I like me some presentations!

The presentations have really helped me come along with my paper. They helped me to know which direction to be looking. Since then, I've been able to make a lot of progress. I've found that writing a paper like this is a process. You can't get one place until you been to another. You start off looking for basically anything you can find, then you use what you do find. You read it, then you find search for something based upon what you've just read. After that, you can do that again until you find everything you need. Before the presentation, I honestly did not know what I was going to do. After seeing the first days, however, I realized what it was I needed to search for, and I found it. Now I'm ready to finish up my paper.

I found the presentations to be very interesting. Everyone in the medical field is basically taking the same approach, but in different ways, or as I've said before, "They're on the same information superhighway, they're just traveling in different directions". I think it's interesting to think on the standpoint of delivering bad news. That would be a very difficult thing to do. Personally, I have a light of experience with that. I had a bone tumor my freshman year in high school, and I thought my doctor handled it very well. She told me all the possibilities it could be, but didn't say she was leaning anyway until she knew for sure. Along with her knowing for sure, she told me that it was benign, and that it probably wasn't even going to take surgery.

The other presentations were very interesting too. I especially liked the hostage negotiation one. I left him a blog comment talking about how that information is good for everyone to know. You can use that kind of language in hardening situations. For example, if you have a friend who's having a hard time and just needs someone to talk to. I'd say that language also would help new parents communicate with their children as they get older (hint hint Mr. Barnette). But seriously, I was really glad that we got the opportunity to do these presentations, they sure helped me out.