AAAI President's Message

The First AAAI President's Message

Births are always interesting affairs. According to some, births are always traumatic—a shock to come from the womb to the world. The birth we give witness to here is that of a new society, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence—AAAI. It has not seemed to me traumatic, but rather almost wholly benign. In a world where not much is benign at the moment, such an event is devoutly to ...

President's message: reasoning behind conclusions in psychiatric reports and testimony.

Potential for reducing health care costs by public and patient education. Summary of selected studies.

PATIENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS remain one of the most neglected if not one of the most obscure areas in health care. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Report to the President's Committee on Health Education (1) states that of $18.2 billion allocated for health purposes, DHEW estimates that it spends no more than $44 million on health education, about one-fifth of ...

President's Message Professionalism: Disclosure

Disclosure, the revealing to others of normally confidential or private information, is the most ubiquitous response to financial relationships and conflicts of interest in all sectors of society. Rules govern disclosure in many domains that impact the public. For example, in journalism, the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists (2005) states that journalists should “disclos...

Cossham Medical Society

The oldest Bristol Medical Club began its 1981/82 session with an informal presidential ramble. The only message that seemed to emerge was the ease with which the speakerseemed ableto lose his way; in the Alps, the Lakes, or even more alarmingly, a selection of dirty wet caves in Somerset and Wales. The photographs, however, were sufficiently stimulating to produce further tall stories at the b...