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Nothing beats kayaking on the Charles
By adamg on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 9:01am
John Halamka sings the praises of his daily after-work six-mile kayak trip through the Lakes District section of the Charles:
... The early evening on the Charles is a perfect time to view widelife - Great Blue Herons, Trumpeter Swans, American River Otters, Snapping Turtles, and enormous Carp. The river is different every time I kayak with variable weather, changing wildlife, and new people. Today I did a rescue of a mother and daughter from Montreal who tipped their kayak in the deepest part of Charles. ...
Now, Halamka is both a doctor and an IT executive, so he has a very precise formula for deciding when to go out on the water: When the sum of water temperature plus air temperature is greater than 120. Much less risk of hypothermia that way should he fall in.
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SEVEN jobs?
"John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is Chief Information Officer of the CareGroup Health System, Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN), CEO of MA-SHARE (the Regional Health Information Organization), Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), and a practicing Emergency Physician."
SEVEN jobs?
Hmm...
...well, it sounds like the first two might overlap a lot? And the chair positions could be positions that don't nearly entail a full-time job. I don't know enough about any of the organizations he lists to know what the actual workload would be like.
I have a few committees where I'm a chair or co-chair or a consultant or something that sounds important on my résumé, but only entails an hour a month (or less...) of actual work.
I definitely can say that there are organizations called "panel" and "board" such as the state licensing boards and various professional organizations where they have some full-time staffers, but then the people with titles like "president" or "board member" or whatever aren't a full-time job. Most are important jobs that require the person to be on top of a lot of things at once and be accountable for a lot, but might require in-person participation at one meeting per month, or even quarterly.
Or this guy might just be that awesome!
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