Our experience suggests that timely conversation before serious illness is a balm at times of crisis and that proactive engagement by clinicians is welcomed by patients and their families.
In this bustling atmosphere "The Disappearing Spoon" is a timely conversation piece, what with chapter headings like "Take Two Elements, Call Me in the Morning" (about elements used for medical purposes) and "Poisoner's Corridor: 'Ouch-Ouch.' " Mr. Kean clearly knows that his stories and insights require a very user-friendly presentation.
We discussed this a few weeks back in a panel conversation with startups and financial analysts — a timely conversation, as some of these companies reach the scale to potentially IPO.
In a series of tweets, Jackmaster set off a timely conversation about representation and prejudice facing women in the music industry.
It's a timely conversation not only because of the impending twentieth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide but especially because of the international community's failure to punish Bashar al Assad for slaughtering children in Syria.
But women of various political ideologies who said in interviews that they had struggled with how to balance work, family and society's inevitable judgments, largely disapproved of the debate's tone, calling it demeaning and superficial, even as the issue remains as timely a conversation as ever.
Systematically reviewing this kind of evidence is particularly timely because conversation analytic findings are increasingly being used to underpin quantitative evaluation [ 46], communication training [ 47], and interventions which have proven effective in enhancing health and social care practice [ 48- 50].
In Shakespearean tragedy, it didn't have to happen: rescue was one call or timely doubt or conversation away.
They also need to participate in conversations about timely issues and trends, through their company blog or posting on LinkedIn.
