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Эдуа́рд Хами́тович Матро́сов (; урождённый Рафка́т Хами́тович Бекбула́тов, ; ) — советский боксёр, советский и казахстанский тренер, мастер спорта СССР, заслуженный тренер Казахской ССР, заслуженный тренер Республики Казахстан, почётный гражданин города Караганды.

Биография
Родился в 1944 году в селе Токаревка (ныне посёлок Габидена Мустафина) Карагандинской области в семье сотрудника НКВД Хамита Шакировича Бекбулатова и учительницы Зайнаб. По национальности — татарин. Отец Эдуарда Матросова по роду деятельности служил в разных городах СССР. Последней оказалась Караганда (УНКВД по Карагандинской области), откуда он был призван на фронт Великой Отечественной войны, где и пропал без вести. Дед — Шакир Хасанович Бекбулатов, был купцом 1-й гильдии, одним из богатейших в Пишпеке. В конце 1920-х убит при раскулачивании.

Семья Матросовых переезжала к бабушке в Ульяновскую область, впоследствии вернувшись в Караганду.

В детстве поменял имя Рафкат на Эдуарда, а перед поступлением в Куйбышевское суворовское училище сменил фамилию с Бекбулатова на Матросова. В период обучения в училище пристрастился к спорту — лёгкой атлетике и боксу. Окончив в 1962 году суворовское училище, вернулся в Караганду.

В Караганде устроился работать на шахту № 38 проходчиком. Параллельно занимался боксом у известного тренера Николая Ли, под руководством которого выполнил норматив мастера спорта СССР став чемпионом ЦС «Трудовые резервы».

Поступил в 1964 году в Карагандинский политехнический институт, однако после первого семестра перевёлся на факультет физического воспитания Карагандинского педагогического института (ныне часть КарГУ).

В 1968 году призван на срочную службу в ряды Вооруженных сил СССР. Службу проходил в спортроте в Алма-Ате. Чемпион Среднеазиатского военного округа по боксу. После армии решил стать тренером.

В период с 1970 по 1985 годы работал старшим тренером ДСО «Енбек» и сборной Карагандинской области, в школе высшего спортивного мастерства. Параллельно был внештатным корреспондентом областной газеты «Индустриальная Караганда».

В 1985—89 годах — консультант, национальный тренер сборной Республики Камерун по боксу, готовившейся к выступлению на Олимпийских играх 1988 года в южнокорейском Сеуле. В конце контракта совмещал этот пост с должностью технического директора сборной.

С 1 декабря 2002 года и по настоящее время работает тренером-преподавателем Карагандинской областной СДЮШОР по боксу.

Награды и звания

 почётная грамота Президиума Верховного Совета Казахской ССР
 нагрудный знак «Отличник народного просвещения Казахской ССР»
 нагрудный знак «Отличник физической культуры и спорта»
 мастер спорта СССР
 заслуженный тренер Казахской ССР
 медаль «10 лет независимости Республики Казахстан»
 почётное звание «Почётный гражданин города Караганды» за большой вклад в развитие спорта города Караганды (16 мая 2007 года).
 заслуженный тренер Республики Казахстан
Также награждён орденами высших степеней Республики Камерун и Казахской ССР.

Известные воспитанники
 Шишкин, Игорь Юрьевич — обладатель Кубка СССР, бронзовый призёр Кубка мира.

Семья
Женат. Супруга — Галина Ивановна, врач. Сыновья — Игорь и Ренат, бизнесмены.

Эдуард Матросов приходится дальним родственником дважды Герою Советского Союза Талгату Бегельдинову.

См. также
 Тлеубаев, Леонид Рахимжанович
 Бекбулатов, Шамиль Хайрулович

Примечания

Шахтёры СССР
Боксёры СССР
Боксёры 1960-х годов
Тренеры по боксу СССР
Тренеры Казахстана по боксу
Выпускники Куйбышевского суворовского военного училища
Выпускники Карагандинского педагогического института
Заслуженные тренеры Казахской ССР
Заслуженные тренеры Республики Казахстан
Спортивные функционеры Казахстана
Награждённые Почётной грамотой Верховного Совета Казахской ССР
Почётные граждане Караганды
Бокс в Камеруне

