On Friday, I volunteered to be a moulage participant for an Advanced Trauma Life Support course being offered for doctors at my medical school’s affiliated hospital. Essentially, I was was made up to look like a trauma victim so that the people in the course could run through what they would need to do based [...]
‘Medicine’
Playing dress-up
Sunday, October 10th, 2010“Humanism” and “professionalism” in medicine
Sunday, September 12th, 2010I just finished my first set of exams for the year, so naturally, I’m slacking off to wax philosophical about my existence in general and my life as a medical student in particular. “Humanism in medicine” or “humanistic medicine” has become a bit of a buzz phrase in medical education. Likewise, “professionalism” is a word [...]
A word from the pharmacologists
Saturday, September 4th, 2010The following is a real-life lecture slide from my pharmacology class (highlighting mine): Talk about having a biased outlook…
