Monthly Archives: October 2010

Fear of a Drug Seeking Planet

Posted on 29/10/2010 by

[The following was a letter I addressed to my classmates following an in-class discussion that triggered, for me, some of the frustration evident below. Make of it what you will, I've only edited it slightly to remove specific references to … Continue reading →

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Sociobiology 1

Posted on 27/10/2010 by

Today I recommended this book to a classmate. Konner was an anthropologist and ethnographer (his wife wrote Nisa) who decided in his early thirties to go to medical school. The book is primarily a blow-by-blow journal of his third year, … Continue reading →

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Mental Health and Intentional Communities

Posted on 26/10/2010 by

This is a short entry, but the brief version of the relevant history is thus: early twentieth century, there was an awareness of mental illness as illness, which had supplanted the earlier cultural assumption that mental illness was some sort … Continue reading →

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On Keeping Clinical Instructors in Small Group Science Curricula

Posted on 26/10/2010 by

With so many medical schools experimenting with their curricula, either by adding small group study alternatives to lecture sections, or bringing patient contact into the first two years, that it’s worth noting the “traditional” curriculum isn’t a curriculum at all. … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on 22/10/2010 by

Technically, this is an experiment, but a familiar one. I am in med school now (right now, actually, in the library) and find myself continuously beset  by ideas on which I feel the need to expound. Most of them pertain … Continue reading →

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