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| Jeff W for President? |
| 2008-07-10 16:16:13 |
I think I might need to come up with a platform… :/
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| Science-Based Medicine |
| 2008-07-10 13:01:31 |
This year I had a course called Evidence-Based Medicine. The point of the class was to educate us on how to use the medical literature to determine the best treatments. Medicine has definitely come a long way from bleeding patients as a form of treatment. Now, we have evidence to lead the way.
But I recently [...]...
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| AMA to apologize to black doctors - Health- msnbc.com |
| 2008-07-10 01:27:57 |
AMA to apologize to black doctors - Health- msnbc.com
I just wanted to point out this article. Just have a look at it if you’re interested. It’s a pretty big deal.. made front page of MSNBC.com. Anyways, I’ll save the commentary..
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| Medical Tourism? Insurance may pay — MSNBC.com |
| 2008-07-09 23:28:12 |
Reference: MSNBC.com: Hip surgery in India? Insurance may pay
In the past few months I’ve been hearing about this medical tourism thing. It sounds really cool — maybe even exotic, doesn’t it? You go see the Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world, and stop by the local medical center for a tummy [...]...
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| Missionary Doc in the Making |
| 2008-07-05 12:33:03 |
A friend and classmate of mine is over in Zambia this summer for medical missionary work. He’s blogged about it and uploaded some interesting pictures. If you get the chance, or are interested in medical mission work, check out his site: Missionary Doc in the Making.
I think DoctaJay will be uploading a video as soon [...]...
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| Do I Really Want To Do This? |
| 2008-07-01 13:11:41 |
Honestly, I have asked myself this question numerous times during the year. It’s a difficult questions. I submitted a post about this to The Differential and it just went up today.
Check it out by clicking the logo below:
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| Summer Plans |
| 2008-06-26 12:12:03 |
The summer between the first and second year is pretty much the last free summer. After second year, students have to take Step 1 of the USMLE exam. Then third year begins in July. There is also no summer break between the third and fourth year. I do keep hearing of some extra time during [...]...
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| The Differential - A medical student (group) blog |
| 2008-06-24 14:05:16 |
A while ago, I mentioned that I received an email from one of the editors of The Differential — a medical student blog that is part of Medscape. Medscape is a part of WebMD and is aimed at health professionals and students.
The email, as I wrote before, asked if I would be interested in joining [...]...
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| The Pursuit of Excellence |
| 2008-06-17 16:22:21 |
I had the chance to attend a meeting in which the famous Dr. Leonard Bailey spoke. For those who don’t know, Dr. Bailey performed the first infant heart transplant surgery in 1984 at Loma Linda University Medical Center. (By the way, I really don’t intend this to be a discussion on the ethics of that [...]...
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| On the Wards - General Surgery (Day 6) |
| 2008-06-12 23:20:47 |
A third year told me, “you do a whole lot of sitting around and waiting during third year.”
That pretty much describes my last day on the General Surgery service. Well maybe not completely. A fellow first-year and I chased around senior residents and attendings trying to find someone to fill out our evaluation from.
I asked [...]...
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| On the Wards - General Surgery (Day 5) |
| 2008-06-11 18:05:42 |
Well I finally was able to Scrub in on a surgery case. This is one week after my time on the General Surgery service was supposed to start. The case was a morning case with a scheduled start time of 8:45. But we ended up late.
It was an abdominal surgery case so I was [...]...
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| On the Wards - General Surgery (Day 4) |
| 2008-06-10 23:32:30 |
Since I’m writing a little bit each day during my time on General Surgery, I decided to split the post up. Here’s day 4. You can find days one through 3 by scrolling down or clicking here.
Day 4: I think I have a little better idea of what it means to get “pimped.” I thought [...]...
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| On the Wards - General Surgery (Days 1-3) |
| 2008-06-10 23:26:43 |
I switched to General Surgery after a week and a half at Child Psychiatry. For this rotation, I’ll try to give a day-by-day account of how it went down. And I guess I should write that I was assigned to one third year for the whole time. In a sense, I’m discovering what the life [...]...
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| It’s been a slow week. |
| 2008-06-06 11:47:35 |
Well I finished my week and a half at Child Psych. In my last post I wrote a bit about that. I miss being there. My last day was Tuesday. So technically, I’ve been on the General Surgery service for three days now. But I didn’t go in on Wednesday (my third year was sick [...]...