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Home News William Hill Lawsuit Against FanDuel Is Settled
William Hill Lawsuit Against FanDuel Is Settled
January 16, 2019 July 17, 2019
William Hill's copyright suit against FanDuel has been settled.
William Hill sued FanDuel for copying a sports betting guide almost verbatim
FanDuel's version even contained text referring to William Hill
An undisclosed settlement has now been reached
Background to this case
The US operations of William Hill brought a lawsuit against one of their biggest competitors, FanDuel. This civil suit was brought in the New Jersey federal court.
The suit alleged that FanDuel, which is majority-owned by Paddy Power Betfair, was guilty of the infringing William Hill's copyright in a betting guide.
The guide in question is titled "How to Bet Guide." It was published in June 2018, in advance of the opening of sports betting in New Jersey. An identical version of the guide was issued by FanDuel in pamphlet form at its sportsbook at the Meadowlands Racetrack.
A version of the pamphlet was also offered on FanDuel's online platform, which targets customers in New Jersey. Large swathes of the William Hill guide were directly copied, including examples in which the odds, markets, and teams were exactly the same.
William Hill was even mentioned in the FanDuel version of the guide. When discussing the different types of sports betting markets, the FanDuel guide refers to "professional wagers offered by William Hill." Therefore, it looked like a fairly clear-cut case.
Was there a trial?
William Hill sought a jury trial and damages for this infringement of copyright. They asked the court to award "all profits realized by FanDuel due to its wrongful acts" as well as legal fees and court costs.
William Hill US officials noted that they usually do not bring suits of this type, but it was such a clear-cut case that they could not ignore it. They said that it is ridiculous and that any funds awarded will go to aid creative writing programs in New Jersey's colleges and universities.
What was the outcome?
The case has now been settled. The CEO of William Hill's US operation, Joe Asher, did not disclose the amount of the settlement. However, he did say that some funds would go toward the treatment of problem gambling as well as to creative writing programs.
The settlement was agreed upon at the start of January, and FanDuel paid the agreed-upon amount to William Hill on January 14. The suit was filed in October 2018. In June, William Hill released the guide through their Monmouth Park Racetrack sportsbook and the nearly identical guide was issued a month later by the FanDuel sportsbook at the Meadowlands Racetrack.
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William Hill and FanDuel have been doing battle in New Jersey since sports betting became legal. They both have a significant presence in physical facilities and through online platforms.
New Jersey hit new gambling revenue highs in 2018, with sports betting playing a significant part. Figures for 2018 from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show that December was a record-breaking month. Online poker and casino revenues rose by almost 40% year on year.
Sports betting became legal in the state in June, and the intake by sportsbooks surpassed $1bn (£780m) by the end of the year. The December intake was slightly down from the November figures, dropping to $319m (£249m).
The actual revenue for the two parties was almost $21m (£16m). Sports betting traditionally has had slim margins. FanDuel's sportsbook at the Meadowlands Racetrack led the way with betting revenue of $9.1m (£7.1m). The William Hill sportsbook at Monmouth Park could manage only the third best revenues for December, with $2.32m (£1.81m).
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Q: Pin Re-Verification I'm still at the beginner stage of learning Java and I'm currently having a problem in trying to re-enter the PIN code that I first entered to ensure that I entered it correct the second time. It's like setting up a passcode for your mobile device when I open it.
Here's where the problem happens:
int firstSet, secondSet;
firstSet = Integer.parseInt(jTextField2.getText());
jTextField2.setText("");
jLabel1.setText("Re-Enter PIN");
secondSet = Integer.parseInt(jTextField2.getText());
if(firstSet==secondSet)
{
    jLabel1.setText("PIN VERIFIED");
}
else
{
    jLabel1.setText("PIN INCORRECT");
}

This is the error I'm getting:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""

I hope that someone can help me. :)

A: You have the problem here
jTextField2.setText("");
// ...
secondSet = Integer.parseInt(jTextField2.getText());

You are setting the value of jTextField2.text to "" and when you try: secondSet = Integer.parseInt(jTextField2.getText()); you're getting an empty String from .getText(), so method Integer.parseInt() is complaining with NumberFormatException
As pointed in the Integer:parseInt(String) API

Throws:
  NumberFormatException - if the string does not contain a parsable integer.

All this code is executed without interruption, so if you want to do this in this way with only one method call.
First delete this line:
jTextField2.setText("");

And use 2 text fields.
firstSet =  Integer.parseInt(jTextField2.getText());
secondSet = Integer.parseInt(jTextField3.getText());
//                                     ^ here!!!!

ADD-ON
In order to avoid similar problems when ueser enter non valid data, or no dagta at all I would recommend you to safe-parse the values of
try {
    firstSet = Integer.parseInt(jTextField2.getText());
    secondSet = Integer.parseInt(jTextField3.getText());
} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
    jLabel1.setText("PIN NOT VALID; TRY AGAIN!!!");
}

ALTERNATIVE if you want to use same jTextField and ask user 2 times to repeat the PIN CODE you must adapt your method in order to perform 2 actions:

*

*Ask user for pin + accept

*Method call: convert pin and save it in a class attribute.

*Erase JTextField

*Ask user again for pin + accept

*Method call: if in class attribute you have a pin stored, compare with user input.

Example
class YourClass {
    int firstSet = 0; // global attribute!

    public void yourListenerMethod() {
        // if firstSet == 0 is first attempt
        if (firstSet == 0) {
            firstSet = Integer.parseInt(jTextField2.getText());
            jTextField2.setText("");
            jLabel1.setText("Re-Enter PIN");
        //
        // if firstSet != 0 is second attempt so compare
        } else {
            int secondSet = Integer.parseInt(jTextField2.getText());
            if(firstSet==secondSet)
            {
                jLabel1.setText("PIN VERIFIED");
                // reset the pin if necessary
                firstSet = 0;
            }
            else
            {
                jLabel1.setText("PIN INCORRECT");
                // reset the pin if necessary
            }
        }
    }
}

