Key Questions to Ask When Establishing a Clinical Practice: What I Wish I Knew When I Started

I Wish I Knew Then What I Know Now

W e have all probably felt that way at some point in our lives, whether in our personal matters, in business, or in our medical profession. This statement seems to apply to the story of Sandy Koufax, one of the best all-time pitchers in the history of professional baseball. Sandy Koufax was forced to retire in 1966 during the peak of his career due to severe elbow pain. He has reportedly said t...

The Handbook: an end to 'I wish I had known that before I started'.

The importance of an effective handover between clinicians is vital, particularly for junior doctors when commencing a new clinical rotation. When junior doctors commence a new rotation there is often a significant amount of new information and tasks that they must learn, whilst also maintaining a high level of care for patients. However, very little information is formally passed from the outg...

What I talk about when I talk about health law.

What I think when I think about treebanks

In this opinion piece, I present four somewhat controversial suggestions for the design of future treebanks: a) Treebanks should be based on adversarial samples, rather than pseudorepresentative samples. b) Treebanks should include multiple splits of the data, rather than just a single split, as in most treebanks today. c) They should include multiple annotations of each sentence, whenever poss...

A Tale of Two Perspectives on Cancer: What I Wish I Knew Before Cancer-Radiologist and Patient Perspectives.

Medicine is making a concerted effort to make sure we put the patient at the center of all we do. Radiology is a part of this process, as exemplified by numerous articles, lectures, and campaigns focusing on how radiologists can be more patient centered. Both the ACR and the RSNA are at the forefront of these discussions. The recently formed ACR Commission on Patientand Family-Centered Care is ...