countless hours trying to get out of our commitment. Or we might do a sloppy job on projects that we don't enjoy. This behavior annoys and disappoints others. Saying "no" immediately - and with respect - saves everyone a great deal of frustration.
Is saying "no" to less important projects selfish? Of course not! If our values are correct, conserving time for our goals will eventually help more people than a pro¬ject that fails to fulfill our dreams.
Practice saying "no" with grace. You can learn to let your "no" make the other person feel important. Here are couple of honest ways to say "no" with style:
"Wow! That's a worthwhile project. It doesn't fit into my time schedule right now. I'm honored that you would ask me to participate as a committee member. Thanks for asking. Unfortunately, because of other time pressing commitments, I'll have to decline. No. (Pause for a sec¬ond or two.) I wish you well. Good-bye."
"That project sounds great. I bet you will do well on it. You've got a lot of drive and ambition. Unfortunately, I don't have the talent or commitment to participate. One of the things I've learned through the years is what I can and can't do. My getting involved would be a waste of your time. No. (Pause for a second or two.) Best wishes on your project. Good bye."
When you say "no" with refinement you make the other person feel important. You show respect to the other person. And you treat yourself with respect. You are essentially saying to yourself, "I have dreams and goals. I know the things I want and I'm going after them. "
Remember: It's better to be respected than liked. When others respect you, they will eventually begin to like you for your strength of character.

Overcome Procrastination

Procrastination, doing low-priority tasks before high priority activities, robs us of valuable time. We usually do the least important things first because they are easier. We put off the most important things because they are hardier. When we work on the unimportant, we worry about the crucial tasks that aren't getting done. We get tension headaches. Ulcers. High blood pressure. Our doctors get rich, but we still haven't done what's most important. There are four major reasons for pro¬crastination:
1. Laziness
To defeat laziness, begin. Once moving, you'll tend to keep going. It takes greater energy to start an activi¬ty than to sustain it. For example, if you're writing a screen play, put something on paper. Forget about sharpening pencils, arranging paper, reading one more script for inspiration. Write. Writers write.
2. The Quest for Perfection
Nobody is perfect. Nothing created by anybody is perfect. Stop fretting about getting everything just right. Learn to do your best and accept the results. Expecting perfection never gets anything accomplished. To continue with the writing analogy, get that first draft done. Forget semicolons, active verbs, dangling participles, mixed metaphors. Just get something down on paper. You can revise and rewrite the screenplay later.
3. Indecisiveness
To overcome indecisiveness, use the ready, fire, aim approach. Fire it up there. Then aim it. Make some mistakes. Learn. Adjust. Move on.
4. Difficult Tasks
Break down a difficult task into easy steps. Just do a little at a time. You write a screenplay or a book one page at a time. Write one page a day and at the end of a year you will have written 365 pages.

The 80/20 Rule

Remember the 80/20 Rule
The 80/20 rule comes from Pareto, an Italian economist, who found that:
80% of the wealth is held by 20% of the people.
80% of the sales are made by 20% of the sales force.
80% of the purchases are made by 20% of the customers.
80% of books borrowed from libraries are borrowed by 20% of the people.
80% of the money made in seminars will be with 20% of the companies.
80% of the work completed will be done by 20% of the people.
Focus eighty percent of your energy on 20% of the people and activities that pay big dividends.

First Things First

First Things First
A well-used time management .rule says, "Success depends on what you neglect." To get something impor¬tant accomplished, neglect the unimportant, devote time to the important.
Always follow the cardinal rule of time manage¬ment: First things first. Early each morning make a list of those things to be accomplished. Review your goals. Then number your activities in the order of their impor¬tance based on how those activities will help you accom¬plish your goals. Complete the first item first.
The second , second. The third, third. If you don't get to number four, no big deal. Avoid criticizing yourself if you fail to achieve everything on your list. Remember, you did the most important things first.

Time for Priorities

Neglecting the Unimportant

Those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things.
-- LaRochefoucauld

Huge dreams are worthless without the time to make them come true.
Many of us complain that we don't have enough time. False! All of us have the time. Instead, most of us waste the time we have. Or because we don't think that we can achieve our fabulous dreams, we won't set aside time to fulfill them. We spend all our time on insignifi¬cant things and have no time left for the activities that will achieve our dreams. We're too busy making a living to develop a lifestyle. That's what this chapter is about¬ efficiency and productivity-making dreams a reality.

