Taking a page from the aviation industry, medicine has turned to simulation as an important modality in training medical students how to respond in complex situations. Today as part of our training on how to respond to a patient in cardiac arrest, we went through a proctored simulation. Down in our medical school basement (though […]
Match Day
The great and daunting Match Day approacheth. On March 18, myself and every other matching medical student will find out where in the country our residency position will be. It’s an interesting sociological phenomenon, because it combines the seriousness of training to care for the sick and dying with an application process akin to online […]
The Zika Virus and Causation
The Zika virus epidemic in the Western Hemisphere has been a tragedy. It appears to have sickened many babies with the condition microcephaly, which is characterized by babies being born with smaller heads. Babies with microcephaly are likely to experience developmental delays. However, do we truly know that Zika is the cause of microcephaly? In […]
