How I got into orthopaedics – Steve Kahane: My Story

How I got over the Christmas flu.

The Story of My Face: How Environmental Stewards Perceive

The story of my face intertwines concepts of social semiotics and discourse analysis to explore how a simple type of printed media (flyer) can generate stigmatization of informal recyclers, known as binners in Western Canada. Every day, media exposes humans to signifiers (e.g., words, photographs, cartoons) that appear to be trivial but influence how we perceive their meaning. Amongst the signi...

Learning my music how I learn my medicine.

to be the soloist in William Walton's Viola Concerto. Perhaps it's more a fantasy, than an ambition, as I'm not a good enough viola player to manage it. But if I were to have a go, my main experience of learning things has been in medicine. Is learning music the same? Perhaps I should start by writing some competency statements. Let's assume, that in order to start the module 'Walton's Viola Co...

I Got More Data, My Model is More Refined, but My Estimator is Getting Worse! Am I Just Dumb?

Listen to my story

It is hardly surprising that faced with chronic incurable illness or a life threatening disorder, patients and those who love them and care for them easily suspend critical judgment when offered new hope. There is no shortage of charlatans who will, for a fee and often a substantial one at that, offer false hope, frequently robbing the dying of dollars and dignity. No form of this quackery is m...