Friends at conferences - please do not assume that the people that you talk to do not know anything. I just got told that I should read what Stanton et al found about pain.
I. Am. Stanton.
I. Am. Stanton.
Just to be clear: I would never expect people to know what I look like! The more hilarious part of this was that the earlier part of the conversation had more of a condescending tone with recommendations of what I should read, which happened to be MY paper. 😂😂 life, hey?
Wow - thank you all for sharing your equally (if not more so) cringeworthy stories. It seems this might be a common theme? 🤣
It is amazing, and frankly, inspiring to see such a fab group of people standing up for their awesomeness.
It is amazing, and frankly, inspiring to see such a fab group of people standing up for their awesomeness.
Since there have been quite a lot of Q’s about what I said and response:
I literally replied “I am Stanton”, held some serious eye contact, and then gave a big smile.
I literally replied “I am Stanton”, held some serious eye contact, and then gave a big smile.
Response: Visibly shocked, awkward silence, some attempted back-pedalling and then we both had a laugh. I told him that it was a massive compliment that he recommended my paper, that I am glad he enjoyed it and found it useful,
...but that in the future he might want to be careful not to assume that other people don’t know things...especially when you are at a conference.
We all make mistakes (I know I certainly have), but hopefully the message got across.
We all make mistakes (I know I certainly have), but hopefully the message got across.
This was the paper - actually a small proof of concept study about the possibility of cross-modal modulation (ability of one sense - vision - to modulation another sense - nociception- to reduce pain) in people with osteoarthritis. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
I was an invited speaker at this conference to discuss this paper and some of my other work in osteoarthritis.
