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What I learned hanging out at the vascular surgery conference (2011)

62 points by gliese1337 11y ago

DiabloD3 11y ago
The guy is right, we should learn more about... everything, really. The most interesting scientific discoveries have been from people gluing two radically different branches of science and/or math together in weird ways. And then you have someone like me that just learns everything about everything, and wonders why the sun is going down and I just got out of bed at oh-shit-I've-been-reading-Wikipedia-for-8-hours-Goddamnit o'clock.
zomg 11y ago
i work in the medical device field and go to a ton of these conferences. nothing was better than the year we had a show in chicago at the same time there was an "adult film" conference. talk about subcultures...
afarrell 11y ago
One thing to note: he was up-front about not being a doctor. I think that sort of honesty is a small ethical obligation of wandering into a conference for doctors. But it also means that the people you talk to can target their explanation to their audience.
afarrell 11y ago
One thing to note: he was up-front about not being a doctor. I think that sort of honesty is a small ethical obligation of wandering into a conference for doctors. But it also means that the people you talk to can target their explanation to their audience.
aabajian 11y ago
These types of procedures are exploding, but there's a lot of turf wars between vascular surgery, cardiac surgery and interventionalists (e.g. interventional radiologists, interventional cardiologists, and interventional neurologists). For vessels in the brain there are fellowships that accept neurologists, radiologists, and/or neurosurgeons: http://radiology.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=120 http://radiology.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=120 It's kinda unique to have that kind of diversity in a fellowship applicant pool. I'm interested in interventional radiology, but their big problem is that they don't oversee the patient's floor management. This will hopefully change with the new IR residency for medical students starting next year: http://www.sirweb.org/fellows-residents-students/ http://www.sirweb.org/fellows-residents-students/
iandanforth 11y ago
Man I was really sad that the link to the sock con was down and the writeup on the other programmer's visit to said con was missing. Anyone else been to a sock con?
ggreer 11y ago
I'm not sure if others noticed, so I'll be the first to point it out: This post is by Andy Lester, author of the search tool Ack.[1] 1. http://beyondgrep.com/ http://beyondgrep.com/
noipv4 11y ago
I would suggest going to a big bioinformatics conference like ISMB or ECCB. The amount of graphics / images / pictures that goes into genomics / biology / genetics posters is amazing. I moved from pure CS to Genomics, and the differences are quite stark.
agumonkey 11y ago
It seems so obvious but yet it's good to be reminded of this kind of 'horizontal gene transfer'.

62 points by gliese1337 11y ago

The guy is right, we should learn more about... everything, really. The most interesting scientific discoveries have been from people gluing two radically different branches of science and/or math together in weird ways. And then you have someone like me that just learns everything about everything, and wonders why the sun is going down and I just got out of bed at oh-shit-I've-been-reading-Wikipedia-for-8-hours-Goddamnit o'clock.

zomg 11y ago

i work in the medical device field and go to a ton of these conferences. nothing was better than the year we had a show in chicago at the same time there was an "adult film" conference. talk about subcultures...

afarrell 11y ago

One thing to note: he was up-front about not being a doctor. I think that sort of honesty is a small ethical obligation of wandering into a conference for doctors. But it also means that the people you talk to can target their explanation to their audience.

afarrell 11y ago

aabajian 11y ago

These types of procedures are exploding, but there's a lot of turf wars between vascular surgery, cardiac surgery and interventionalists (e.g. interventional radiologists, interventional cardiologists, and interventional neurologists). For vessels in the brain there are fellowships that accept neurologists, radiologists, and/or neurosurgeons: http://radiology.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=120 http://radiology.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=120 It's kinda unique to have that kind of diversity in a fellowship applicant pool. I'm interested in interventional radiology, but their big problem is that they don't oversee the patient's floor management. This will hopefully change with the new IR residency for medical students starting next year: http://www.sirweb.org/fellows-residents-students/ http://www.sirweb.org/fellows-residents-students/

iandanforth 11y ago

Man I was really sad that the link to the sock con was down and the writeup on the other programmer's visit to said con was missing. Anyone else been to a sock con?

ggreer 11y ago

I'm not sure if others noticed, so I'll be the first to point it out: This post is by Andy Lester, author of the search tool Ack.[1] 1. http://beyondgrep.com/ http://beyondgrep.com/

noipv4 11y ago

I would suggest going to a big bioinformatics conference like ISMB or ECCB. The amount of graphics / images / pictures that goes into genomics / biology / genetics posters is amazing. I moved from pure CS to Genomics, and the differences are quite stark.

agumonkey 11y ago

It seems so obvious but yet it's good to be reminded of this kind of 'horizontal gene transfer'.