This annual session is one of the biggest meetings for cardiologist in Japan. More importantly, this conference was established to originally discuss heart sounds. In this context, the session I attended was a main stream of the scientific conference. The other three speakers in the session are well known in this filed.
I arrived at the conference room 30 minutes before the meeting started. I was overwhelmed to see lots of audience waiting in the conference room, although other rooms seemed almost empty.
One of my concerns is whether the sound files of my data work well; my presentation was full of various heart sounds. Luckily, I did a good job without any trouble during my presentation. What made me feel happy was that some doctors came to me and praised my lecture after the presentation.
A few days later, one doctor, who have good knowledge about auscultation, told me that my lecture was the most amazing in the session. I know she might have flattered me, but I was really satisfied.
I have to say I have one regret. I asked my colleague to take pictures of me during the lecture, since this experience would not occur to me again. However, he had forgotten! I have no idea about the reason he failed, but I hope he was too be impressed by my lecture to take a shot.
As you can guess, I might be kind of an optimist.