The Night I Became a Jazz Musician

How I became a biochemist.

It was a sunny September day in a Madrid that had started to grow after years of stagnation, when I entered a modern red brick building at the corner of Velázquez and Joaquín Costa streets. I had an appointment with someone unknown to me, but whom I had been told was an important enzymologist. I was far from imagining that the encounter with that person would determine my future scientific life...

How I nearly became a Marlboro man.

Why I became an occupational physician ...

In gratitude for their prompt help in a serious accident in a new sewer tunnel outside the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, the medical staff were invited to see the work excavating the wide bore, using as a rough guide the layer of pebbles on what had been the bed of the Rhine 18 000 years ago. That was so interesting that registrars arranged visits to other local enterprises, including Colman's ...

How I Became IS: Understanding the Major Decision

For over a decade, the IS discipline has been struggling to increase student enrollment. The enrollment problem is exacerbated by the fact that females/minorities are graduating college in increasing numbers and the IS discipline has historically attracted white males. This study assesses the effectiveness of the many enrollment interventions recommended in the IS literature by reporting on how...

The surgeon and the musician.

These two quotations encapsulate my personal thinking about music. I cannot imagine my life without listening to music most of the time. Being both a surgeon and an amateur musician, I have been, for a long time, intrigued by the potential relations between medicine and music (Fig. 1). Indeed there have been in history, many famous people who were both musicians and physicians or surgeons [1]. ...