Recent content by Brett Snodgrass

The USMLE website no longer permits the download of the program. A previous version of the Primum software can be found on archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20200318214724/https://usmle.org/orientation/2020/InstallFredV2ChromeStep3.zip

Would it be correct to say that some abstracts are peer-reviewed research, whereas others are limited to pamphlets? Here is the situation that prompted me to share my opinion with open arms for criticism. I thought I had read on a forum that if something is an abstract, it is by definition a...

The Honorable Commissioner considered all the information available to her and ruled equitably. She asked many questions, and even wrote that my effort to care for patients was admirable. It would behoove a physician to exercise such a judicious mindset regardless of whether they are reviewing...

I don’t condone my actions, but writing it was malicious is not accurate. Did you know that the program director repeatedly refused to talk with me about the content that she wrote in my file? I’m busy earning CME, and impulsive insults from anonymous users with incomplete information does not...

“Of course, of course.” Lying to the State medical board about not causing an unnecessary neck dissection, while under oath during an April 2014 deposition is surely “not” perjury. Also, it’s definitely “good” to buy a book, have another resident ask me if I bought it and then register the book...

Are you sure? It’s seems predicated on the story being sketchy. People perusing this forum are presumably interested in science and truth. They will probably ask for or search for additional information before jumping to conclusions or making prejudicial assumptions. The ad hominem person...

The general dislike of the use of the third person is noted. Writing in the third person is a means to dispassionately describe what was an emotionally-charged situation. The story is thoroughly-detailed and has multiple supplemental references, with more available upon request. “Sketchy” is a...

In addition, writing in a third person manner that utilizes one or more proper nouns can provide the reader, at a sentence level, with more information than a sentence which only uses pronouns.

It seems to be open to debate.[1] Reference: 1. Hoogenboom BJ, Manske RC. How to write a scientific article. Int J Sports Phys Ther. 2012 Oct;7(5):512-7. PubMed PMID: 23091783; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3474301.

Touché

Please permit me to emphatically state that I do not believe that the PD is a bad pathologist. Surely her skills and knowledge are good-to-excellent.

Oh goodness, I was hoping the Missouri Board would stop lying, but they have no shame. Is it ethical for Physicians to lie in court? Is it ethical to lie to the Georgia Composite Medical Board and falsely inform them that Snodgrass was on probation at UMKC? A medical board that lies, even in...

The argument was, in context, regarding communications, and that he passed a national communications test twice. She never took it, and did not have the opportunity to prove, on a national test, that she was competent at communicating.

This is the Honorable Commissioner’s ruling https://ahc.mo.gov/ahc_docs/Snodgrass.13-2075HA.KAW.pdf

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