One is the risk that colleagues may perceive metascientists as less dedicated to their other lines of research.
His willingness to listen, to think, and to put himself out there -- at certain risk of colleagues' criticism -- is the kind of morally-grounded stance we could use more of in politics, medicine and other professional fields.
The importance of rational prescribing in low-income and lower-middle-income countries is highlighted by the paper published by Risk and colleagues. 1 The authors evaluated the prescribing practices of health professionals treating children under the age of 5 years in 20 different public health centres in The Gambia.
However, that risks upsetting colleagues on the left, increasingly suspicious of the coterie of younger, media-savvy, and discernibly more right-wing frontbenchers around him.
Some players, like Chase Utley, who was back at it on Opening Day, gunning for a catcher on a slide at home, are going to have to figure out how to play this game without risking their colleagues careers with reckless actions.
But there are plenty of real life "as we speak" examples of industries being impacted by changes that can illustrate the risks to colleagues.
"By knowing their blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose numbers, as well as other potential health risks, our colleagues are empowered to work toward or maintain healthy behaviors that can lower their overall health care costs".
Mr. Flimm has a risk-taking colleague in Ms. Meier, who plausibly conveys the body language of an awkward young man.
Who gets the better deal: the cautious economist who sells his house through a real estate agent, or his risk-taking colleague who finds a buyer on his own?
As we have evolved over the past decade to recognize and treat high-risk individuals for multidrug-resistant pneumonia (for example, healthcare-associated pneumonia), Shorr and colleagues' risk model allows for that initial discrimination of the high-risk groups.
