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FEELINGS (“Who-oo-oa - Feelings”)
Mary G. Barry, MD
Louisville Medicine Editor
[email protected]
I
have long ago given up trying to remember details of the classification systems
for the diagnosis of lymphoma. At one
point I had studied four different ones (the
Rappaport, the Working Formulation, the
Revised European one, and then the World
Health Organization one, which is current
but constantly changing as new genetic data
comes to light).
I could not begin to enumerate the types
of management systems for large organizations that have developed over the centuries.
The first one I ever learned was from my
grandfather, John J. Barry. For his family
of nine, plus Grandma, plus Uncle Tony,
the competition at table for each section of
the newspaper was intense. His system was
very simple: the fastest reader got to take any
section from anybody at any time (including
from himself). It was merit-based, fostered
friendly competition, and worked smoothly
to maintain the peace. (Grandma, however,
did not adopt this system for,