One Writer, Becoming

Toward becoming one self.

I communicated often with the patient's psychologist during her last hospitalization. As the patient moves slowly toward integration, she and I remain in contact through correspondence and occasional lunch meetings. This friendly relationship provides a much-needed ongoing support system for the patient, which is provided by one who is familiar with her diagnostic picture. This paper has descri...

Top 15 Tips on Becoming an Effective Medical Simulation Performer/Writer/Director.

Xiao C Zhang1*, Scott Pasichow1, Melissa Bowler2 and David Lindquist3 1Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Emergency Medicine Residency, Providence, RI, USA 2Providence Improv Guild, Providence, RI, USA 3Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Providence, RI,USA *Corresponding author: Xiao C Zhang, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Emergency ...

Becoming one person: living with dissociative identity disorder.

Dissociative identity disorder is a rare diagnosis, although people currently with a diagnosis of psychosis may in fact be experiencing what is associated with the disorder. This article is co-authored by a nurse and a person who has lived with alters (multiple personalities) for nearly all of her life. Because of the rarity of the diagnosis, there is much misunderstanding and ignorance among l...

Improving Writer Identification Through Writer Selection

In this work we present a method for selecting instances for a writer identification system underpinned on the dissimilarity representation and a holistic representation based on texture. The proposed method is based on a genetic algorithm that surpasses the limitations imposed by large training sets by selecting writers instead of instances. To show the efficiency of the proposed method, we ha...

Nurse as writer, writer as nurse.