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2009 PROGRAM Meeting Info| Program | Author | Discussant | Directions Dear NPSA Discussant: This year you will be submitting your Discussion directly on line to the American Journal of Surgery (AJS). That means that you will no longer need to bring hard copy and disk to the meeting. You will be receiving an e-mail invitation to submit your Discussion from the AJS, along with directions on how to submit and respond to editorial input on line. This invitation will arrive as we get closer to the meeting, and the Discussion will need be submitted just before the meeting. In preparing your Discussion I recommend that you prepare two documents. The first should be the version you will read at the meeting. This can include the usual pleasantries, any humor, local references, and the particular questions you wish to ask at the meeting. Please remember to keep it under 5 minutes of presentation time. The second should be the actual Discussion you will submit to the journal. This should be a shorter version of the meeting Discussion with the pleasantries, extraneous comments, and “smaller” specific questions removed-this document should read more like an invited commentary, focusing on a few key issues the paper brings up, and limited to 500 words or less. Global, open ended questions are OK to include. Thank you. On behalf of the NPSA membership, we are looking forward to hearing your Discussion at the meeting in November and seeing it in the Journal. Sincerely,
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