I've spent a lifetime observing, questioning and probing. I am dissatisfied by the editorial distortion of the messages I send to my colearners via traditional journals. Clearly there must be a better way to communicate than to have impartial reviewers and editors redraw the image I wish to create. I believe that the Internet provides new opportunities, so I have embarked on a new strategy - to place essays on this webpage as I wrote them. Now you can read the exact picture I wish to draw. I want to start a discussion among interested readers, not necessarily doctors or physician assistants, but anyone with a curiosity to live and learn.

October 31, 2003 Duke Medical Alumni Weekend:

Duke Medical Alumni Weekend, Oct 31, 2003 Bill Stead: Reflections on the Vanderbilt Experiment with Biomedical Informatics (Powerpoint Presentation)

William W. Stead, 1919-2004 Challenging the environmental role in tuberculosis

Probably the best of my writings Gene Stead Looks at Doctoring (pdf)

2004: Thoughts for the Elderly Reducing hip fractures among the elderly with cordless phones

• Dreams, forwarded by a friend
• A generalist and a hemotologist
• Thoughts of the Present from a Perspective of the Past - Craig S. Kitchens, MD

• The value of a liberal education
• The Medical Monopoly - a letter to the New York Times
• Why things never change
• Education and understanding how our brain works
• The New Profession: The Physician Assistant
• PA Profession in Review: A Founder's Perspective
• The Limitations of Teaching, April 1969, Pharos (pdf)
• Distance learning for Non-Traditional Students (pdf)
• Medical schools since the Flexnor report

• Google and the Internet: Is life-long memorization any longer necessary?
• Restoring the Joy of Learning
• Education in Transition: Exchanging remembering for thinking
• What went wrong with the computer revolution

• Using Distance Learning to Provide Medical Education to Non-traditional Students
• Which Medical School will be First to Break the Monopoly
• My Way: Challenging the Medical Monopoly on Deliverying Reimbursible Personal Care

• Trained and Supervised PAs Can Safely Perform Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography

• A letter to John Romano on my 80th Birthday
• A new kind of Christmas letter

Here is a reminder that I fully understand the forgetting curve and wish to use my web pages to help you develop your Internet memory. If you started on my home page and had a Google episode, then here is an opportunity to reinforce your learning. If you pass up this opportunity, then you are moving along the forgetting curve. Here is a window to Google - open and available for you to explore. I suggest that you search for: internet-centric learning . Again we are on top.