From Habits Come Character

Keeping your eyes on your dream will make your goals, activities, and habits enjoyable. Just as a champi¬on bull rider concentrates on completing an eight second ride, a football player focuses on each five second play, and an alcoholic remains sober one day at a time, you-the self-disciplined achiever - give your best effort to each activity. Failure to visualize a clear future objective - failure to keep your eyes focused on your dreams ¬makes meaningful routine dull and boring.
When you become frustrated by the routine, keep your eyes on the dream.
When you become disappointed by rejection, remember the dream.
When you fail to advance as quickly as you would like, visualize accomplishing your dream.
Hear what people will say when you attain your dream. See what people will do when your dreams come true. Feel - right now - the excitement of fulfilling your dream. Keep your dream - and the exhilaration of completing your dream - in your heart and mind all the time.
From dreams, come goals.
From goals, come activities.
From activities, come routines.
From routines, come habits.
From habits, come character.
Character is marked by the following virtues: integrity, persistence, courage, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, and wisdom.

Act Now

Activity List

To achieve your goals, act. Act now! Without action, your dreams are worthless. Your goals are wishes. Your plans are ashes. Action alone gives worth to your dreams. Only action determines your value. You are what you do. Your actions describe you.
The lazy wait until tomorrow. The weak expect to be strong tomorrow. The failure anticipates success tomorrow. Success does not linger. Act now! Act now! Act now! Today is the perfect day to begin.
Plug away at the daily activities that fulfill your dreams. Through self-discipline - developing the habit of doing the best you can day after day-you gain the max¬imum benefits from your time. Cultivating a strong, healthy routine supports a successful, fulfilled life.
Your activities become habits. Habits become your character. Your character becomes your destiny. Become a slave to good habits. Doing the right things right, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day develops strength of character that leads to success after success.
Routine activities develop habits that will help you achieve your goals and your dreams. If your goal is to write a book in one year, one of your daily activities would be to write a page a day.
If you wanted to make a million dollars in annual sales, one of your activities may consist of making ten sales calls daily.
Focus your activities on those things that will help you achieve your goals. Make a list of activities that you will do daily or weekly to accomplish your goals and do them-every day, every week, every year. Your daily activities can be divided into personal, family, and spiri¬tual activities; career activities; and self improvement activities.
My personal, family, and spiritual activities are:

My career activities are:

Build Your Own Dream

Build Your Own Dream

You can start to dream with a vision statement-a phrase or sentence that tells what you are about. Here's an example of a vision statement: "I live a life that will bring encouragement, optimism and hope to all I meet." Note that the statement is in the first person, present tense indicating that the future begins now.
As you consider your vision statement, be certain you're using your own measuring stick-not your mother's, or father's, or your wife's, or your husband's, or your friend's. What do you want out of life? What's important to you? What are you about?
Here are some questions to help define your vision statement. As you answer these questions you'll be able to understand what motivates you:
What three activities are most important to you?
What three activities give you the most enjoyment?
What three things do you want written on your tombstone?
What three things do you want to do for others?
What three things would you change about your life?
What three qualities would you most like to see associated with your reputation?

Expand Your Financial Dreams.
What ten things do you want in life? Would you like to get out of debt? What kind of house do you want? What kind of cars do you want to drive? If you had all the money you wanted, where would you go on a vaca¬tion? Where do you want your children to go to college? How much money would you like to give to your church or to charities? When do you want to retire? (Retirement depends on money, not age.) What net worth do you want to accumulate?

Make a dream list here:


Now study everything you have written so far. Sum up, in one or two sentences, a concise description of who you want to be. Write your vision statement in the first person, present tense.
I am a person who:
Formulating a vision statement and writing down those things you desire helps you focus on your plea¬sures, your talents, and your bliss. Once you've expand¬ed your vision, your expectations will direct you toward fulfilling your dreams.
It helps to put your dream statement on the refrig¬erator. Read it regularly. Cut out pictures of the things you want to enjoy. Look at the pictures several times a day. See yourself becoming your dream and living the life you want to live.
When you dream extraordinary dreams, some peo¬ple - perhaps a family member, friend, co-worker, or even your boss - may try to take your vision from you. When they see pictures of your dreams on the refrigerator or the bathroom mirror, they will think you have flipped. When they see a first person, present tense, vision statement they will know you have gone over the edge. When they see you joyful and smiling, positive and optimistic, they'll wonder what drug you are taking.
They will worry about you. They will try to steal your dream: "Don't get so excited, this might not work out." "You've got a good job; why do you want to change to something so uncertain?" "I know someone who tried that and they failed miserably."
Unfulfilled people are like crabs. Put crabs in a bucket and watch. If one crab attempts to crawl out of a bucket, the others pull the adventurer back down. People are like that. If you get a dream, they'll try to destroy it.

