In the video, he sounds like someone at a cocktail party or a professional convention, glad to have happened on a comfortable topic.
The hotel setting, the lackluster pastries and the overhead PowerPoint presentations give eBay University the air of a professional convention mixed with a spiritual revival.
It is also a gathering, some professional convention watchers said, that will further advance the evolution of the event into a marketing vehicle.
The New Yorker, February 28 , 1948P. 19 A physician who attended a professional convention in Chicago was awarded a handsome mantel clock for the excellence of an exhibit he'd prepared for the occasion.
Rozena Suchodolsky, 29, a graduate student in chemistry from Ramat Gan, Israel: "I had a professional convention for a week, and, because I got married in June and didn't have any time for a honeymoon, my husband and I took advantage of it.
Often, no professional convention exists, and courts have opined that the so-called patient's right to decide means, among other things, that they should decide which information is pertinent to them.
We are not exceptional in this way, with the notable caveat than our professional convention allows us to tear a heckler a new asshole if we like/can, and reframe the disrespectful hijacking of our work into something satisfying and interesting for an audience (oh hey, Nina! Great to see you! Thanks for coming!).
It also leads them to resort to professional codes and conventions in their speech and writing that, as a colleague in English recently lamented, make them "sound awfully like each other".
In the United States, companies routinely hire doctors as consultants to market drugs and devices to their colleagues and other health professionals at medical conventions and small gatherings.
