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response to a reader

While I was away on vacation, a reader emailed me the following question:
Hey Mudpudder….I am in a combined BS/MD program in NYC and I really need your advice. I am asking you for advice because you are one of the few physicians I have encountered that are honest and open about their profession.  As mentioned [...]

medical students not socializing enough?

Check out this post on Dr. Shock’s blog on a recent study that medical students are socially segregated from others. 
In my experience, medical training by its nature is very intensive.  I wouldn’t want to go to a doctor who wasn’t intensively trained.  Most people wouldn’t.  That said, the practice of medicine is also a very [...]