Frustrated by current practice and convinced of a better way, the author left his salaried position and opened a solo practice with no staff. Because his overhead costs are extremely low, the author is able to see fewer patients per day and create more meaningful interactions. By offering unfettered access, the author finds that his patients trust him more and actually call him less.

Over the past 20 years there has been a statistically significant trend toward fewer family physicians identifying as being in solo practice. Further study to determine the reasons for this decline and its impact on access to care will be critical because rural areas are more dependent on solo practitioners.

1331. The SOLO Studies: A Single-Dose of Oritavancin (ORI) Compared to 7-10 Days of Vancomycin (VAN) in the Treatment of Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections (ABSSSI) Ralph Corey, MD; Matthew Wikler, MD; Greg Moeck,; Hai Jiang,; Samantha Good,; Solo I and II Investigators; Medicine Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; The Medicines Company, Parsippany, NJ

Birdsong is regarded as a classic example of a sexually-selected trait and has been primarily studied in systems with male song. Complex solo female song is emerging from the shadows of overlooked phenomena. In males, rearing conditions affect male song complexity, and males with complex songs are often more successful at mate attraction and territorial defense. Little is known about the ontoge...

The technologies behind passive resonant magneticallycoupled tags are introduced and their application as a musical controller is illustrated for solo or group performances, interactive installations, and music toys.

The dual nature of the university as a research and teaching institution provides students the opportunity to be taught by experts. However, with course offerings decreasing, teaching loads increasing and class sizes swelling, students’ access to expert instruction is often limited to 1-3 lectures per topic. Typically, a sequence of lecturers presenting material in their field of expertise and ...

This paper describes the design of a guitar-inspired, pocketsized controller system SoloTouch. SoloTouch consists of a capacitive touch trigger, and an automated note selector program. Requiring only one finger, the touch trigger allows intuitive execution of both velocity sensitive notes and aftertouch messages. The automated note selector program selects consecutive consonant notes from prepr...

As a part of the research project Voice Meetings, a solo liveelectronic vocal performance was presented for 63 students. Through a mixed method approach applying both written and oral response, feedback from one blindfolded and one seeing audience group was collected and analyzed. There were marked differences between the groups regarding focus, in that the participants in blindfolded group ten...