I was trying to remember where it was I last felt this, Mississippi our Florida. I think it was Mississippi. The difference is, you folks aren’t afraid of air conditioning and the Japanese are.
That's definitely more Floridian. I remember in tenth grade going to visit an old school mate who moved to Florida. I remember listening to Yes's 90125 via headphones sunburned in a room where a ceiling fan was the only relief from the Florida summer. I was covered in bactine and stayed very still noting the odd mix of a warm balmy room, and yet the wind from the fan "irritating" my sunbaked state.
I spent a few days in Florida in the beginning of one summer.My High school band got selected to play in the Main Street USA parade in my junior or senior year. Hot and humid. However, I spent a full summer working at Vicksburg Military park as a seasonal park ranger wearing the “funny clothes”, meaning person attire. Aiyaai! U informs back then were wool. Though I did have an escape. In the afternoons I would often change in to my civil war navy impression and go to the USS CAIRO. The navy had white cotton uniforms for the summer.
In college, one of my friends was a Civil War buff. I think he worked at Fort Pulaski near Savannah. One of our fellowship events for our Service Fraternity was we did a fall formal at an old colonial house called the Smith house. (I think I am right in this) We all dressed to the nines and he came in civil war regalia, even accompanied with a sabre (I wonder if carrying a civil war weapon to an off-campus event would be allowed these days)
If you write it, they will come. Count me in. Don't forget the chapter on natural immunity and the other on propaganda. Also the one about the Nuremberg trials, the Milgram Experiment...
Sounds like a vote of confidence and respect from your employer!
I wrote a book and it took 4 years. It wasn't my material. (Well, some of it was.) The coauthor, who was the scientist, sent me big blocks of incoherently organized but very brilliant stuff. I love word processors (are they still called that?) because you can move chunks of stuff around.
And then my colleague up and died suddenly before we were done! But I got through with the help of a bunch of other people who knew the material.
I think AI would be a big help setting up an outline. But I wouldn't want to have its voice drown out my own.
AI is a big help in organizing and outlining. I think this would be a fun project because you can inject yourself into the text and offer some great concepts and observations. And this may also be a great time to get some collaboration from your colleagues on what they think is lacking as well.
Don’t think I’ll be using AI. I could write a book on just why I would not use AI in writing a book but it all boils down to the fact that it is unreliable. As you sated in another a post on models with strange hands, while easier to catch in a photo, the same problem exists in print and that may not be as easy to catch. I want every word to be my own.
Also, as far as text books go, this will be light on content volume. As I envision it, the first few chapters will be on nomenclature, type differential diagnosis, the structure of they medical interview with the rest drills and practice dialogues to instill in the students the language needed to ask whatever is needed to elicit the needed information from patients based upon the physiological system involved. That’s why I need the MD, what must a doctor learn from various patients? We’ll build realistic dialogues bused on the problem and actual medical interviews when we can.
Or in other words, more like a few chapters on how best to use the dialogue practice found in the latter part of the book.
I agree with you on the unreliable part, just as Grammarly is unreliable. But using it for outlining/organizational purposes I think is allowable because that is what AI has some use, organization.
I would never use my outline for print, but would use it to help organize my writing of a book.
In fiction writing, I am a "discovery writer" as in I think that fiction should unfold organically. The fact is, the outline does exist in my mind, usually due to my many hours of movies, reading, and otherwise consuming fiction. I have a pretty broad knowledge of tropes, and when I am "channeling" it what is really going on is a lot of background cooking that I am not even aware of while participating in the process. And really, I could not imagine AI writing a story for me, because the fun of fiction is that as a discovery writer, you have the story told to you even as you are communicating it to others.
However, if I am doing ghostwriting of fiction, I use outlining, and because I don't like outlining, I will use AI as a framework for it in a similar manner as PowerPoint and other word processors provide a framework.
This will be a textbook on medical interviewing, a bit of a different animal altogether. The outline has been in my head for quite some time, but lacking the medical knowledge needed for the role play scenarios, and until yesterday the aid of my medical school to help with this, that part of the endeavor was unfulfillable.
I have one fountain pen...not a dip pen as it comes with an ink cartridge. I finally got it back when I had my car shipped to this facility, but have yet to replace the ink for it.
I also need top ask, any advice? I have never written a book, though I am working on nonfiction one on my experiences in Japan. This is more real as the school has their own book printing capabilities.
Thanks. I was wondering about that and payment too. The school has their own press and book binding department which should make publishing easier but renumeration is a big “?” For me.
As far as what you have done, you showed up, and spoke out, and thus created an opportunity for yourself. This is good news.
That is the sum of it, isn’t it. There is probably a lesson in there, somewhere.
Your description of your current weather sounds like just another day here in the deep south.
I was trying to remember where it was I last felt this, Mississippi our Florida. I think it was Mississippi. The difference is, you folks aren’t afraid of air conditioning and the Japanese are.
