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From: mwalkermd Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 10:44 PM To: [email protected] it would be nice to talk to you before i give my keynote. it's on Feb 1 at 9:30am hawaii time last year a supreme court justice gave the talk (right to die and how=surgeons ignore it) the year before it was the head of the canadian medical assn (a lawyer/doctor) the year before it was the inventor of the frameless sterotactic stuf= (technology/surgery) etc in 50 years it's never been a woman speaker i don't want to screw it up for the other women in the field need to be articulate and credible they are inviting me be i am the only woman who has done both neurolo=y and neurosurgery and am double (actually triple) board certified they also think it's cool that i have never missed a question on a st=ndardized test (sat, mcat, usmle etc) or that i'm a second degree black=belt or speak ridiculous languages and stupid quirky things like that those things are embarrasssing to me and i just think they distract=from any sort of real message seems very egotistical/narcisstic and a talk that whines about being a woman and all the drama is=very played out i'm not a victim i'm super lucky in a zillion ways i've written the talk so many times. i have four possible presentatio=s. not sure which one to go with. my only hope is that the audience comes away inspired but not disaggr=geting me into stupid bits of irrelevant stuff in these 20+ years you've always been good at seeing through the deta=ls and helping me do what is right, important and forward thinking. HELPnnnnnni EFTA_R1_00126801 EFTA01793628