Category Archives: medical school

how to ruin a brilliant scientific career

Posted on 2006/05/30 by mylifemypace

Get married! This article describes a study that found that scientific productivity decreases with age, but less severely in never-married men. “The productivity of male scientists tends to drop right after marriage,” says Kanazawa in an e-mail interview from his current … Continue reading →

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yet another reason why i’m not cut out to be a surgeon

Posted on 2006/05/25 by mylifemypace

Besides the fact that I’m clearly not Type-A enough (though I’m working on it)? Well, the answer is video games! In this study, surgeons who warmed up before surgery by playing Super Monkey Ball for 20 minutes right before performing surgical drills … Continue reading →

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how to freak a neurotic med student out

Posted on 2006/05/23 by mylifemypace

Be their PCP and call her (or more accurately, have a PA call her), telling her, “Dr. X would like you to come in to discuss your lab results.” What’s there to discuss?! It was just my annual exam! There’s … Continue reading →

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grand rounds 2.35

Posted on 2006/05/23 by mylifemypace

This week’s Grand Rounds is now up at Parallel Universes. Enjoy!

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why, oh why md/phd?

Posted on 2006/05/22 by mylifemypace

Now that we’ve gone over what’s involved in this whole MD/PhD thing, I guess it’s time for me to go into why exactly I chose this path. I first thought about what I wanted to be way back in second grade … Continue reading →

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grand rounds

Posted on 2006/05/16 by mylifemypace

Another week, another Grand Rounds. Check it out at Doc Around the Clock.

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myers-briggs and the med student

Posted on 2006/05/15 by mylifemypace

Med students like free stuff. Even free personality tests. That’s why I gave up several precious hours of sleep to take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) during my first year of med school. Or maybe I was just curious as … Continue reading →

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top 10 1st- and 2nd- year medical student responses to “so what specialty are you going into?”

Posted on 2006/05/14 by mylifemypace

Tell anyone with half a brain that you’re a medical student and you’ll likely be met with this question, the answer to which is kind of hard to know during the basic science years when we’ve had virtually no exposure … Continue reading →

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the doctor will sleep with you now

Posted on 2006/05/11 by mylifemypace

Am I the only one who found Wilson’s having slept with his cancer patient (on House) particularly disturbing? Sure, I realize that it happens. But Wilson?! And with a terminal patient? That just seems extra wrong because it reeks of … Continue reading →

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i’ll take the bigger needle if it’ll get it over with sooner

Posted on 2006/05/10 by mylifemypace

That’s what extreme dreaders said when faced with receiving a more painful stimulus sooner versus a less painful stimulus later. I have to admit that I’m quite the chicken when it comes to pain. And I sure know the feeling of … Continue reading →

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