<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">IMAG MSM POPMOD Discussion topic idea. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Consumer" education. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The work culture of clinical practitioners is highly effected by their reliance (faith) in "the scientific method" as their source of knowledge. They themselves are rarely "scientists". If computational modeling" is "the third science" as some suggests, and it is expected to produce new medical knowledge, the clinicians of the near future will have to be prepared to accept it on faith as there teachers accept the output of observation and experimentation science. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I suggest it is not to early and maybe getting late in the timeline to systemically work on a strategy for eventually having consumers ready to accept the product of computational modeling.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">John Rice</span></div><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Typed with two thumbs on my iPhone. (757) 318-0671</span><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div>The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, ,,, <span style="font-size: 13pt;">He simply pursues his vision </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing."</span></div><div>James A. Michener (1907 – 1997)</div></div></div></body></html>