Medicine
The First Call
Panda’s just trying to ruin my day: The definition of eternity is the time between midnight and five AM. If you look hard enough you can almost see the clock hands moving backwards and no matter what you do, it’s always just a little after one. In fact, it will be one AM for hours. [...]
A Word of Advice
This just in: Medical school is reaaaalllly expensive. Think about that before you apply. That is all.
What’s Wrong with the Health Care System?
I love it when other people do the work for me. Hoover discusses this recent Jama article concerning residency work hours: Nearly half of all months had violations during ambulatory settings and nearly 62% of months had violations where interns were working on inpatient services. The ACGME needs to start cracking some balls if they [...]
The Wisdom of Atul Gawande
I’ve never read a single thing that Dr. Atul Gawande has written–and he’s written plenty. His resume includes two books, 30 columns for Slate, and numerous articles for the New Yorker. He’s also a Rhodes Scholar and a graduate of Harvard Medical School. Of course, he is a surgeon–so that’s at least one strike against [...]
Snooze Alert
If there is anything more boring in medicine than watching someone else be an anesthesiologist–I’d like to know about it. Talk about boring…sheesh.
