This past week, I attended my first ever Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) conference. It was a joint event with the American Society for Microbiology’s (ASM) ICAAC, a feat that has not been done in recent years. To say I was overwhelmed with the educational options and my senses numbed by the extravagant pharma […]
Women Doctors: Waste of Money? I think not!
A friend forwarded me an article from the British Medical Journal titled “Are There Too Many Female Medical Graduates? Yes”. My friend is a Ghanaian woman who is in the research years of an MD/PhD degree at Harvard. She was none too pleased. I didn’t get riled up because objectively the points raised are grossly true. […]