Thursday, November 26, 2009

The Scooped

This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful that my project appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week. Though it was unfortunate that I was not one of the co-authors. In fact, none of the docs I worked with were listed. Because we didn't write the paper. We had just been working on the same project since this spring, ignorant of their work, and about 6 months behind.

Whitecastle: It's the exact same study, they looked at the same fields, included about 240 in the analysis.

Moi: That's funny, we were looking at 240.

Whitecastle: Our study could've been published in JAMA.

Query (to me): At least we hadn't gotten to the analysis yet. So it's mostly your time that we've wasted.

Moi: This is hilarious.

Whitecastle: You could look at it that way, yes.

(we both laugh, loudly and at times uncomfortably)

Whitecastle: I'm glad you're laughing at this.

Moi: I'm afraid to stop.

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