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Travis Scott Announces His Own London Pop-Up Shop
by Jesse James / July 6, 2017
Houston native wordsmith, producer and much more, Travis Scott is back at it again. This time around Travis will take his talents to London where he will open up a pop-up store in London's Soho district. Taking to Twitter Travis tweeted a flyer for the event, which can be seen above, stating "ON THE WAY… TWO DAYS ONLY."
The pop-up coincides with Scott's tour dates and will be found at Berwick Street's One by One tattoo studio. No other details were let loose, though this will definitely be something worth checking out if you are in the area. Check out the flyer up top and stay tuned for much more from Travis Scott coming soon.
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Australian psych-pop auteurs Tame Impala have shared their latest single 'Borderline', which they first premiered on Saturday Night Live.
Since releasing theircomeback track, 'Patience', last month, fans have eagerly been awaiting new material to follow up their groundbreaking record Currents back in 2015.
The new tracks pick up where Currents left off, embracing a more dance-pop sound and experimenting with sweeping synths and disco basslines imbued with Kevin Parker's introspective songwriting.
"We're on the borderline, On the borderline/Caught between the tides of pain and rapture," Parker sings in perfect falsetto, while alternating between high and low tones in a call and response fashion.
The band first debuted the track live during their performance on Saturday Night Live on 30 March, a surprising move from a studio perfectionist like Parker.
With hardly a guitar in sight on SNL, the band is also slated to headline Coachella this weekend in Indio, California, where their set-list is sure to include more of their psych-rock back catalogue. The band's festival performance will also be featured on the YouTube's livestream of the festival at 11pm this Saturday, 13 April.
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Q: To_Date is giving me ORA-01722: invalid number Sample Value of LOGOUT column from the table : 2021-07-08 14:57:34.000
I am having the below SQL server query as part of my sql script and it is working fine.
 MAX(ISNULL(LOGOUT, '2999-12-31')) AS MAX_LOGOUT

i have converted this line of query in to oracle as below
 MAX(NVL(LOGOUT, TO_DATE('2999-12-31', 'YYYY-MM-DD'))
          ) AS MAXLOGOUT

I am getting the error ORA-01722: invalid number. How to fix this error

A: What is the value of LOGOUT?
This work's fine for me:
SELECT MAX(NVL(SYSDATE, TO_DATE('2999-12-31', 'YYYY-MM-DD'))) AS maxlogout FROM dual

Result:

21/07/2021 17:24:06

A: MAX(NVL(LOGOUT, TO_DATE('2999-12-31 14:46:13', 'DD.MM.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'))) AS MAXLOGOUT


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Q: Fourier vs Laplace transforms In solving a linear system, when would I use a Fourier transform versus a Laplace transform?  I am not a mathematician, so the little intuition I have tells me that it could be related to the boundary conditions imposed on the solution I am trying to find, but I am unable to state this rigorously or find a reference that discusses this.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

A: Fourier transform (FT) - (roughly) a tool to visualize ANY signal as a sum of sinusoids.
Laplace transform (LT) - a tool to analyze the stability of systems.
Why can't we use FT to analyze systems? because it cannot handle exponentially growing signals. That in turn is because a signal needs to be absolutely integrable(necessary, but not sufficient condition) for it to have a FT.
On the other hand, LT is specially designed (by Laplace himself after he rejected the thesis of Fourier and extended FT) to handle exponentially growing signals so that now you could if a system has an exponentially growing output ( $a > 0$  where $s = a + jw$) or exponentially decaying output ($a < 0$).
Therefore if you have a square wave type signal and you wanted to break it up into sinusoids of various frequencies, you'd use FT and on the other hand, if you have a system and you want to understand how stable it is, then you'd try to get LT of it's impulse response to further analyze the systems relative stability.

A: For typical practical usage it is essential to know what properties has the system you are trying to describe. Usually you are able even get some insights about possible shape of solution before you really solve equations, only by means of symmetry considerations. So then you have to consider one or another transform not because of formal effectiveness, but because your solution has to have practical interpretation! What do you do with solution if you do not have any interpretation for example for coefficients of equations you get?
Fourier transformation sometimes has physical interpretation, for example for some mechanical models where we have quasi-periodic solutions ( usually because of symmetry of the system) Fourier transformations gives you normal modes of oscillations. Sometimes even for nonlinear system, couplings between such oscillations are weak so nonlinearity may be approximated by power series in Fourier space. Many systems has discrete spatial symmetry ( crystals) then solutions of equations has to be periodic so FT is quite natural ( for example in Quantum mechanics). With any of normal modes you may tie finite energy, sometimes momentum etc. invariants of motion. So during evolution, for linear system, such modes do not couple each other, and system in one of this state leaves in it forever. Every linear physical system has its spectrum of normal modes, and if coupled with some external random source of energy ( white noise), its evolution runs through such states from the lowest possible energy to the greatest.
It depends on initial conditions and boundary values and restrictions but for finite systems and linear equations Fourier Transform gives you transformation from linear differential equation to matrix one ( which is nearly always soluble and has clear theory and meaning) whilst Laplace Transform from DE to algebraic one with all advantages and disadvantages of it.
Laplace transform gives you solution in terms of decaying exponents so it is quite useful in relaxation processes, but it has no physical interpretation, usually no invariants are connected to any "vectors" of such representation, there is no discrete version of such transform with physical meaning. It is used in various engineering problems such that electrical circuits, queue theory etc. many equations in diffusion processes has easy Laplace transform solutions.
Definitely it would be easier to advice you what method of solution to use if you would describe what is the process you are trying to describe.
References: try to Google such words: energy spectrum, normal modes, eigenstates, eigenvectors in context of linear differential equations - solving DE by means of integral transforms in practical way is usually described in books on Mathematical Methods in Physics, and is connected to response functions, distribution theory, Hilbert and Banach functional spaces etc. It is very very broad area. What is more, if you asking in specific context ( for example in context of stochastic processes, or quantum mechanics)  , then probably you are looking for some certain interpretation of such transforms and not for formal theory. This differences sometimes tricky because mount of mathematical books focus on existence theorems etc. which for many applications are obvious ( providing we have working, well formulated model, which ususaly we have!)
It is very difficult to get one useful reference without knowledge of area of application, because its are is such frequently used method! In analogue on mathematics level is like ask for application of metric spaces, or Stokes theorem and its meaning: it so broad area that probably you may just put in in every other area ad it fit! Nearly every Quantum Mechanics book will have explanation and interpretation of Fourier method. Laplace transform will be used in every books regarding signal processing! Many of them have very well and practical introduction to such methods. I prefer physical books, for example Byron Fuller "Mathematical Methods of Physics" for intermediate level.
Here you have many, many references: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FourierTransform.html
Here you have another one list: http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/books/FourierTransforms.html

