University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 3M6, Canada.
J Epidemiol Community Health. 2010 Feb;64(2):105-8. doi: 10.1136/jech.2009.094219.
Almost 30 years ago, my career in public health sciences detoured along an uncommon pathway: I became a wordsmith, finding unambiguous words and phrases to define the concepts, methods and procedures of epidemiology and related sciences. Playing with words made me well known among epidemiologists, a curious outcome because my contributions are otherwise minor. This shows how important words are.
大约 30 年前，我在公共卫生科学领域的职业生涯走上了一条不寻常的道路：我成为了一名文字工作者，用清晰明确的词语来定义流行病学和相关科学的概念、方法和程序。对文字的把玩让我在流行病学家中声名鹊起，这一结果有些奇怪，因为我的贡献其实微不足道。这表明了文字的重要性。
