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Re: This May Hurt a Bit: Harvard medical student's blog

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Post by antidaily » Fri, Apr 18, 2014, 5:46 PM UTC

shadowfox wrote: post #9

antidaily wrote: post #2

Med students don't know shit. And don't do shit. But I suppose it's still an interesting perspective.

> Med students don't know shit. And don't do shit That seems like a fairly blanket statement? Care to explain?

I wish I could come up with an appropriate analogy. But basically, as a med student rotating at a hospital, you are simply there. It's beneath an internship, because that's essentially what you do the _next_ year when the real work begins, the long hours, etc. So any insights are going to be about being a med student or bedside manner. Boring. And probably a little pretentious.

Re: This May Hurt a Bit: Harvard medical student's blog

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Post by mikeyouse » Fri, Apr 18, 2014, 5:48 PM UTC

antidaily wrote: post #2

Med students don't know shit. And don't do shit. But I suppose it's still an interesting perspective.

    Shara Yurkiewicz is a fourth-year student at Harvard
    Medical School. She was an AAAS Mass Media Fellow, and
    her work has been published in the Los Angeles Times,
    Discover, and The Best Science Writing Online 2012. She
    is interested in medical ethics and has served as guest
    editor for the American Medical Association's ethics
    journal Virtual Mentor. She conducted ethics research
    at Harvard, Yale, and the Hastings Center and received
    a B.S. in biology from Yale.

4th year at Harvard Medical School, guest editor for AMA's ethics journal, undergrad at Yale, I think she's qualified to write a reflective / opinion-based blog.

Re: This May Hurt a Bit: Harvard medical student's blog

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Post by sscalia » Fri, Apr 18, 2014, 5:57 PM UTC

Lilme wrote: post #20

Based on her writing style, it is a good thing she is going into medicine and not journalism.

Are you fucking kidding me? Her writing is outstanding. Sorry it has some emotion, some reflection, some substance.

Would you prefer a log file of events?

Get real.

Re: This May Hurt a Bit: Harvard medical student's blog

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Post by JeremyMorgan » Fri, Apr 18, 2014, 6:35 PM UTC

FireBeyond wrote: post #17

JeremyMorgan wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're absolutely right, that is what's needed. It's the same with the fire service, you'll notice most firefighters are pretty calm but fast. This is because of countless hours of training and building to make the men and women involved think in a very calm, procedural fashion. It doesn't reduce the gravitas of the situation but it's a situation where you know what you should do because you've trained and/or done it…

Nice to meet a fellow firefighter here.

Nice! yeah it's a bit rare. Is it just me are there a lot of parallels between software and the fire service? haha.

Re: This May Hurt a Bit: Harvard medical student's blog

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Post by antidaily » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 11:10 PM UTC

mikeyouse wrote: post #22

antidaily wrote: post #2

Med students don't know shit. And don't do shit. But I suppose it's still an interesting perspective.

Shara Yurkiewicz is a fourth-year student at Harvard Medical School. She was an AAAS Mass Media Fellow, and her work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Discover, and The Best Science Writing Online 2012. She is interested in medical ethics and has served as guest editor for the American Medical Association's ethics journal Virtual Mentor. She conducted ethics research at Harvard, Yale, and the Hastings Cent…

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/are-med-school-grad...