A: Here is a heuristic point of view from engineering considerations. I must confess I do not fully know the mathematical reasons.
Suppose you want to consider $f(t)$, a function of time, $t$. Imagine that as we look at the direction of positive $t$-axis, the graph of $f(t)$ s like looking behind to the trail $f$ left in time. If you do not care about the future, ie the case $t < 0$, then it makes sense to use Laplace transform, because the transform integral goes from $0$ to $\infty$. On the other hand, if you care about the future also, it makes more sense to consider the Fourier transform. The transformation integral here goes from $-\infty$ to $\infty$.
So if you want to include future in your analysis, then Fourier transform is the way. This makes sense in electrical engineering applications for example, where you consider sinusoidal signals and you have an idea of what is going to come.
However for some physical systems, you only have the data of what happened until then. And you want all your analysis to be based on this, without predicting the future. Then Laplace transforms is the way.
If you do not care about the future, ie if you can declare $f(t) = 0$ for $t < 0$, then the Laplace and Fourier transforms coincide: The Fourier transform is nothing but the Laplace transform evaluated on the imaginary axis. Such systems are called causal systems: the response depends only on what happened so far. This a terminology from control systems or signal processing.
For control systems engineering, stability of electrical networks, etc., Laplace transformation defines a more natural transfer function, and is easier to deal with, and the poles and zeros would immediately tell you about the stability of the network under consideration. Here we use Laplace transforms rather than Fourier, since its integral is simpler.
For instances where you look at the "frequency components", "spectrum", etc., Fourier analysis is always the best. The Fourier transform is simply the frequency spectrum of a signal. If you know that the sin/cos/complex exponentials would behave nicely, you might as well want to express a function in terms of these and observe how it behaves then.
Another example is solving the wave equation. Fourier himself used Fourier series/transforms for heat conduction problems.

A: For many years I have tried to obtain a good answer for the Laplace and Fourier transforms relationship. Many of the explanations just mention that the relationship is that s=a+jw, so the Fourier transform becomes a special case of the laplace transform. Sad explanation.
Better explanations deals that Laplace is used for stability studies and Fourier is used for sinusoidal responses of systems.
Using that information, I conclude that as systems are stable if the real part of s is negative, that is to say there is a transient that will vanish in time, in those cases, it is enaugh to use Fourier. Of course you will lose the insight of the transient part. Laplace should be able to determine the full response of a system, be it stable or unstable, including transient parts.

A: Laplace transforms appear in physics because of causality: a response function $R(t-t')$ which gives the response at time $t$ to a force at time $t'$ should vanish for $t\lt t'$, in order not to violate the temporal relation between cause and effect. Because $R(t)=0$ for $t<0$ its integral transform is the Laplace rather than the Fourier transform.

A: The solution pattern behind is like this:
Using a transform is like changing your point of view. In some cases the problem might get such easy under the new point of view, that you are able to solve the problem there and then you take the obtained solution and transform back to your original point of view.
Here we might try to solve a differential equation, thus looking for some function (or distribution) which
fullfills the differential equation and additional conditions.
The Laplace transform has this nice property:
$f'(t) = s F(s) - f(0)$
This means a transformed differential equation will have the derivative $f'(t)$ replaced by the above term, so a simple equation with just occurences of $F(s)$ and the start condition $f(0)$ are left. Such an equation we can solve for the unknown $F(s)$ by simple algebra.
The change of point of view from $t$-domain to $s$-domain made the problem of solving the differential equation easier by replacing it with an algebraic equation.
The trickier part is transforming back the found solution $F(s)$ to $f(t)$ by applying an inverse Laplace transformation (or looking it up in some table).
The Fourier transform has a similar property:
$f'(x) = 2\pi i \,t\, F(t)$
which in a sense transforms the differential operator $\partial_x = \partial / \partial x$ into a multiplication with the variable $t$.
This is used to solve differential equations like the diffusion equation, wave equation, Schrödinger equation, Klein-Gordon equation etc. by turning them into algebraic equations, as $\Delta = \sum \partial_i \partial_i$ gets transformed into $\sum x_i x_i$.
Again you solve it and then transform back.


