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 […]
Sleep Deprivation in Medical Education
Going to Seattle for the SHEA/CDC Training Course proved to be very tiring. I flew JetBlue and had no flight delays or mishaps with the exception of a $7 blanket offer and lack of peanut snacks as someone on the plane had a severe nut allergy. I flew on late night flights to and fro, spent […]
Aha! I Feel Vindicated.
Vindicated! In a recent post, I took aim at a BusinessWeek article and site comments that insinuated that women doctors were a waste of money using the changing scope of medicine as their proof. I countered that those same changes were very much welcomed by the young men in medicine as well and that the […]
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. […]
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