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Your profession needs you (lessons in medical leadership).

After finishing residency, you are fortunate to find an excellent job as an attending emergency physician in a busy community teaching hospital. The physician group is well established, with an equitable shift distribution and a practice plan to support the residents’ teaching program. The emergency department (ED) sees high volumes, so there are always challenging, acutely ill patients to trea...

What Your Computer Really Needs to Know , You Learned in

Research in distributed AI has led to computational techniques for providing AI systems with rudimentary social skills. This paper gives a brief survey of distributed AI, describing the work that strives for social skills that a person might acquire in kindergarten, and highlighting important unre-solved problems facing the eld.

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Conducting forensic examinations on the road: are you practicing your profession without a license?

Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals retained in civil or criminal litigation are frequently required to travel to a state in which they are not licensed to perform assessments and offer testimony. Adverse professional and legal consequences may await the unwary peripatetic forensic expert. Failure to address local practice requirements may result in disqualification to testify a...