My Introduction

[Dr. Nancy Malik]

Hello Everyone at forums.

 

I am nancy, a physician

[Moontanman]

Welcome Nancy, (nice name, my wife is named Nancy) I look forward to you joining in on our conversations.

[CraigD]

Hi Nancy - welcome to hypography.

 

I’m glad to see another medical professional at hypography (I’m not a clinician, but having been immersed in developing clinical computer systems for the past quarter decade- some innovative and interesting, some not – consider myself part of the culture). Though the membership here include a broad swath of students and professionals I think medicine’s underrepresented (likely, due a “culture of barely enough time for sleep”).

 

Prior to the widespread popularity of the internet, I used to have a “standard test for workaholism” among physicians, NPs, and other clinicians: I’d gift the subject with a time-consuming hobby object in which I knew he had an affectionate interest (eg: a ship-in-a-bottle kit). If the kit remained unopened or barely started 12 months later, I recorded a positive test result. To my chagrin, about a decade ago, I noticed that I was testing positive for workaholism, piling up a case full of unopened model kits, not to mention barely started personal programming projects – in short, anything I couldn’t fit into a few tens of minutes of time sitting on a train or bus seat.

 

These days, time spent on internet forums seems a good indicator of the ability to take time off from professional life (that medical IT folk can see such activity performed on managed workstations makes this a handy statistic – no need to alert your HIPAA compliance officer, such stats are easy to blind properly!). Your appearance among the modest ranks of hypographers suggests that you’re among the professional elite with time for a life outside of the office.

 

Enjoy!

[alexander]

Welcome,

 

I hope you find the forums entertaining, you'll find all sorts of people here, from really thoughtful and exact in their wording people, like Gahd, to some nutcases, like CraigD and myself, here :)

 

Welcome to hypography, the only place you know where assist communities of researchers and try to help them as much as we can with what it is they are doing. We contribute to the protein folding research, in an attempt to cure diseases, by sharing our computing power (for me about 15 systems). We encourage everyone to join BOINC, and if you need a cluster to do a computation, for only a month, or two, well, we can make something happen for that too...