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#include "gpio_pins.h"

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gpio_input_pin_user_config_t switchPins[] = {
    {
        .pinName = kGpioSW2,
        .config.isPullEnable = true,
        .config.isPassiveFilterEnabled = false,
        .config.interrupt = kPortIntDisabled,
    },
	    {
        .pinName = kGpioSW3,
        .config.isPullEnable = true,
        .config.isPassiveFilterEnabled = false,
        .config.interrupt = kPortIntDisabled,
    },
    {
        .pinName = GPIO_PINS_OUT_OF_RANGE,
    }
};
gpio_input_pin_user_config_t accelIntPins[] = {
    {
        .pinName = kGpioAccelINT1,
        .config.isPullEnable = false,
        .config.isPassiveFilterEnabled = false,
        .config.interrupt = kPortIntDisabled,
    },
    {
        .pinName = kGpioAccelINT2,
        .config.isPullEnable = false,
        .config.isPassiveFilterEnabled = false,
        .config.interrupt = kPortIntDisabled,
    },
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        .pinName = GPIO_PINS_OUT_OF_RANGE,
    }
};

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gpio_output_pin_user_config_t gpioUartDemoTxPin[] = {
    {
        .pinName = kGpioUartDemoTX,
        .config.outputLogic = 1,
        .config.slewRate = kPortSlowSlewRate,
        .config.driveStrength = kPortLowDriveStrength,
    },
    {
        .pinName = GPIO_PINS_OUT_OF_RANGE,
    }
};

/* Declare UART 0 TX / RX pins for the gpio_uart demo */
gpio_input_pin_user_config_t gpioUartDemoRxPin[] = {
    {
        .pinName = kGpioUartDemoRX,
        .config.isPullEnable = false,
        .config.isPassiveFilterEnabled = false,
    },
    {
        .pinName = GPIO_PINS_OUT_OF_RANGE,
    }
};

/* Declare Output GPIO pins */
gpio_output_pin_user_config_t ledPins[] = {
    {
        .pinName = kGpioLED1,
        .config.outputLogic = 1,
        .config.slewRate = kPortSlowSlewRate,
        .config.driveStrength = kPortLowDriveStrength,
    },
    {
        .pinName = kGpioLED2,
        .config.outputLogic = 1,
        .config.slewRate = kPortSlowSlewRate,
        .config.driveStrength = kPortLowDriveStrength,
    },
    {
        .pinName = GPIO_PINS_OUT_OF_RANGE,
    }
};

