Recap of 2013 American Heart Association Session

Just a few weeks before the 2013 American Heart Association Sessions, Shelley Wood, the managing news editor of theheart.org emailed to ask if I was up for going to the meeting. With trips to San Francisco, Denver, Athens and Amsterdam already in the books this year, I had counted 2013 as a win. I was ready to ease into Thanksgiving and conclude the bike season with a couple of cold-weather CX races. But when opportunity presents itself, ie,,,when the big strong guy in front of you attacks, it makes sense to follow. Yes. Yes. I am in. I was excited to see my THO friends again. I was excited to write and learn. My role at meetings is to be a physician adviser for the THO journalism team and to write a daily opinion column on a topic of interest. THO is very careful to separate its news and editorial content. We meet each night before dinner to discuss the next day’s events. In many cases, as media, you get a heads-up of what’s coming before a study is released. This allows for varying degrees of pre-writing. (I used to think journalists were speed-writers because lengthy essays on a topic were posted immediately after an announcement. Journalists do write far faster than I do, but having the study results and discussions beforehand helps.) Daily routine: The daily routine for me is to get up very early (0400) and start writing. I don’t know about you, but my writing brain works much better in the morning. In the best case, when writing about a big study (with...
Source: Dr John M - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: blogs