When I was in medical school, our anatomy lab was supervised by a retired orthopedic surgeon who both looked and sounded like the Tall Man from the Phantasm movies.  From events in his life that he talked about, he must have been about 85 years old.  We were tasked with coming up with a theory about how our cadaver…

Have you seen Dagon?

Medicine is very complex. You are legally able to practice medicine if you finish one year of training post med school and can pass your board exams (ie Step 1, 2, 3). However, that’s very different from who will hire you. To be hired by a pre-existing medical institution, you have to undergo what is called…

In Boston, a group of restaurants and markets in Chinatown banded together to form their own app due to the downturn in visitation to Chinatown.  I haven’t heard whether that was a successful venture or not.

I can get the flamin’ hot puffcorn through their service.  It’s all the way at the bottom of the available item list.

His YouTube ads have certainly convinced my 9 year old son he is the best candidate.

I’d love to see the study that shows that reduction in duty hours reduces medical errors. So far, they use a lot of indirect evidence, such as testing residents for signs of fatigue and whatnot, but I have seen no evidence that reduced work hours lead to better doctoring in any way. It leads to happier doctors, no…

Who do you expect to do the work when your take your leave? Who do you expect to pay for the extra residents to cover during year-long sabbaticals?

It would take a huge rejiggering of how medical training is being done. We have too few funded residency spots as it is. Any reduction in somebody’s workload as a trainee leads to more work being done by someone else. There is no ability, right now, to expand the residency “work force” to allow for more time off or…

Unfortunately, something has to give somewhere. Over the last decade, there has been a movement to make training more enjoyable for every resident, male or female, by reducing duty hours (ie, limiting it to 80 hrs per week, 24+4 hrs per shift, 10 hrs between shifts, and averaging 1 day off in 7). This was initially…

There is a pretty good Documentary about the American approach to breast cancer awareness called Pink Ribbons, Inc. It really brings home the idea that companies make a lot of money off of pink and that the actual effect of the campaigns is to marginalize people with uncurable disease.

A thin excuse to reference one of my favorite clips.

As Bo Burnham taught us, Hamlet is just a rehash of The Lion King...

One of my close friends in college grew up in Minnesota before coming to Boston for college. She had never met an Asian or Jewish person before. She openly admitted that the only reason that she had met a black person in real life was that she played high school basketball. Boston was an eye-opening experience that…

As someone who has either attended or worked at seven different universities, I can tell you that successful people come from all kinds of educational backgrounds.

If Steve Bannon were to buy him, could he suck him?

When I was a resident, I had a patient who was a prostitute with Turner’s syndrome, so she was a favorite of people getting their (legal?) pedophilia jones on. She had gonorrhea of the throat (which is the first time I had seen that), and this whole case was freaking out my attending. He was totally not prepared for…

I’m a huge scotch drinker and it’s interesting to see an article like this published in a major forum. I wonder what source you used for what distilleries are ‘popular’ as you included at least 3 distilleries that are defunct (St. Magdalen’s hasn’t made whisky since 1983) and good luck paying less than $4,000 for a…

I love Session 9 and always recommend it when these sorts of topics come up. Glad to see another fan! Your Sam Neill double shot are great recs too!

I’m convinced that the whole point of the trade down was to have a lower cap hold against the salary cap to make it more possible to theoretically lure a max free agent. I don’t think a max free agent is actually going to come, so it is probably a waste, but I think that was the main motivating factor.