April 2010
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introduction
dear [potential] future colleagues,
i am serious about medicine, i want you to be serious about medicine too, and that’s really why i’ve decided to take the time to write this and make all this information available to you. i want to challenge you guys to think about why you’re doing what you’re doing and i want to help you prepare yourself (read: not freak out about) for...
December 2009
1 post
Six Rules Doctors Need to Know
matthewdipaolamd:
baseln:
hjluks:
Rule 1: They don’t want to be at your office.
It may seem odd to patients, but most doctors forget that going to the doctor is generally unnerving. We work there, and being in a doctor’s office is normal to us. Not so with most patients. The spotlight is on them and their health. They stand on the scale, undress, tell intimate things about their lives,...
September 2009
7 posts
rejections: university of washington, vanderbilt bringing my interview:rejection list equal. i think. i actually forget already. wow.
i’ve been reading complicatons by atul gawanade. good book. giving me some ideas of what to write for the professionalism duke essay…
ch1 - the dilemma: “as patients, we want both expertise and progress. what nobody wants to face is that these...
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more news: interview invites by mayo and einstein!!!! i’m so excited - both of these schools are in my top 10 :) :) i feel kind of bad that i am more excited about these than pitt when pitt is actually an amazing school and the more i learn about it, the more i like it. i think i have just been guarding myself against being rejected from pitt since deep down i think that the school is too...
Let's Get Fundamental (NYT - Brooks) →
But did Barack Obama really get elected so he could pass the Status Quo Sanctification and Extension Act?
The effect of economic recession on population... →
It improves health! because of increased lesiure time, healthier eating habits
interesting, i guess it makes sense. when we have too much money it tends to be ineffectively used…
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just had a bit of a freak out moment. the national median for mcat is 32 (even though i think the mean is 27), which means that i am an even riskier candidate than i realized. sigh, most of the schools that i want to go i am THE bottom range of the candidates they accept. i never realized how much i have been screwing up my chances in these past 3 years.
There are two articles one must read to understand...
jayparkinsonmd:
How American Health Care Killed My Father by David Goldhill in The Atlantic
and
The Cost Conundrum by Atul Gawande in The New Yorker
These are the two most important articles of the past year on health care. Please take the time to read and digest them…
It’s an unfixable mess that will only be solved by complete restructuring from the ground up— the top down bureaucracy that...
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on monday, i got my first rejection from boston university. i was very disappointed because i am really interested in attending medical school in the boston area because my sister and her husband live there. additionally, bu is actually one of the lower ranked schools that i was applying to, so it kind of makes me doubt my abilities. i am currently considering applying to tufts so that i can still...
August 2009
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I have been really anxious about interviews, not only because 2/3 of my secondaries are not in, but also because a bunch of the schools that I have already submitted to have not invited me to an interview (especially Einstein). However, today, I was ECSTATIC to find my first interview invite from UPitt, which is a school that Dean Wahl flat out told me was a reach school for me! Hooray!!!
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Does Health Insurance Make You Fat? (NBER) →
second assumption: “that body weight decisions are responsive to the incidence of medical care costs associated with obesity” - hmmm i’m not sure if this is glaringly untrue, or if i am only exposed to a non-representative portion of the us population
i’ve never thought about obesity so broadly, realizing that it’s a problem that is spurred on by somewhat favorable...
introduction
blog will be unpublicized for now. hopefully released later for my younger pre-med friends who are in a frenzy trying to figure out their lives and how to trudge through applications. of course, if this ends badly, i might keep it a secret forever.
some things: i signed up for SDN yesterday. besides freaking you out about stats, i think the forum is a pretty good resource for figuring out how...