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Of Rocks, Islands and Teamwork -- A Surgical Life? Monday, January 5th, 2009

posted on Monday, January 5th, 2009 

“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.” (William Blake, poet).
If I was to ask you what it meant to be a surgeon [...]

Collaborations and border crossings.... Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

posted on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 

A recent study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research detailed the requirements and services available for optimizing how scientific collaborations are established on Facebook. Facebook????? Yes, Facebook. You read it right! The researchers found that beyond expertise…..
1. Compatibility in personality, work style, and productivity were essential;
2. Communication was also central in finding the right [...]

Smart mobs and clinical trials Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

posted on Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 

In 2003, Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs wrote that particular technologies radically reorganized the ways in which individuals cooperated in societies. Rheingold, one of the first scholars to discuss the rise of virtual community in his case study of The Well, is considered an authority on the ways in which society is [...]

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