Go for excellence and you'll be laughed at, criti¬cized, and gossiped about. Who cares? It's your life. Trade acceptance for excellence.
When someone or some event in your life begins to steal your dream, don't despair. Stand tall and straight, face the cold and penetrating wind of dissension and press on toward your dream.

A Brief Interpretation of MERE CHRISTIANITY

Book I = Our conscience is one proof that God exists

1. Everyone knows the difference between right and wrong (Lewis calls this innate knowledge the Moral Law), but we don’t always do what is right
2. The Moral Law overcomes selfishness or self-serving behavior
3. The Moral Law is as “hard as nails” but God has given us a carpenter (Jesus) to help drive those nails

Book II = What Christians Believe

1. God made the universe
2. Evil is good gone wrong
3. Free will gives the opportunity for evil to exist
4. Jewish history is a series of stories that serve as examples and warnings
5. Jesus, a Jew, is the ultimate proof that the Jews are God’s chosen people
6. Christ’s death put us right with God
7. Without the help of Jesus and the Holy Spirit we would never be able to surrender ourselves to God

Book III = A discussion of the spirit, the mind, and the will

(The soul is like a soup with ingredients of spirit, mind, and the will (our actions) all mixed together so that we cannot separate one from the other

1. Morality consists of:

1)    Relationship between man and man

2)    Individual choices

3)    Relationship with God (this relationship gives us a moral purpose)

2. The Cardinal (pivotal) virtues

1)    Prudence—the intelligence to make the correct choices

2)    Temperance—the Golden Mean between too much and too little

3)    Justice—the ability to determine the fair thing to do

4)    Fortitude—Courage (grace under pressure)

3. Emotional conflicts interfere with making the correct moral choices
4. Love is an act of will not a feeling

1)    Because fleshly sins are a distortion of love, sins of the flesh may be less bad than spiritual sins, but both separate us from God (A prig is worse than a prostitute but both peccadilloes will be penalized)

2)    Unchastity is not improved by perjury—being unfaithful and lying about it is worse than being openly unfaithful

5. Anger at evil is a Godly thing but the Christian goes beyond anger by asking Christ and the Holy Spirit for help in wishing the best for the evil one
6. Good and evil increase at compound interest—little daily decisions are of infinite importance
7. Christians are emboldened by the hope that God-given eternal desires will be fulfilled
8. Faith enables us to have the patience to wait for the answer when we don’t understand a spiritual dilemma
9. Bible reading, prayer, and worship are necessary to help maintain faith 

Book IV = A discussion of theological concepts

1. Theologians give us spiritual maps just as explorers give us geographical maps, but like explorers some theologians draw more accurate maps than others
2. The three-person God makes God a personal God

1)    Jesus related to us as a man

2)    The Holy Spirit is inside us

3)    God is omnipresent

3. The resurrection of Lazarus in a example that with God time can go backward as well as forward
4. Christianity spreads like an infection
5. Christ can give us the abundant life when we turn our lives over to Him and stop acting like obstinate toy soldiers
6. Christ is like Beauty in The Beauty and the Beast—His love can transform us into loveable beings
7. Surrendering to Christ is the most difficult of things to do, but it gives us the easiest life
8. Being a good citizen, a good mother, a good husband, a good doctor, a good scientist, a good banker, etc. can make us so smug that we never surrender our lives to Christ
9. The more we let Christ into our lives the more courage we have to be honest with ourselves and with others—we become more transparent because we are not afraid to allow people to know what we are really like

Time to Dream

Time to Dream

The Bigger the Dream, the More the Time

Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic to it.
-- Goethe

Who stole the American dream?

