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Ten years ago today I was working at an educational institute based at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. My boss, Dr. J.B. McGee, had developed a prototype for a Virtual Patient program, one that third and fourth year Harvard Medical students could utilize (on CD-ROM) to learn some of the details of patient care that they would not be able to pick up on rounds.
In a Managed Care world, patients were not in the hospital long enough for students and interns to get a comprehensive view of a particular disease or condition. J.B.?s? program was designed to help fill that void.
My job: I was one of the QuickTime guys; shooting and editing the video to embed in the program interface, developed using Macromedia Director and its custom code: Lingo. How clumsy it all seems now. Flash has long since displaced it.
J.B. had a cable TV in his office, and we gathered that Tuesday morning, some of us just in from the Green Line with our morning coffee, when he came down the hall to tell everyone that a plane had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Like most people, we thought it was some kind of horrible accident; and I remember listening to the voice-over commentary on CNN, even as the second plane appeared in the distant background shot of the live video of the smoking North Tower.
What I recall most vividly, though, at the end of that day (or perhaps it was the next):? being home after work with my ten-month old daughter. She was just learning to walk. On CNN, they were carrying footage of the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace.
The military band struck up the U.S. National Anthem in solidarity. Hundreds of English men and women gathered at the gates, many with tears in their eyes.
When my little daughter saw my composure break, she stared at me for a few seconds before bursting into tears.
Article source: http://blogs.forbes.com/johnfarrell/?p=3767
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