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Leadership Exchange: Engaging the Millennial Doctor
In partnership with inVentiv Health, MM&M found a millennial doctor to ask about her frustrations with the existing pharma marketing model to her willingness to text patients.
Larry Dobrow
While plenty of resources have been devoted to studying millennial patients, far less is known about the likes and dislikes of millennial physicians.
In partnership with inVentiv Health, MM&M corralled one — Weill Cornell fellow Sona Shah — to ask her about everything from her frustrations with the existing pharma marketing model to her willingness to receive texts from patients. How does she feel about the educational resources at her disposal? Would she open her door to a pharma rep?
The answers to these and other pressing questions can be found within this edited transcript of a nearly two-hour-long discussion.
Larry Dobrow (senior editor, MM&M): We might as well start on the broadest note possible. How different an animal is the millennial doctor?
Ezra Ernst (CEO, Physician's Weekly): It's only fair that we should start with the millennial doctor herself.
Sona Shah, MD (endocrine fellow, Weill Cornell Medical Center): I'll do the honors. One of the huge things about our generation is that we live in a connected world and we've been taught to be innovative in our thinking. A lot of our learning occurs via advancement through technology — social media and digital spaces that prior generations didn't have access to or, really, the pressures to learn from. We rely on these spaces to improve health literacy for our patients, as well as improve communication with patients.
We also have access to a huge network of other physicians, so we're constantly collaborating with other doctors and learning from other people. It's a team-oriented approach. Because of this, our generation has become very efficient in how we work and learn. In our inpatient setting, in our offices, and even in our outpatient settings, everything is connected through the EMR. All of our appointments are made through platforms like ZocDoc.
So everything is seamless. And a lot of management, especially in diabetes, has become team-oriented, which is different than what it used to be like for the baby boomer generation. Those things are new to our generation and they're exciting.
Jeanine O'Kane (president, inVentiv Health PR Group U.S., pictured): Do you think technology is also changing the nature of the interaction with patients in terms of how you're giving and receiving information and how they expect to get and receive it?
Shah: I think so. Our generation is under a lot of time constraints. We see tons of patients and, because of that, I often think the patient–physician relationship is sort of compromised. When I see patients in the office, I'm sitting behind a computer, I'm typing my notes, and I'm talking to them at the same time.
So I do think that technology has impacted how we interact with patients, but at the same time I don't know if there's a way around it.
Lucy Rose (president, Lucy Rose and Associates): There was a landmark study done by the University of North Carolina in 2012, so it's already a little bit old. But it lists a lot of the characteristics of millennials versus those of previous generations. They look at the concepts of teamwork and collaboration and note how you guys love to work together in different ways.
O'Kane: If you become a doctor, regardless of whether you're a millennial, there's at least some desire to serve and protect the health of others. So that's a shared value. All the other dynamics that are happening now, around teams and collaboration, are probably related to the other millennial characteristics, like perhaps the importance of work–life balance. Millennial doctors today are sort of creating an environment that matches up with those characteristics and values.
[To Shah:] I think first you're a doctor and second you're a doctor who is a millennial who comes with those characteristics and values. Is that fair to say?
Shah: I think it is. What's different for our generation is that shift toward patient-centricity. I think patients used to enlist a lot more trust in their physicians and confided in them almost 100%. Millennial physicians approach the concept of patient-centricity as trying to understand what the true voice of patients is, what their needs are, what their experiences are.
Rose: Which is interesting because physicians aren't hanging shingles as individual doctors but come together in group practices, which relates to the connectedness technology-wise because you can connect them in different ways. It puts a whole different spin on these concepts we've been talking about, because you have a multidisciplinary team all around you.
Shah: Exactly. Something like 50% of physicians are working in hospital-based settings or in large group settings. No one really goes into solo practice anymore.
Part of the appeal of that is that there is shared cost, but also it's that you have your colleagues there and you can run ideas off them. It's more of a team-oriented, collaborative approach, which is something that's new to our generation.
Ernst (pictured): There are systemic shifts happening outside the physician's control that have had major impact. There was an article in The New York Times recently that said physicians are prescribing more opioids because they have to get a high satisfaction rating from their patients. There's a lot of pressure on the physician to make the patient happy.
One other systemic thing I find fascinating is that the millennial generation has not dealt with the pharmaceutical industrial complex in the same way that previous generations dealt with it.
Dobrow: You make them sound like the Death Star.
Ernst: Before 2005 it was a different world. There were junkets and trips and things like that. I don't know any millennial physicians who are used to that. What they're used to is a patient saying, "I saw this commercial, I'm very interested in this product, it can help." There's this consumerism of patients who are now advocates for themselves and have the same technology you have. It's the "WebMDification" of the patient, who comes in with a ream of paper and tells you how best to treat him or her.
Stacy Wallace (sales rep/clinical specialist, Genentech): The collaboration definitely does involve the patient. The patient is part of his or her own health. I'm sure for physicians that could be good or bad. There's a lot of information out there that patients may not understand or that may be incorrect.
[To Shah:] Your predecessors are resistant to a lot of this change. They had their own practices and now they're told they have to change to EMRs in New York State. Their scripts are now only electronic. They're not used to going in an exam room with a laptop and pecking away while they're seeing their patients. They tell me, "I wouldn't even be a doctor now. I would never do this." Especially the internal medicine people — they feel they need to see 20 or 30 patients an hour because they have to meet a quota.
Shah: There are still a lot of challenges. There's all the Medicare coding and documentation regulations and utilization measurements. There are endless pressures and a focus on writing notes and malpractice and so much else that has really detracted from patient care. Even though it might seem like practicing medicine now is easier, there are certain external pressures that have made it pretty difficult.
O'Kane: And returning to your earlier point, that probably has driven the emphasis on collaboration and teamwork.
Rose: And then there's the business of medicine, which medical schools never bothered to teach until recently. But because of all the complicated issues, they've started to understand the importance of adding that as part of the normal curriculum.
Ernst: The most trafficked area in our sites, in our print publication, on Twitter, on Facebook, everywhere, is business-of-medicine questions. How do I set up my practice? How do I navigate an ACO? How do I deal with Meaningful Use 2 and 3?
Ten years ago, at Medscape, the largest CME course was palliative care. It's like, "I know how to do the medicine, but how do I navigate the other pieces?
