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The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver EXCELLENT - one of my favorites of all time. A story told by the five perspectives of mother and four daughters on a missionary trip to Africa in 1959, during the Independence of the Congo. Amazing commentary on so many things - family, race, love...

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes - by Freud, not one of my favorite folks, but I think he had it right: "When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a...

Hey avgjoe - I was just at Pitt...some brief thoughts: Name of the program: Pittsburgh Interviews: WAY more than any other program! Basically 5 on Friday (Chair, PD, 2 lab residents together, a first year out of residency guy who's big into education, the new education guru). The Friday...

How in the WORLD are you interviewing at 24?? :eek: I think I'll be ready to rip my hair out after a half dozen!

Cincinnati is one of those programs. My advice is to find out if any of the programs you're applying to require step 2 scores for their rank list BEFORE you hit the button on ERAS that will automatically release all your board scores to all the programs - once you hit that button, there's no...

So, randomly checked the website for Cincinnati today and saw that they require step 2 scores to be submitted by Jan 1 for your application to be considered :eek: Oops, wasn't planning on taking them until after the new year, guess my plans changed quickly! If y'all find out any other quirks...

Funny how I don't get on the forums unless something stressful is happening - med school applications, USMLE, residency applications... :laugh: I also hit the "submit" button last Friday, amazing how tough it can be to do such a simple thing, right? Relinquishing control is not one of my...

The Monument Street lot is pretty inconvienent, I think most folks who live in Reed just pay the extra $100 for parking in the garage since it's SO cheap to live in Reed. Less than $500 total for housing with parking is AMAZING, and you'll probably find that shuttling out to Monument Street...

I'm right there with you, tg...also taking it tomorrow and shocked at how much is still not in my brain :) I'm counting on the fact that much of the test will be answer recognition and not regurgitation, I can't come up with the answer on my own but I've read it enough times that hopefully I...

I don't know if Elizabeth used this, but the City Paper is probably the best place to look for apartment ads. It's the free alternative weekly paper in Baltimore and it has a very extensive classified section with good apartments :) http://citypaper.com/ I also am pretty sure that my...

Hey bb, that's fabulous...we need more of us, Baltimore is a GREAT city, I love it here and am happy for all y'all who will be coming in the Fall. I know it's not fun to wait, but if you haven't heard anything and still want to come here, don't give up hope...one person in my class (2006) got...

I think everyone starts out thinking they'll fail because it seems like such a huge task! It really does start to break itself down into nice, managable chunks for you once you start. Everyone I know, including myself, thought seriously about pushing the test date back during the first week of...

Wierd - so I'm taking it on Monday, and all of the sudden this afternoon I started getting prematurely excited about being DONE! I know there's still two days between now and the end of this bad boy, and I should still cram a few bits of info into my brain, but how exciting to be finished with...

The strep pneumo comes from the lobar consolidation. Klebsiella is a bronchopneumonia pattern of patchy distribution. But, you're right on the alcoholic = klebsiella thing! Just that alcoholics can get strep pneumo, too, and if it's lobar it's likely strep pneumo :)

So there's a question on Qbank that I just found about myasthenia gravis. I know Myasthenia is caused by an antibody to ACh receptors, and the question asks which of the diseases it resembles pathophysiologically: bullous pemphigoid, DM type 1, Idiopathic Addison's dz, Insulin resistance, SLE...