That's definitely more Floridian. I remember in tenth grade going to visit an old school mate who moved to Florida. I remember listening to Yes's 90125 via headphones sunburned in a room where a ceiling fan was the only relief from the Florida summer. I was covered in bactine and stayed very still noting the odd mix of a warm balmy room, and yet the wind from the fan "irritating" my sunbaked state.
I spent a few days in Florida in the beginning of one summer.My High school band got selected to play in the Main Street USA parade in my junior or senior year. Hot and humid. However, I spent a full summer working at Vicksburg Military park as a seasonal park ranger wearing the “funny clothes”, meaning person attire. Aiyaai! U informs back then were wool. Though I did have an escape. In the afternoons I would often change in to my civil war navy impression and go to the USS CAIRO. The navy had white cotton uniforms for the summer.
In college, one of my friends was a Civil War buff. I think he worked at Fort Pulaski near Savannah. One of our fellowship events for our Service Fraternity was we did a fall formal at an old colonial house called the Smith house. (I think I am right in this) We all dressed to the nines and he came in civil war regalia, even accompanied with a sabre (I wonder if carrying a civil war weapon to an off-campus event would be allowed these days)
Too bad the U.S. state with the best weather in the world is now overrun with KOOKS running it into the muck.
If you write it, they will come. Count me in. Don't forget the chapter on natural immunity and the other on propaganda. Also the one about the Nuremberg trials, the Milgram Experiment...
Sounds like a vote of confidence and respect from your employer!
I wrote a book and it took 4 years. It wasn't my material. (Well, some of it was.) The coauthor, who was the scientist, sent me big blocks of incoherently organized but very brilliant stuff. I love word processors (are they still called that?) because you can move chunks of stuff around.
And then my colleague up and died suddenly before we were done! But I got through with the help of a bunch of other people who knew the material.
I think AI would be a big help setting up an outline. But I wouldn't want to have its voice drown out my own.
AI is a big help in organizing and outlining. I think this would be a fun project because you can inject yourself into the text and offer some great concepts and observations. And this may also be a great time to get some collaboration from your colleagues on what they think is lacking as well.
Don’t think I’ll be using AI. I could write a book on just why I would not use AI in writing a book but it all boils down to the fact that it is unreliable. As you sated in another a post on models with strange hands, while easier to catch in a photo, the same problem exists in print and that may not be as easy to catch. I want every word to be my own.
Also, as far as text books go, this will be light on content volume. As I envision it, the first few chapters will be on nomenclature, type differential diagnosis, the structure of they medical interview with the rest drills and practice dialogues to instill in the students the language needed to ask whatever is needed to elicit the needed information from patients based upon the physiological system involved. That’s why I need the MD, what must a doctor learn from various patients? We’ll build realistic dialogues bused on the problem and actual medical interviews when we can.
Or in other words, more like a few chapters on how best to use the dialogue practice found in the latter part of the book.
Still, a task to be met.
I agree with you on the unreliable part, just as Grammarly is unreliable. But using it for outlining/organizational purposes I think is allowable because that is what AI has some use, organization.
I would never use my outline for print, but would use it to help organize my writing of a book.
I already have a mental outline for it. Just need to write it down. May even use my dip pens to do so.
In fiction writing, I am a "discovery writer" as in I think that fiction should unfold organically. The fact is, the outline does exist in my mind, usually due to my many hours of movies, reading, and otherwise consuming fiction. I have a pretty broad knowledge of tropes, and when I am "channeling" it what is really going on is a lot of background cooking that I am not even aware of while participating in the process. And really, I could not imagine AI writing a story for me, because the fun of fiction is that as a discovery writer, you have the story told to you even as you are communicating it to others.
However, if I am doing ghostwriting of fiction, I use outlining, and because I don't like outlining, I will use AI as a framework for it in a similar manner as PowerPoint and other word processors provide a framework.
This will be a textbook on medical interviewing, a bit of a different animal altogether. The outline has been in my head for quite some time, but lacking the medical knowledge needed for the role play scenarios, and until yesterday the aid of my medical school to help with this, that part of the endeavor was unfulfillable.
I have one fountain pen...not a dip pen as it comes with an ink cartridge. I finally got it back when I had my car shipped to this facility, but have yet to replace the ink for it.
What kind of pen is it?
I also need top ask, any advice? I have never written a book, though I am working on nonfiction one on my experiences in Japan. This is more real as the school has their own book printing capabilities.
Make sure you have an agreement with your school then and have it all down on paper and everyone agrees about it.
Thanks. I was wondering about that and payment too. The school has their own press and book binding department which should make publishing easier but renumeration is a big “?” For me.
My book sells for $40. I get 7 in royalties about. And I get wholesale at 21 when I sell a book from my website.
It is not something to retire on. But on the other hand I am now famous in the rarefied world of the mercury toxic.
Do you ship to Japan?
There is SO MUCH information online regarding how best to conduct medical interviews. This link took me a few seconds to locate. I bet there's tons more from which to choose. https://www.physeo.com/how-to-conduct-the-best-medical-patient-interview
Pro tip from a grammarian (retired university professor of English Lit): always have a grammarian proofread your final draft.