Why hijack when you can just sit up there and yell at people, like I do.
I remember about 11 years ago, I worked with a young doctor just out of fellowship. But, given there was no one else at our hospital with an endocrinology fellowship, I figured he was the expert. And, he was.
He gave a talk on calcium homeostasis, and he was nearly run off the stage with interruptions about how he was wrong about calcium. I finally stood up and said to everyone, "Listen, he has been kind enough to prepare a talk and give of his time to try to teach us something. While you may disagree with his comments, please have the decency to wait until the talk is over before questions."
I do think in some ways it was the perfect storm to cause some of shortcomings of the ACUC. And, this is not to say at all that it was not a huge success.
But, I think some of the talks may have worked better if given by only one speaker. It is somewhat difficult to completely prepare a conference over conference calls, but then that is probably how a lot of them have to be done. Finally, the latest version came out only weeks ago making us (definitely me) not familiar with many of the features (especially given the sharp rise in the learning curve). And, this is not a bad thing since I may be indicating that lower level dots had more experience and much to teach us. But, I suppose that did lead a little to the questions/answers coming prior to the end of the talks.
