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The objective tions raised that need test here and a measurement there, is was to share our research to be answered, or the often the cemetery of “doable” projects. interests. In part this was same question asked day Finally I recommended, “Aim low.” to let them know what after day that no one After I said this I realized that it we were doing, thus com- has yet answered. I want might have been a faux pas. After all, pleting their picture of others to do research. I these were doctors. They were all pretty us, expanding it beyond sometimes wonder how smart, all very hard working, dedicated the teaching and clinical the vast bulk of doctors and high achievers. Had they ever in care arenas. This is one do their work, seeing their lives heard anything after the word, area that partly distinguishes medical patients from morning to night, day “aim,” but “high?” I think I should have school faculty and private practitioners, after day, and not getting pulled in to said, “aim for low hanging fruit.” That’s although more about this later. The answer the many questions that must a common phrase that we use when we other objective was to try to excite an enter their minds every day. But, I’ve talk about projects that will have long- interest in some residents to try their learned many lessons in my lengthy term, sometimes difficult to achieve hands at research and for them to find career. One of them is that I’m consid- ends, but may, in the beginning, produce out if they might be as excited by doing ered opinionated. Not unreasonable, I some interesting and useful results, easy this sort of work as the faculty are. don’t think. Not irrational or dogmatic, to harvest. For example, I’m interested My colleagues were very good about just strongly skeptical. Another is that in the problem of fatigue in Parkinson’s describing their work. There were six clinical research takes a lot lot longer disease. I got interested because of one minutes allotted for each of us and than anyone would think possible in a particular patient in whom fatigue was they kept to it. They were succinct and universe where light travels at 186,000 his main problem and when I turned to positive. Some participated in large miles per second. I made two points to the literature on fatigue in PD I found clinical trials. Some used sophisticated the residents. One was that everything that there was none. It was not known equipment. All, most importantly, took at least four times longer than you to be a problem. The “low hanging fruit” were enthusiastic about their work.