There was an interesting development at the conference I had attended this weekend. The focus of the conference was obstetrical malpractice which is a rather un-nerving topic to start. The speakers were very polished and attempted to inject a little humour to the lectures. With the exception of two speakers, the invited lecturers were all physicians of Irish descent. And you thought the Irish Mafia only operated in the police departments of Chicago and Boston.
The most comic moment though was brought about by modern technology. The last speaker, a lawyer and not a physician started to speak about landmark obstetrical cases. However, his power point presentation stole the show. First the colour of the slides kept going green. Clearly foreshadowing the next audiovisual failure, the complete shut down of the LCD projector. In his attempts to correct the problems, the audiovisual tech guy shut off the auditorium lights, raised the projector screen and then turned off the power to the microphone. The audience was hooting all the way home!
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