I recall starting a new job when I was in my late 30s. I had been running my own business importing women’s fashion clothing into the UK and wholesaling it to upmarket independent women’s dress shops from a fancy display unit in the rag trade area, behind Oxford Street in London. Then the supply end in South Africa failed to deliver. As I was closing things down and letting the showroom, I thought how much I would enjoy working with property. An old friend was now running the

Medicine in the United States is generally fragmented as a profession, as are Academic Medical Centers as institutions. Academic Medical Centers (AMC) typically consist of a College of Medicine with its afliated University Hospital. The University Hospital often has a closed medical staff, meaning that only the faculty members of the medical school are able to care for patients in the hospital. Community physicians who are not faculty members are typically not allowed to mana

From empirical studies on joint conversations in the classroom (e.g. Finlay 2015), it becomes apparent on the one hand that skills such as listening and dialogical speaking to one another are regarded as fundamental, but often presupposed and not developed jointly in class; on the other hand, it also becomes apparent that the conversational behaviour of teachers contributes little to the emergence of dialogues (cf. Lüders 2011; de Boer 2015). In this way, a basic attitude of