Academics versus Private Practice

Distance transforms: Academics versus industry

In image and video analysis, distance transformations (DT) are frequently used. They provide a distance image (DI) of background pixels to the nearest object pixel. DT touches upon the core of many applications; consequently, not only science but also industry has conducted a significant body of work in this field. However, in a vast majority of the cases this has not been published in major sc...

Should nurse academics engage in clinical practice?

The education of nurses has traditionally been conducted in the hospital based setting. This changed over the last few decades, with nursing education now being a tertiary based course in many countries. There were numerous reasons for this move, the main goal being to improve the educational experience of students and thus the competence of graduates. Nurse academics whose role is to educate s...

CoMMuNITY PRIVATE PRACTICE CouNCIlloR

Transition to private practice.

f you are a regular reader of this section of the journal, you know that I am a cognitive therapist. You are aware, as well, that I have applied I this present-oriented model to aid the adjustment of patients diagnosed with cancer. My initial work in this area was accomplished at the Hollings Cancer Center of the Medical University of South Carolina, working alongside an enlightened oncologist....

State versus Private Ownership

Private ownership should generally be preferred to public ownership when the incentives to innovate and to contain costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the "dynamic vitality" of free enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s failed to see the dangers of socialism in part because they focused on the role of prices under social...