Luxury and necessity

Weather is predictable with a certain margin of error. Despite the general predictions, certain meteorological events are necessary. Take for instance the snow. A Christmas without snow is unconceivable in our geographical region. However, as unpredictable as weather seems to be lately, we lived an unprecedented snowless Christmas. Without the joy of winter, we lived the Christmas through the carols. Music and poetry, the hope for redemption. They are a must, the very core and meaning of Christmas, but is it enough to actually get into the magic of Christmas!?
The falling snowflakes are associated with the protection of the nourishing earth. Vanishing beauty and frailty are mandatory for survival.
So do the authors of the articles we publish. They need to publish to fulfill their job positions. They depend on it. It becomes so vain and uncommon to publish for the sake of art. It is paramount also to publish in a well positioned medical journal, that is, bearing a high citation index. However, archiving this is quite a performance merely when the author is a beginner. He needs mentoring and coaching. Our mentors instead, have come to an age characterized by excellent clinical performance, but significantly less communication abilities, be them computer related. [More]