For anyone who wants to know what it is like to write a memoir it is easy to give a brief philosophy that partially addresses that question. That is if you do not get yourself emotionally involved and in tears, you are not honest enough with what you are writing. What brings people to read [...]
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What Makes a Good Teacher Versus a Good Scientist: Can one be Both?
What makes a good teacher versus a good scientist: Can one be both? An overwhelming majority of my work involves doing research. I do some “teaching” or more correctly mentoring of graduate and medical students. Unfortunately however, for the past ten years I have done almost no didactic teaching. Formerly, teaching was a regular part [...]
Helping People – Clinical Trials and the Lucky Placebo Group
you risk is a legacy of tombstones all with the epitaph, “the placebo group were the lucky ones
Book Review of My Ambulance Education
By writing My Ambulance Education Joe brings the challenges and rewards to a lot of people. EMS professionals toil in relative anonymity. Joe brings the world of EMS to a general audience that is captivating and respectful.
Empowered versus non-empowered administrators and managers.
Empowered versus non-empowered administrators and managers. This is the incomplete blog that I was working on when I ended up hosting the guest blog a short time ago. Please recall that the discussion included the concept of administrators who sound empowered but are not. They are the biggest risk. So I want to purchase an [...]
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday My Ambulance Education. One year ago today My Ambulance Education was published by Firefly. All I can say is that it is still an education.
Translational research – what is it, who does it and why should we do it?
Translational research – what is it, who does it and why should we do it? A buzz word that comes around in medical research is, “translational” research. While translational is used all time by researchers, no one seems to have a good definition for it. To borrow a famous quote: “I cannot define it, but [...]
Geeks are an endangered species.
We need to remember that the future of a creative and productive society is with scientists and technologists and that these people are trying to improve society.
A Bachelor’s Cookbook
Why is cast iron so appropriate to bachelors you ask, well it is because you really aren’t supposed to WASH it. What is more perfect than that for us disgusting non-neat freak bachelors than a pan that you can just wipe out and call clean.
Memory is a strange thing.
When learning and studying new and complicated material, every college student needs plenty of sleep, a healthy diet and a routine including exercise and study.
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