PHYSICIANS AS SPEAKERS.

Physicians as Astronauts

2011 urban Canadians. The physician must adapt to these differences and avoid imposing his own perspective. The same is true on orbit, with crews generally of international composition. Risk management Living in a remote area is a health risk in itself: for example, the chances of surviving a major head trauma are several orders of magnitude lower when the nearest neurosurgeon and ICU are sever...

Physicians as writers.

the patient’s story, and enjoy the interaction with patients and families. They are also part of the full gamut of life experiences and events, often in dramatic fashion. Smithers noted that “opportunities for the close observation of the great variety of men and women under conditions of stress, suffering, relief and bereavement has been theirs; indeed they have seen more of the triumph of the...

Do neuropsychological tests have the same meaning in Spanish speakers as they do in English speakers?

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine whether neuropsychological tests translated into Spanish measure the same cognitive constructs as the original English versions. METHOD Older adult participants (N = 2,664), who did not exhibit dementia from the Washington Heights Inwood Columbia Aging Project (WHICAP), a community-based cohort from northern Manhattan, were evaluated with a c...

Speakers

Speakers' Use of Interactive Gestures as Markers of Common Ground

This study experimentally manipulates common ground (the knowledge, beliefs and assumptions interlocutors mutually share [6]) and measures the effect on speakers’ use of interactive gestures to mark common ground. The data consist of narratives based on a video of which selected scenes were known to both speaker and addressee (common ground condition) or to only the speaker (no common ground co...