Recent content by jimdo

point taken!! Still though, Id imagine those at University of Nevada may consider themselves "better" than those at _____ Community hospital. I think there's an element of relativity here.

I wonder if these "Top 5" programs are such because of quality of training or simply reputation. For example, do they genuinely train better or is it that everyone has heard of them and by default they receive the research dollars, funding and acadmenic interest simply due to increased exposure...

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUY 1 or 2 GOOD comprehensive review books and 1 question book. THATS IT!! Anything more is a waste of time and money. Spare yourself the agony and grief.

Hate to bear bad news....but not everyone passes Step III. Was bitching to the proctor after the exam about this horrible test and she told me there were those in the room that had already taken it 3 times and still didnt pass. She seemed to empathize and it was obvious shed heard my...

BTW... anyone wonder why it is so important for us to be in a "Top 5 program?" Is it really that we want to get the "best" training or is it that we want to feel morally and intellectually superior to others while using the training argument as an excuse? is the training at the imagimnary #3...

word of advice... run as far away from medicine as you possibly can. Couldnt imagine ANYTHING is a career more depressing than managing long term social issues and organ systems that have nothing to do with your area of interest. Could you imagine managing COPD for the rest of your career...

Very difficult to do. For me it is the most difficult area of medicine. Its taken a long time for me to realize my true priorities. While medicine is certainly a good and noble profession, in the end it boils down to being a job. Whereas, I have not yet begun a family of my own, when that...

Perhaps many of us seem like "angry men" who are "far angrier than the women" because we have been told repeatedly that we are the cause of the ills of society and that we are to blame for all unfairness that exists in the workplace. We are "male chauvinists" and "anti-woman/anti-family" if we...

I do NOT support anything that doesnt "allow" a woman to breastfeed her child, nor do I support a program that is unsympathetic to the needs of a family. My qualm probably is less apparent than may seem. I simply am opposed to an entitlement mentality and expectation of others to compensate...

Womansurg, You make some good and valid points. I agree with your emphasis on family and share that ideal. I congratulate you on a well thought and expressed set of views. However, my qualm lies when somebody expects me to do something for them simply because of a perceived right...

The prior post was nothing but a tired argument from someone with an obvious feminist agenda. No one is advocating an abortion so that we as men can avoid call. It is equally absurd to suggest that we as men are somehow obligated to fill in for a woman who becomes pregnant. Youre absolutley...

At the risk of sounding rude... the fact of the matter is that it really is not someone else's concern or responsibility for your or my desire/"right" of parenthood or how much work maternity or its leave can be. (No disrespect intended) I do not doubt the difficulty and I tremendously respect...

So in other words, we as males are supposed to pick up your slack because of your perceived "right" to have a child? How arrogant, unfair and rude!! Now, I support having children, I hope to have some myself, but will never be allowed to miss my responsibility at the hospital. What about...

Do you want to be one of those who makes excuses on why not to do something and backs away from challenges? Take both. Best decision I made in medical school!

Corn, Be vewry vewry quiet, its duck huntin' season. I wouldnt venture out if I were you..... QUACK, QUACK!! Get a clue.