Peter Kirk (CEO, Sermo), pictured: Adding to what everyone is saying, it's not just an age group thing. It is the context we find ourselves in, and that is one of being a digital native. We did some quick polling of millennial doctors prior to coming to this meeting and what's so interesting is that only 15% say they use consumer social networks like Facebook and Twitter to interact with patients. They're digital natives, but with patients it's very much "that is my private life."
Shah: We were just talking about that. We don't really use social at all.
Kirk: It's too much exposure.
Shah: Patient confidentiality and HIPAA have steered us away from that. But we do use physician networks, such sites as LinkedIn, Doximity, and Sermo.
Dobrow: Which leads us into a question about consumer and professional networks. Is there any one site or tool you find most useful? Is there anything that makes your job easier or even more fun?
Shah: Doximity and Sermo, absolutely. Both of them have been helpful in terms of doing prior authorizations. You can email and text through some of the applications, which are HIPAA-secured. Some of them give you research alerts and some of them even provide referral networks.
Kirk: But most people just put them all in one bucket. Just as we use Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook differently, it's the same thing with professional social networks. Doximity is much more akin to LinkedIn. Figure 1 is much more akin to Instagram.
Ernst: What about news sources? My father was a pulmonologist in the Bronx and he'd just sit there and look at journals.
[To Shah:] Where are you now?
Shah: I think the same. We're still using PubMed for some journal articles. There's one mobile app that I was recently introduced to called Journal Club, which is pretty much PubMed but in a digital form. We're still using Epocrates. Up to Date is huge. And we're still using actual journals.
O'Kane: Here's a question: What will happen to the medical meeting? Will that exist only virtually?
Shah: Maybe down the road. Right now we're still going to all these meetings in person. Virtual meetings? I don't know.
O'Kane: That's a business venture waiting to happen.
Rose: How about this: If you could wave your wand and create whatever you wanted, is there a way you'd like to have information packaged? How do you determine what to look at?
Shah: The Journal Club app I mentioned — it summarizes the latest literature in a more concise format. You don't need to read the entire article to get a sense of what it's about.
O'Kane: It's probably how that information can get to you, with all of these other things going on.
Kirk: In the millennial poll we did, 95% said they learn from medical journals and 75% from their peers and 50% from medical education and CME. Pharma reps only came in at 28%.
Ernst: The reason we're having a resurgence is there are no more pharma reps.
Wallace: I'm a dying breed. That's the problem. We can't get in.
Shah: There are two schools of thought on how we view pharma reps. Some think information about drugs and technology from a pharmaceutical rep is very biased and they want to avoid all interaction. Then there are people like myself who think that some of the information is helpful.
It's helpful to learn about new products and new technology and also have direct input, which we otherwise wouldn't have. With information from reps, we just have to be a little bit more cognizant about making prescribing decisions based on it.
Ernst: It must be hard given how much influence DTC ads have on patients. They're coming in and asking about a specific brand, not about a class of products. It's difficult for physicians to answer those pointed questions about a brand without talking to an expert, like a rep, about it.
Now, whether that means doctors are going to prescribe it, that's a completely different question, but they need to at least learn about the brand. This goes back to the systemic shift that we've been talking about, how millennial patients also differ from older patients. They're very willing to say, "I don't care what you recommend. This is what I want."
Shah (pictured): Exactly. Which is why it's helpful in that sort of setting to have some sort of background. We're under so much pressure to see patients that we don't have a lot of time to read up on everything that's new in the industry. We do have to be a little bit aware of where the information's coming from and how the data is being pulled, but I don't think we need to avoid all engagement with pharma.
Dobrow [to Shah]: Patients coming in with brand requests, patients coming in with a huge roll of questions. How does that affect the way you go about your job? Is the so-called empowered health consumer a good thing from where you sit?
Shah: Patients constantly challenge us. They're constantly bringing in information that they read on the Internet or on social media, which is obviously something that prior generations of physicians didn't see. It's hard to practice, especially with the limited time we have, when patients constantly demand certain things. As we were saying earlier, patients want what they want, especially millennials. That makes the job a little tricky. But it's been that way the entire time since I started practicing medicine. It's something I've gotten used to. I didn't experience it the other way around, you know?
It can be a good thing. Patients are now constantly reading up about their diseases and how to manage them and how to change their lifestyles. There's a lot more accountability. It helps us practice medicine when patients participate in their care.
O'Kane: I was wondering if there was a behavior change on the part of the patient. Are they actually making changes or is it just the thirst for information? Meanwhile, people are living longer and there are more patients who deal with chronic disease.
If you're a millennial doctor with this group of older patients who have chronic conditions, but also this other group of younger patients, how do you tackle that dynamic? How do you deal with that spectrum of patients coming with different attitudes about their role and what they want and need from you?
Shah: Well, in general, millennial patients aren't going to their primary care doctors as much, myself probably included.
Ezra Ernst: You're indestructible at that age.
Shah: But when they do they look for a holistic approach. They want not just advice on healthcare, but on nutrition and organic foods and exercise. It's more of a lifestyle approach than it is for the older generation with chronic disease, which is more targeted.
O'Kane: You said earlier that you were surprised about the challenges that you get from patients. Does that mean the older patient is more traditional in terms of listening to what the doctor says and taking that course of action?
Shah: I think so. The millennial generation is better in that they're using technology to communicate with us, whereas the older generation doesn't do that. For them, it's all about face time. It's the millennials who are using the patient portals.
Ernst: Are they really using them?
Shah: Yes, especially at Cornell. Patients are always on the patient portal texting and emailing. I mean, even in my clinic I sometimes give out my phone number or email so that patients can text or email me.
Rose: That you get such a limited time with them in the office has something to do with that. What did we used to call it in the old days — "doorknob consults," because on the way out they'd say, "One more thing, doc …" With the portals, patients can go back home, they can digest what they heard, and then ask that follow-up question that maybe didn't occur to them during the visit.
O'Kane [to Shah]: Is it overwhelming?
Shah: It is, especially with diabetic patients emailing their glucose logs every week. But it's a team-oriented approach. There are NPs and PAs to help. There are nurses to call patients back.
Ernst [to Shah]: Can you specifically talk about what millennials are using the portals for? Is it just communication with you or are they looking at education materials and patient handouts?
Shah: For the most part they're looking at labs and communicating.
Ernst: They're interpreting lab results?
Shah: That's the downside of it. They have access to all their labs and then a number will be flagged if it's abnormal and then they'll panic because they don't know how to interpret it. Then they'll email us frantically for an explanation and about why no one has called them back. It's great that patients can access their labs, but it adds more work for us.
