working through a slough of questions in preparation for this interview - a week saturday, 11:45 am EDT, hamilton, ontario, in case any of you feel like sending up a flare to whatever god/dess of good fortune you've got on side.
the trouble is how to know oneself in such a way as to be able to present the picture of knowing oneself. how to think through the big hairy problems of ethics, of policy, of commitment, of self, and distill those thoughts into 8 minutes of speaking time, with 2 minutes of prep. you can spend a whole life, or at the very least a bottle of scotch and hours of heated conversation, teasing out the nuances of these kinds of questions.
should medical schools preferentially admit students who commit to abstaining from smoking? what do you do when a friend with a gambling problem asks to borrow money? is it ethical for healthcare professionals to strike? what do you think about organ donation from non-viable infants? what would you do if a fellow physician has a drinking problem that you believe is endangering the lives of his/her patients? how do you feel about a two-tier medical system? should we fund private healthcare? how would you describe the relationship between science and medicine? who are you, really?
and with all of these questions, i start with the obvious end - the thread that's poking out, that tickles my gut instinct, and i pull on it. and it unravels, knots up, turns in on itself, disappears. to each question, a million possible answers. the underdetermination of the data by the theory. or is it the other way around?
120 minutes. 12 stations.
gulp.
shawn colvin - steady on
1 comment:
steady on indeed. It reminds me of Carla's insight into her success --a keen adaptability. She always knows what "they" want to hear--and then feeds it to 'em.
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