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Editor’s blog: Bill Grogan’s Goat
EditorsNote Did I ever tell you about my career in show biz? |
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By James E. Mattson
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Page Content  My hometown weekly newspaper has a “Meet your neighbor” section that uses a Q&A format to profile locals. The questions are the same every week, and one of them is, “Tell us something about yourself that others may not know.” In a small town, it can be a challenge to think of something others may not know about you, so I’ve given it some thought, just in case I’m ever asked.
Six months before that stellar performance, while living in Minnesota, I had called Raymond Damadian, MD, to interview him for an article about his invention and now, here I was, a resident of Long Island, singing in a quartet with him at a Christmas party. That phone call was the beginning of a long-term connection that positively influenced my career path, not in show biz, but in health care-related communications. That path included the writing of a biographic history, available in most university and health science libraries, on the development of nuclear magnetic resonance scanning and its technological derivative, MRI (Mattson & Simon, 1996). It’s another example of the “six degrees of separation” rule, “the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth.”
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Thanks for connecting at the 41st Biennial Convention! To those convention goers who stopped by to say hi when it was my turn, as editor of RNL, to be on STTI Center Stage in the exhibit hall, and to those I met while attending sessions or when passing in the hallways between sessions, I enjoyed meeting all y’all. (For non-Texans who didn’t hear Kathleen Stevens’ plenary presentation, all y’all is the plural of y'all.)
Reference:
Mattson, J., & Simon, M. (1996). The pioneers of NMR and magnetic resonance in medicine: The story of MRI. New York: Bar-Ilan University Press.
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