(A341) Disaster! What about Me?

What the military taught me about practice management.

Jennifer E. Frank, MD, FAAFP I joined the U.S. Army as a medical student and was first assigned to active duty as a family medicine intern. After seven years, I transitioned to civilian practice, where today I often find myself longing for the organizational structure of a military I was once so anxious to leave. Many of the concepts that define the military serve as a solid foundation for a we...

What my children taught me about information sharing in medicine.

This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a p...

What the Saskatchewan Roughriders Have Taught Me about Pharmacy.

JCPH – Vol. 63, n 2 – mars–avril 2010 184 many fans were “looking for blood”, the coach’s actions calmed us down and reinstated our faith in the team. Similarly, in pharmacist practice, we must all take responsibility for our actions. This attitude helps to ensure that we maintain the respect of our patients and other health care professionals. Little Plays Make a Difference: Whether it is conc...

What the Assassin’s Guild Taught Me About Distributed Computing

Listen To Me - Don't Listen To Me: What Communities of Critics Tell Us About Music

Social knowledge and data sharing on the Web takes many forms. So too do the ways people share ideas and opinions. In this paper we examine one such emerging form: the amateur critic. In particular, we examine genius.com, a website which allows its users to annotate and explain the meaning of segments of lyrics in music and other written works. We describe a novel dataset of approximately 700,0...