Ideally, you block out a half day per month for a workshop, to catch up on professional journals, to interact with people and ideas outside your day-to-day work.

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Questions of when voluntary euthanasia can be permitted, the nature of consent and the role of doctors and families are regularly explored in both the popular media and professional journals.

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Researching the 1980s recently, I went through a vast pile of professional journals and was struck by the difference between then and now, how appallingly thin, tentative, falsely contextual and philosophically pretentious the work was 20 years ago, while busily declaring itself the new wave.

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As Matt Blaze has written, the academic journals and professional societies that claim the copyrights on these works and then charge libraries exorbitant fees for access have become essentially parasitic, making a great deal of money while doing very little of value.

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They can pitch them to doctors and pharmacists only in medical journals and other professional publications.

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He trained a generation of leading human embryologists, founded the field's first professional society and began a series of journals to spread its research findings.

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