Who snatched our aspiration to be in charge of our lives? Who hampered our desire to go as far and as high as our spirit and character could take us? The govern¬ment? Corporate America? Our boss? Our friends? Our family? Television? Laziness? Procrastination? Disorganization? Low self-esteem?
Some may have forgotten how to dream-or never learned. Others may just watch visionaries build their dreams - and think it's impossible to have what they have. A few people walk around saying, "What's happening? Who's dreaming?"
We surrender our dreams for many reasons. Whatever the cause - social or psychological - a meager number of people know how to dream big. That's sad, because we limit our potential when we won't allow our¬selves to dream. No matter who (or what) caused us to relinquish our dreams, we - each of us - have the ulti¬mate responsibility for deciding to dream again. Our desire determines our destiny.
All of us would do well to open our minds to our dreams-and to expand our dreams.
Why? Because the bountiful dreamers, and those who plan and organize their dreams, have a life of abun¬dance.
They are fulfilled. Productive. Enthusiastic. Energetic dreamers look forward to each new day. Dream builders have all the money they want to help others. They contribute to society and savor the fruits of their labor. They have time to enjoy life. Time and money give them lifestyle-the freedom to take vacations when¬ever they want, the opportunity to choose how to live their lives, the privilege to raise a family without restraint, and the capacity to develop their talents.
Prodigious dreamers have the greatest motivation to plan and organize their lives to fulfill their dreams. Message: Dream liberally! Dream lavishly! Dream luxu¬riantly!
If you've lost your dream, resolve to change now. Expand your vision. Open your mind to unlimited possi¬bilities. Learn to dream again. Success and fulfillment always begin with desire.

Why I Wrote Leverage Your Time; Balance Your Life

I wrote this book because most of us, almost all the time, fight the battle for possession and power. We find ourselves trapped on the freeway of rush. We have a shopping-mall mentality, a lunch hour McDonald's appetite, a sales-meeting life's philosophy. Before we know it, perhaps even without wanting to, we find our¬selves leaping into the commotion without really consid¬ering whether we have an option. Our minds are made static by noise - radios bellowing, TVs babbling, pagers beeping, traffic buzzing. Everywhere, all the time, voices call our names. All of us are busy, perhaps productive...and very tired.
All of us sense that we were not made for the rush ¬hour, freeway kind of life we frenetically live. We seek calm, not chaos. We know, innately, that simpler times create better times. We desire peace, a life that focuses on beauty and truth, a life separate from the cluttered existence our culture promotes.
Yet, activity is necessary. We must produce-all of us-or we become drones of society, unweaned heifers sucking the public teat. Inactivity destroys the zest for life. There's no joy in constant watching, just numbed buttocks and deadened minds. We were not made to sit and isolate ourselves. We were created for motion and mastery.
Is there a halfway point between burn out and rust out? Yes. Balance is a choice.
Each day we can find a place to retreat. We can turn off our noise boxes and enjoy a refuge where we can rest and renew. We can eliminate non-productive activi¬ties. We can say "no." We can reserve a corner of peace, close our eyes and step through our mind's windows into a simpler world. We can enjoy a book. Stroll down a for¬est's path.
The sweet fundamental things of life make living worthwhile. Life is balanced by being alive to both side of our nature - duty and serenity, work and love, activity and rest.
Nearly all of us blame our unbalanced life on the lack of time. We can be heard complaining in the eleva¬tor, in the office, in the grocery store, at church, at home, at the gym. We proclaim our dear time's loss. We marvel at time's swift foot. We recognize ourselves in these cries:
"I'm in the car all day and night taking the kids from one event to another."
"Too many projects!"
"Family? I never have enough time for them."
"The little things consume the time I could dedicate to important activities."
"I get a headache every time the phone rings."
"All those business meetings do for me is put callouses on my rear end."
"These constant interruptions make me sick to the stomach."
"We didn't take a vacation last year because our business consumed us."
"Time for myself? You've got to be kidding!"
"Committee meeting!?! Oh no!!! Not another one!!!"
"Life style? What's that?"
"A nap? Considered it But no time for one."
"Spiritual life? Oh yes, I attend church for an hour just about every Sunday."
"I could have 48 hours a day and still couldn't catch up."
Poor time management, not lack of time, engenders these complaints. Poor planning steals hours each day at home, at work, from the mother, the student, the teacher, the doctor, the lawyer...even the candlestick maker. This book was written for all of us - to help us enjoy a productive life, a balanced life, a successful, meaningful life - and to find time for every activity worthwhile...time for every season under the sun.
Haven't many books been written on time manage¬ment? Yes...hundreds rest on dusty shelves. Either they haven't been read or they haven't been understood. They are too impractical or too long. The more books that have been churned out, the less time we have to study them and practice the techniques suggested in them.
That's what makes Leverage Your Time, Balance Your Life unique. It's brief. To the point. Gives clear sug¬gestions. Can be read in one night. Referred to during the day. It can be read again and again, until every page becomes implanted in the mind. Leverage Your Time, Balance Your Life is a handbook. A handbook for living.
I wrote this book in the second person because it's designed for you. You are busy. You don't have time - ¬yet - for theory or romantic prose or stories. You just want the facts. Cut to the heart of the thing. Get on with it.
Applying what's written in Leverage Your Time, Balance Your Life will give you a fulfilled life, a balanced life. Practicing what's written here will help you:
Have time for your dreams to come true
Find time you never knew you had
Learn to set priorities
Organize your life
Learn to refuse worthless projects
Defeat procrastination
Organize efficient time-saving meetings
Give up the quest for perfection
Overcome indecisiveness
Balance your work and leisure time
Find time for romance
Cultivate a spiritual life that gives life meaning
Have fun every day
Use rest power
Improve family communication
Find time for your children
Rid your life of time wasters
Write bold, brief, empowering letters and memos. Defeat negative emotions that mess up your life
Rid yourself of bad habits that steal your time
Add more life to your years
Live one day at a time
Reduce paperwork clutter
Translate your dreams into achievable goals
Know your core values for a successful life

