On Being A Faculty Member Or Things Your Dissertation Adviser Never Told You

Top 10 words of leadership advice … or, things your mother never told you!

Nursing leaders are in a unique position within the healthcare system. Today there is more emphasis on multidisciplinary care, cost containment and corporate accountability. Often this means that leaders have a unique connection with front-line providers, require a different set of skills and work with different stakeholders on ways to advance the system. In my role as president of ACEN, I have...

Be Prepared: things my scoutmaster never told me.

P reparedness, a term that originated in the military lexicon and connoted a readiness for war, has become one of the new watchwords of emergency medicine. In this issue of the Journal are two articles dealing with emergency department (ED) preparedness (see pages 12 and 18). These articles are interesting to consider, both for their similarities and for their advocacy of ED preparedness. Gorma...

You never forget your first time.

9 things you should never say to a patient.

Let’s face it: Like everyone else, physicians don’t always say the right things. “Do you always weigh that much?” is an example that we heard about, um, somewhere. And when we polled for cringe-worthy comments, a few physicians teased, “Hunh, where’d my watch go?” and “Which leg are we operating on?” But there are less obvious and more insidious phrases that find their way into physician-patien...

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Word sense discrimination is the problem of identifying different contexts that refer to the same meaning of an ambiguous word. For example, given multiple contexts that include the word ’sharp’, we would hope to discriminate between those that refer to an intellectual sharpness versus those that refer to a cutting sharpness. Our methodology is based on the strong contextual hypothesis of Mille...