O.R./Analytics at Work Blog

I’m excited to be seeing you soon at the INFORMS Healthcare conference. It’s amazing that this specialized conference, offered for the first time, features 13-14 parallel tracks. Congratulations to the organizing committee for putting together such a rich schedule. As part of my preparations for leaving, I was looking over the latest travel news and noticed that a computer glitch at United Airlines had led to the stranding of thousands of passengers.

Doctors can be of all kinds, but the most basic division is between a generalist and a specialist. A generalist is someone who understands the body as a whole while the specialist knows more about a specific part of the body -- the heart, say.