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| On the Wards - (Child) Psychiatry |
| 2008-05-25 16:07:39 |
I stood at the end of the hallway looking out through the large windows. Outside the sky was gray, the blacktop was damp, and the trees were dripping. It was a stark contrast to the interior. Here, where I stood, the walls were brightly colored, cartoonish faces squinted, frowned, and smiled, and random quotes encouraged [...]...
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| It Is Finished |
| 2008-05-21 00:25:05 |
I’m really happy. The joy is just crazy. It might even be bordering on giddiness. Today I came out of the two and a half weeks of exams. Previously I posted our final exam schedule. All in all, there were thirteen exams spread out over that time period. Three of those were National Boards Subject [...]...
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| What a waste of sleep! |
| 2008-05-02 04:12:52 |
Okay, so I’m sitting here about to go to sleep when I get this urge to go check out Twitter.com. So its not a short visit. I already have an account there from way back when I was trying to stay updated on something. Anyhow, I decide to set it up so I can use [...]...
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| Medical Humor - Compensation |
| 2008-04-29 18:36:29 |
The patient shook his doctor’s hand in gratitude and said, “Since we are the best of friends, I would not want to insult you by offering payment. But I would like for you to know that I had mentioned you in my will.”
“That is very kind of you,” said the doctor emotionally, and then [...]...
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| 101st Post |
| 2008-04-29 01:18:41 |
Well I finally reached my 101st post. Unfortunately I can’t celebrate. It’s been really busy lately. I know my monthly post rate has plummeted recently. Hopefully that has an inverse relationship with my exam scores?
Anyways, this is the last week of lectures. I can’t believe the year is almost over. That’s right, it’s the [...]...
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| Memorial Service |
| 2008-04-28 22:47:22 |
Last week, I attended a Memorial Service at my school. The service was held for all those who had donated their bodies for use in the anatomy labs. There were three schools in attendance (Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Allied Health).
A couple of musical numbers were performed by students and a handful of students volunteered [...]...
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| Wal-Mart and Healthcare |
| 2008-04-28 21:56:45 |
I’ve been hearing a lot about these quick-stop clinics staffed by nurse practitioners. I hear about them in the news or read about them online. They seem to be on the east coast or midwest. Or maybe I’m just not paying any attention to them here locally.
As someone going into a medical career, this is [...]...
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| Cross Cultural Differences and Alternative Medicine |
| 2008-04-05 18:51:43 |
I know it has been a while since I last wrote. Been a bit busy lately. And in my moments of downtime I’ve found myself doing a different type of writing. I’ve been writing some fiction. Mostly because it’s a bit therapeutic. Anyhow, back to Medical School related matters.
On Friday we had two guest lecturers [...]...
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| A Random Medical School Pre-Exam-Week Post |
| 2008-03-11 18:31:38 |
It’s getting busy now. It must seem like I say that a lot on my posts. At least I feel like I write that a lot. But its once again the week before exams. The lecture schedule is tapering off. We have only 3 lectures on Thursday (as opposed to the normal 4) and then [...]...
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| Healthcare Comparisons |
| 2008-03-05 13:26:40 |
Well it looks like the Democratic nomination just keeps getting more complicated by the minute. Last night Clinton pulled off some victories in Texas, Rhode Island, and Ohio. A while back (in a post titled Hillary Healthcare 2.0)I wrote about the healthcare plan proposed by Hillary. My intention was to highlight the plan so that [...]...
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| February — month of Love? |
| 2008-02-29 15:59:52 |
Everyone loves February. It’s the cute little month with only 28 days (most of the time). And it also has that special holiday, Valentine’s Day. But someone also referred to it as Singles Awareness Day. So I guess there’s a mixed audience when it comes to that day.
This month I also had a couple [...]...
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| CNN - Med student struggles to preserve her idealism |
| 2008-02-28 21:13:31 |
Last year CNN ran an article written by Emily Breidbart, then a second year medical student. It’s an interesting read. At times I do feel that it is a struggle to protect my own idealism. But maybe she is doing a better job than I. Because I’ll admit, at times I find myself downright cynical [...]...
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| Family Day |
| 2008-02-27 22:20:19 |
Last week we had Family Day for the first years. Of those who had guests on campus, some had spouses, but I think the majority had parents. My parents came out for the day. My parents and I arrived on campus just before 7:30 AM. We got out of the car and started walking towards [...]...
