Dr Bruce McKenzie is now available for freelance consultancy as a clinical knowledge architect, addressing the unmet need for usable knowledge resources at the point-of-care in UK general practice. General practitioners (GPs) make more decisions in a day than a typical business executive, and these decisions cost not just money but potentially lives. It's challenging work, and you can but hope your decisions are based on good information. The problem is information overload and access to what you need when you need it: there's just too much and it's too hard to find in the context of a 10 minute consultation. As a GP for 10 years I can relate to this. I also have informatics knowledge and experience, and this puts me in a position to offer you solutions that are built the way a doctor would design them.
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Zotero is a free Firefox extension that can automatically capture citation data from the web (e.g. Amazon books or PubMed articles). Integration with Word (Mac and PC) via a macro means it can be used to write scientific papers with formatted bibliographies (not as yet in Vancouver style, often used by medical journals). A great alternative to EndNote ($US240), or the pending OpenOffice Bibliographic project.
One zero is a very short (~1100 words) piece of creative writing introducing a world view based on binary code (Matrix inspired I guess). Originally the prelude to a short story I planned to write, it's sat on my hard drive untouched for the past 3 years (although the first words were written sometime earlier). As a full story it will never see the light of day, so I present it here for your consumption. Does it stir anything in you? Do I have any potential as a writer of fiction (or what needs to improve)? Where would it take you if you were to write the next 1000 words?
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