Everyday Life Narratives: Archive

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Mar 27th

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Getting Into Med School - Advice from Stanford SOM →

Mar 27th

Admission: Melatonin

Prof: has anyone here taken melatonin supplements?
Z: YES! It's AWESOME.
Prof: And what happens when you take it?
Z: Crazy, crazy dreams. I just got on that shit a few days ago. Changed my LIFE.
Prof: Are you sure you're on...melatonin?

Mar 26th

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The Blog..: God of the Operating Room →

ziyadmd: It’s an old joke: a long line of people waits at the Pearly Gates as St. Peter slowly checks them in, taking an eternity. Little guy in a white coat shows up, carrying a leather bag, stethoscope around his neck. St. Peter waves him through. “What the hell was that?” someone asks. “Why does that…

Mar 23rd

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“To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”

– Henry Ward Beecher

Mar 23rd

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Freshman Composition Is Not Teaching Key Skills in... →

infoneer-pulse: Students in first-semester composition classes are routinely assigned to write a research paper, but this exercise rarely succeeds because they do not yet grasp how to analyze their sources, say the chief researchers of a multi-institutional study of college students’ citations. “We need to be teaching analysis, and a lot of it,” Rebecca Moore Howard, professor of writing and...

Mar 22nd

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“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

– Aristotle

Mar 22nd

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Why this pediatrician quit medicine →

Mar 20th

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Mar 20th

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“PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.”

– From the Devil’s Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce

Mar 19th

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Communication Tips for Physicians →

Mar 19th

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Mar 19th

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“The only thing we have to give is the way we live our lives.”

– Oh Shinnah, Native American Medicine Woman

Mar 19th

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“I wonder what it must have been like, what dignity it must have conferred on...”

– Aurora Levins Morales, in Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity

Mar 18th

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This kid left me speechless

 At the local Chick-fil-a, as I exit the bathroom stall and head towards the sink...
Little boy, about 6 years old: Hey, I like your eye patch.
Me: I just stared at him with a dumb look on my face.
 When I get to the table where my husband and son are waiting with our lunch...
Me: Is there something wrong with my eye?  That kid over there told me he liked my eye patch.
My husband: You should have told him, "Arr...thank ye, matey!"
My son: You should have told him, "I like your peg leg."
Me: Still scratching my head trying to figure out why the kid thought I had an eye patch.

Mar 18th

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Match Day 2012 Contest on Facebook Fan Page →

cranquis: Hey MS4 Med Students! Now that you’ve successfully reached the milestone of Match Day (yesterday), isn’t it time to super-charge the experience by also entering the Cranquis Facebook Fan Page “Picture Yourself on Match Day” contest? Follow the link for details! Contest ends Monday March 19 at 5pm EST! Just to make sure you know what’s at stake, here’s further details about the...

Mar 18th

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“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”

– Abraham Verghese, on life, from Cutting for Stone

Mar 17th

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Mar 17th

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Interesting look at Bloom's Taxonomy →

Mar 16th

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Mar 16th

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The Medical Exam is Not Designed to Engage... →

I couldn’t disagree more with this premise. As someone involved with teaching patient-centered communication skills to medical students, I know that the medical exam is, in fact and practice, taught in a way that structures the entire exam as communication. Communication involves non-verbal events as well as verbal ones. How well a doctor explains a treatment plan, the quiet way the...

Mar 16th

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Facebook, college students, and grades →

I’d like to see a much larger sample size here.

Mar 16th

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Mar 16th

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My post was featured on Kevin, MD today! →

Mar 15th

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Mar 15th

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3 M4's Anticipate Match Day →

Mar 14th

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Thoughts on Patient Care From a Pastor →

Mar 14th

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What Medical Education Can Learn From... →

Very interesting insights.

Mar 13th

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The Art of Medicine, by Jordan Grumet, MD →

This is another thought provoking story about the unexplainable.

Mar 13th

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Mar 13th

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TED, Known for Idea Talks, Releases Educational... →

infoneer-pulse: The nonprofit group called TED, known for streaming 18-minute video lectures about big ideas, today opened a new YouTube channel designed for teachers and professors, with videos that are even shorter. The new channel, called TED-Ed, was announced a year ago, but its leaders are only now unveiling the project’s first videos. There are only 11 as of today, but the goal is to add...

Mar 12th

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Dr. Cranquis' Mumbled Gripes: March is National... →

cranquis: Some online resources for survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury: Brain Injury Association of America — 30 years of experience in activism and support for TBI survivors and researchers SuperBetter — “an online social game designed to help you build up personal resilience in the face of a…

Mar 12th

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At New Website, Learning Becomes Court-Ordered... →

infoneer-pulse: At Community Service Help, www.communityservicehelp.com, the brainchild of Adam Young, criminals sentenced to community service get credit for taking classes like algebra and English instead of picking up trash. The site offers more than 2,500 courses and works with federally recognized charities that have agreed to sponsor offenders’ community service, Young says. Statistics...

Mar 11th

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Mar 11th

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"America is Stealing the World's Doctors" →

aspiringdoctors: New York Times article. “The Council on Physician and Nurse Supply estimates that in 10 years, the United States could have a shortage of 200,000 doctors. Already, one in four doctors working in this country is trained in a medical school overseas (though this includes some American doctors who attended medical school outside the United States). American medical schools are...

Mar 10th

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So You Wanna Be A Doctor?: Pimping Your Résumé for... →

aspiringdoctors: What the hell is this about? The application for the 2013 entering class doesn’t even open until May 1st. When I did it, the primary applications could be submitted to schools at the beginning of June, but that might have changed. I am also aware that it is only March. But, like all large tasks,…

Mar 9th

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Mar 9th

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The New Way Doctors Learn

ziyadmd: A simple technique dramatically improved the memory recall of Harvard Medical School students. Try it for yourself! Turning a medical student into a doctor takes a whole lot of knowledge. B. Price Kerfoot, an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, was frustrated at how much knowledge his students seemed to forget over the course of their education. He suspected...

Mar 8th

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“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve...”

– Nadine Gordimer (via writersrelief)

Mar 8th

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Recent College Graduates Making 8-11% Less Than... →

infoneer-pulse: To the graduating class of 2012: All that money you or your parents have spent or borrowed to pay your tuition for the past few years? It’s not getting the same return on investment it did a decade ago. According to the folks at the Economic Policy Institute, the average inflation-adjusted wage for male college graduates aged 23 to 29 was $21.68/hour. That’s an 11% over decline...

Mar 8th

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