This man is so ridiculous.
I started my long weekend with an impressive 3 hour nap.
8 AM physics section had me feeling like this:
But now I feel like this:
Off to Hep-TEV training final evals!
Who can honestly say that their own beliefs and values do not influence the decisions they make, no matter how subtle and subconscious that influence might be? That we expect clinicians to divorce themselves from their own personal values while they deal with the complex moral problems presented by end-of-life decisions could be construed as naive.
If doctors feel that their beliefs, religious or otherwise, are influencing their ability to fulfil their professional obligations, then they must have the professional integrity and self-awareness to acknowledge this, and remove themselves from any situation in which their values are incompatible with delivering the standards of care demanded of them. Perhaps it is time to replace the “no religion, no politics” admonition with that more ancient aphorism hewn into the stone of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi: know thyself.
Model Minority Myth Mucking Up Asian-American College Pursuits
Representative Mike Honda (D-CA) laying down truth.
It is dangerous because this model minority myth prevents the provision of public and private resources designated specifically for minority serving institutions, exacerbating a deleterious and downward spiral among underperforming AAPI subgroups.
Large sectors of the AAPI population, in fact, suffer from soaring secondary school dropout rates, low rates of college participation and low college completion rates. These low educational attainment rates correlate with high unemployment rates, spiraling AAPI subgroups further into poverty. The unemployment rates of poorer-performing Pacific Islanders and Southeast Asians are three to five times greater than those of many East Asian and South Asians.
I just made a loan payment. And for some reason my brain went straight to this song. <3
In Medical School Shift, Meeting Patients on Day 1
But in the last few years, medical schools including those at N.Y.U. and Harvard have been doing some soul-searching about whether this lock-step curriculum creates doctors who lack humanity, who see patients as diseases rather than as whole people and who have what the medical literature calls “ethical erosion” — a loss of idealism, empathy, morality.
By advancing some of the clinical component into the first two years, the new curriculum also gives students more time in their third and fourth years to study popular public health issues like nutrition and how diseases might affect people differently depending on race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status.
This is a silly question:
Dr. Craig T. Tenner, an internist, talked to students about the pros and cons of preventive medicine, asking them to imagine they were tied to railroad tracks. Should they be given a pair of binoculars? “Would you want to see the train coming or not?” he said. Would they want to see it when it was two miles away? One mile away?
Three Books For Surviving Graduate School
It’s a silly piece, but I’m only posting it because Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection received much-deserved recognition.
Available on C-SPAN. I just finished it. Ohhh politics… watched while doing some mundane tasks :P
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