Dobrow: How about patient responsibility? Do you expect patients to report to you about how they're doing in terms of informing you enough but not too much? What are your expectations?
Shah: We can't have expectations on an initial visit. We have to expect that they don't know anything. In terms of follow-up, I do expect patients to have some accountability for their care, as all chronic diseases require attention on a day-to-day basis. We're constantly hovering over them to manage these things.
Rose (pictured) [to Shah]: How do your patients sift through all of the available information? If you were to Google "diabetes treatment," you might get 20 million hits. How do you help your patients help themselves?
Shah: It's a huge problem. Regardless of what we tell them, they're constantly googling things. There's really no good way for them to sift through that information and know what's valid and what isn't.
Dobrow [to Shah]: Is there anything that pharma can do to make your life easier in this regard?
Shah: A really important part of our job is patient education and pharma does do some of that. But if there were a way that pharma could look at all the specialized information out there and translate it into a more easily understood resource or platform for patients, that would be incredibly useful. We don't always have time to educate patients on everything.
Wallace: But everything has to go through legal. I might be talking about a particular disease state, but then I can't pull out a branded piece to speak about a product. The doctor says to me, "What do you have?" I say, "I can't tell you, doctor. I have to come back another day to do that."
Rose: Pharma does have some really good information about disease states and some really nice sites out there about treatment. So the question becomes: Is there a way pharma can provide even better information packaged in a way that you think would be more helpful? Yes, there are ways to work around regulatory and legal things.
Wallace: We also have nurses that work with my team who can go in and speak directly to patients. We know doctors don't have time, especially for a rare disease that's very complicated. They don't have the hour that, at a bare minimum, it's going to take.
Shah: This is all news to me. I didn't know a lot of this information is out there. So if there's a way that that could be advertised.
Wallace: It's tricky. You're so busy and these patients are very sick. But they have to get counseled. We have 24-hour hot lines. We can't go to a patient's house, but we can meet at a third-party location.
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Richard Doll Seminar - New insights for patients with, or at risk of, diabetes - the EXSCEL and ACE trials
Professor Rury Holman, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
Tuesday, 12 June 2018, 1pm to 2pm
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Rury Holman founded the University of Oxford Diabetes Trials Unit (DTU) in 1985, and was appointed as the first Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Oxford in 1998. He runs an active Translational Research Group undertaking investigator-led early phase trials of novel therapeutic agents, new medical devices and complex interventions. He also designs and runs investigator-led global cardiovascular outcome trials. In addition, has a major interest in risk prediction and has co-produced the UKPDS Risk Engine and the UKPDS Outcomes Model, which is used by NICE to assess the potential impact of antidiabetic therapies. Professor Holman has received 16 national and international awards and has published over 325 peer-reviewed papers that have been cited more than 55,000 times.
In this seminar he will discuss results from the recently completed EXSCEL and ACE trials. EXSCEL tested the addition of once weekly exenatide (GLP-1 receptor agonist) therapy to standard diabetes treatment in high risk diabetic individuals, while the ACE trial investigated whether lowering post-prandial glucose in people at high risk of diabetes was beneficial.
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Dateline: 21 July 2021
Getting back to business!
Thirty two club members attended the club Annual General Meeting at the club room on Tuesday 20 July. One of the highest turn-outs for some time.
They were welcomed by Club Chairman, Bernard Cooney who outlined the way in which the meeting would proceed. The full minutes of the meeting can be found on the website under the tab 'Club Info' in line with the club's policy of transparency in making available to members details, as far as possible, of the matters discussed by and acted on by the Club Management Committee. All but one of the current members of the management team were present at the meeting.
Officers Reports
The meeting received reports from the Club Secretary, Graham Turner, reviewing what had happened over the past year, and from the Club Treasurer, Ian Brownrigg, who presented the audited accounts for the year ended 30 April 2021. Although the accounts showed a fairly healthy current position, this was in part at least due to a number of covid related grants that had been received. The grants had been made to help the club through the very difficult period of the corona virus pandemic and to help it get back on its feet again as it came through the pandemic. The Club now needed to ensure that it used the funds wisely investing in and supporting the local community back to action and activity in the post pandemic era.
The full reports can be found in the minutes and were unanimously accepted by members present.
Finance Resolutions
Two Resolutions were put before the meeting, the first proposing membership fees for the 2021/22 year, and the second recognizing the loyalty and support of members through the pandemic despite the fact that the club premises had been closed to adults for something like 8 months of the last financial year.
Both resolutions were fully endorsed and supported by members present and thus carried unanimously.
Appointment of Officers and General Committee
The existing Officers, Chairman Bernard Cooney, Secretary Graham Turner and Tresurer Ian Brownrigg, were all unanimously re-elected unopposed. 6 members were elected to the General Committee, these were: Lesley Blanchard, Jenny Givens, Keith Hardman, Dave Noden, Ray O'Leary and Keith Williams. All Officers and general committee members serve for 1 year only, but can stand for re-election.
It was further agreed that the club should have a separate group to look at and decide upon the club's participation in the Liverpool League for the forthcoming season.
The Chairman also recommended to the meeting that current honorary President, Billy Clayton, should remain in that post and continue to hold it for the future as long as he is able. Again this was unanimously endorsed.
Above, the members of the Management Committee face the meeting! From the left: Jenny Givens, lesley Blanchard, Keith Hardman, Ian Brownrigg, Bernard Cooney, Keith Williams and Dave Noden.
Below members at the meeting.
Meeting Highlight
One of the highlights of the meeting was when long-serving member, Tom Bell, was nominated to be appointed a Life Member. Due to personal circumstances Tommy is not able to play as much table tennis as he used to. However his contribution in helping the club maintain and improve the fabric of its building over the years has been immeasurable. It was also his efforts that helped the club get over the line in acquiring its new building, by introducing the club to potential sponsors whose support enabled the club to complete the building purchase debt free. Committee members Lesley Blanchard and Jenny Givens presented Tom with a small gift for his services together with a bouquet of flowers for his wife Joan. It is fair to say Tom was somewhat overwhelmed by the fuss!
The Secretary advised the meeting that he believed the club had the potential for an even brighter future, as it moved forward out of the corona virus restrictions. It was ideally placed to invest in the local community as it returned to action and activity, and to demonstarte that table tennis truly is a sport for all and for all ages.