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| Med School Humor - Bringin’ Study Back |
| 2008-02-27 20:29:13 |
Well I’m a fan of these medical student videos. So here’s another one. Enjoy.
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| Slow Month |
| 2008-02-27 10:00:54 |
Well it has been a very slow month — at least for this site, anyways.
The school side of my life, on the other hand, has been pretty busy.
Although, as I sometimes say, it’s nothing to write home about. The
business has not involved anything really interesting. Not that the
human body isn’t interesting, because it totally is.
I [...]...
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| It Left Me Feeling… SICKO |
| 2008-02-13 00:01:44 |
Courtesy of MichaelMoore.com
I guess I’m slow. I’ve heard that before. But I finally got to see Michael Moore’s documentary on the American Healthcare System. This was my very first Michael Moore documentary. I didn’t watch bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11.
Prior to watching this film I thought that Michael Moore was pretty obnoxious. Not [...]...
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| The Writing On The (Bathroom) Wall |
| 2008-02-11 00:55:37 |
Well I’ve seen the writing on the wall. Granted, it was on the wall of a bathroom stall. And no, I won’t write about what I was doing in there (although my intelligent readers should be able to figure that one out). But this is what it said:
School Socks
Crime Spays
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| Britney Spears Now In Doctors’ Hands |
| 2008-01-31 20:53:02 |
Related Posts: Dr. Phil, have you heard of… HIPAA?
Gabriel Bouys / AFP-Getty Images file
I really don’t want to turn this into a gossip column. And I definitely don’t want to turn this into a cebrinews site. But a couple weeks ago I did post about the medical debacle between Britney Spears and Dr. Phil.
I [...]...
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| Hillary Healthcare 2.0 |
| 2008-01-25 17:15:32 |
Related Posts: Reforming the U.S. Healthcare System
In the January 8, 2008 New Hampshire Primary, Sen. Clinton edged her opponent Sen. Obama by just 3 percent. With Clinton’s recent New Hampshire win following Obama’s strong showing in Iowa, the race is anything but decided.
How will the 2008 Presidential Elections affect the American healthcare scene? Should Hillary [...]...
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| I Want A Bionic Eye! |
| 2008-01-23 01:33:19 |
I WANT a bionic eye! Well who wouldn’t? If you’ve seen the television show on NBC, then you know what the bionic eye can do.
I read an article over at MSNBC.com titled “Vision of the future seen in bionic contact lens.” It looks like we, and by we I mean we as a society, [...]...
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| Conversations - Learning So Much |
| 2008-01-23 01:21:14 |
Usually there are two kinds of conversations I listen to. The first, of course, are the conversations I am involved in. That’s easy. The second, however, are conversations that I overhear.
I wouldn’t call myself an eavesdropper. But sometimes I just can’t help it. People get all excited and into their conversations that it seems they [...]...
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| The Jimmy Legs |
| 2008-01-22 17:51:46 |
I recently saw an episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It’s always an interesting way to get my news. But he did one segment which I’ve included below. Check it out.
I was gonna write about how surprised I am to hear that increased gambling was listed as a side-effect. But I figured that [...]...
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| Doctor Salaries, A Problem Overseas Too |
| 2008-01-21 00:30:21 |
In a previous post (Physician Salaries on the Decline) I wrote about declining physician salaries and how that is bad for healthcare.
I recently found a post from a medical student in the U.K. The system is kind of different there. He talks about the salary a newly graduated doctor would make out of medical school. [...]...
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| Picking Apart My Brain |
| 2008-01-17 02:42:22 |
I was one of the first into lab from my group of eight. On the table was a clear plastic container filled with a solution of 10% formaldehyde. The container sat on a tray — a tray that you might find in a cafeteria.
I slipped the tray out from underneath the container and carefully [...]...
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| Medical Humor - Nurses’ ER Rap |
| 2008-01-16 21:51:47 |
All of the videos I’ve shared on this site have been medical school related videos. This was created by nurses for a National Nurses’ Week Contest. Check it out, and enjoy.
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| Medical Humor - Playing Doctor |
| 2008-01-16 20:06:12 |
The seven-year old girl told her mom, “A boy in my class asked me to play doctor.”
“Oh, dear,” the mother nervously sighed. “What happened, honey?”
“Nothing. He made me wait 45 minutes and then double-billed the insurance company.”
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