May Day

According to Virgil, Roman youths used to go into the fields and spend the first of May in dancing and singing in honor of Flora, goddess of fruits and flowers. Robin Hood died on the first of May.

Percent Distribution of Active Physicians in Patient Care by Speciality, 2005

Internal Medicine = 15.0%
Selected surgical specialties = 10.8%
Family medicine = 12.3%
Pediatrics = 7.5%
Anesthesiology = 5.2%
Psychiatry = 5.1%
All other specialties = 38.5%

Median Compensation for Physicians, 2005

Anesthesiology = $320,000
General surgery $283,000
OB/Gyn = $247,000
Psychiatry = $180,000
Internal medicine (general) = $166,000
Pediatrics = $161,000
Family practice = $156,000

New River Carilion Staff

Don Halliwill, Vice President/Administrator	contact through secretary: Monica Mines 731-2508
Dennis Means - Medical Director	731-2250 or 731-2020
Sr. Director, Nursing	731-2506 or 731-2020
Kathy Kinder, Sr. Director, Clinical Support Services	731-2005 or 731-2020
Regina Pennington , Sr. Director Clinical Effectiveness	731-2588
Bill Copening - Sr. Director, Facility Support Services	731-2869
John Schneider, Manager, Human Resources	731-2504
Sharon Honaker, Director, Strategic Development	731-2185 or 731-2094
Donna Downs, Manager, Finance	731-2836
Shane Blanchard, Director, Cardiology/Vascular Services	731-2980

 

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	Robinson, Melissa R. Carilion Behavorial Health, Radford 2900 Lamb Circle Christiansburg, VA  24073 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Reddy, Pavan P. Carilion Behavioral Health, Radford 2900 Lamb Circle Christiansburg, VA  24073 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Hedberg, Ann Carilion Behavioral Health, Roanoke 213 McClanahan Street, Suite 310 Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Sharp, Brett Carilion Behavioral Health, Roanoke 213 McClanahan Street, Suite 206 Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Khan, Amanullah Carilion Center for Healthy Aging 2118 Rosalind Avenue Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Williams, Sarah Carilion Behavioral Health, Radford 2900 Lamb Circle Christiansburg, VA  24073 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Zebro, Gebrehane Carilion Behavioral Health, Roanoke 213 McClanahan Street, Suite 310 Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Reddy, Anuradha Carilion Behavioral Health, Roanoke 213 McClanahan Street, Suite 206 Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Adams-Vanke, Felicity Carilion Behavioral Health, Roanoke 213 McClanahan Street, Suite 206 Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Kavuru, Bush Carilion Behavioral Health, Roanoke 213 McClanahan Street, Suite 310 Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Ali, Mohammad Rizwan Veterans Affairs Medical Center 1970 Roanoke Blvd. Salem, VA  24153 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Fahim, Fahim Carilion Behavioral Health, Roanoke 213 McClanahan Street, Suite, 206 Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry, Child/Adol. Psychiatry
	Shreeve, Daniel F. Carilion Behavioral Health, Roanoke 213 McClanahan Street, Suite 310 Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Harrington, Daniel P. Carilion Behavioral Health, Roanoke 2017 South Jefferson Street Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Administration - Medical Director, Medical Ed-Psychiatric Medicine, Psychiatry
	Criss, Tracey W. Carilion Behavioral Health, Roanoke 213 McClanahan Street, Suite 310 Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Rea, William S. Carilion Behavioral Health, Roanoke 213 McClanahan Street, Suite 310 Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Psychiatry
	Trinkle, David B. Carilion Center for Healthy Aging 2118 Rosalind Avenue Roanoke, VA  24014 Type: PHYSICIAN Specialty: Medical Ed-Psychiatric Medicine, Psychiatry

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