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designed and hand screened by artist Andrew Kuo for Panda Bear US shows in june."Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"Hey Panda Bear,congrats on winning pitchfork's top 50 albums of '07.Violet Violet, Mr Oizo, Tour Diary: Good Shoes, Music That Time Forgot: Dixieland Jazz, Don't Fear The Mainstream: Britney 2007, Personal Geography: Lupe Fiasco, Blixa Bargeld.Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!Someone likes good music!Abstract Science's Best of 2007to see everyone else who made it, Check out our latest Blog on here.THANKS FOR THE ADDBROS IS PERFECT PERFECT!!!!Hey man, maybe you're interested: for many Italian zines your album has been designated the best of 2007!Thanks for the add and happy new year!PERSON PITCH for my friend ( who smokes a LOT of weed) on New Year's Eve.He said it "sounds like serious drug music"."Urgent Security Alert","Warning: You are submitting information to an outside site.This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.This is not a MySpace login page, please do not enter your MySpace login information (email address or password).Panda Bear is the alias used by experimental musician Noah Lennox of Animal Collective, Jane and Together.He chose the name Panda Bear because he drew a picture of a panda on one of the first recordings he made.He and Avey Tare are the only members who have contributed to every Animal Collective release.He briefly attended Boston University.With Animal Collective
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Panda Bear (1998, Soccer Star)
Young Prayer (September 28, 2004, Paw Tracks)
Person Pitch (March 20, 2007, Paw Tracks) Recently named the 2007 Album of the Year by Pitchfork Media, Tiny Mix Tapes and Fact Magazine.This page was last modified 17:05, 2 January 2008.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."Panda Bear" redirects here.For the musician of the same name, see Panda Bear (musician).It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body.Pandas may eat other foods such as honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges and bananas.China has 239 giant pandas in captivity by Nov 2007, 128 of them in Wolong and 67 in Chengdu, with 27 pandas living outside the country.World Conservation Union (IUCN) believes there is not enough certainty to remove pandas from the endangered animal list.While the Chinese dragon has been historically a national emblem for China, since the latter half of the 20th century the Giant Panda has also become a national emblem for China.Its image appears on a large number of modern Chinese commemorative silver, gold, and platinum coins.Giant Panda cub, weight approximately 150g.Males can weigh up to 115 kg (253 pounds).Stephen Jay Gould wrote an essay about this, then used the title The Panda's Thumb for a book of essays concerned with evolution, punctuated equilibrium, intelligent design, the Piltdown Man hoax, Down's Syndrome, and the relationship between dinosaurs and birds among others.Recent studies paint a different picture, in which small groups of pandas share a large territory and sometimes meet outside the breeding season.Like most subtropical mammals, but unlike most bears, the giant panda does not hibernate.Despite its taxonomic classification as a carnivore, the panda has a diet that is primarily herbivorous, which consists almost exclusively of bamboo.However, pandas still have the digestive system of a carnivore and do not have the ability to digest cellulose efficiently, and thus derive little energy and little protein from consumption of bamboo.Because pandas consume a diet low in nutrition, it is important that they keep their digestive tract full.Furthermore, the timber profit gained from harvesting bamboo has destroyed a significant portion of the food supply for the wild panda.Because of all these elements the population of wild pandas decreased by 50 percent from 1973 to 1984 in six areas of China.Because of the synchronous flowering, death, and regeneration of all bamboo within a species, pandas must have at least two different species available in their range to avoid starvation.Large molars crush and grind fibrous plant material.While primarily herbivorous, the panda still retains decidedly ursine teeth, and will eat meat, fish, and eggs when available.Classification
For many decades the precise taxonomic classification of the panda was under debate as both the giant panda and the distantly related red panda share characteristics of both bears and raccoons.Disagreement still remains about whether or not the red panda belongs in Ursidae, the raccoon family Procyonidae, or in its own family, Ailuridae.The giant panda has been referred to as a living fossil.They both live in the same habitat, they both live on a similar bamboo diet and they both share a unique enlarged bone called the pseudo thumb, which allows them to grip the bamboo shoots they eat.Two subspecies of giant panda have been recognized on the basis of distinct cranial measurements, color patterns, and population genetics (Wan et al.These animals are principally found in Sichuan and display the typical stark black and white contrasting colors.Uses and human interaction
Unlike many other animals in ancient China, pandas were rarely thought to have medical uses.In the past, pandas were thought to be rare and noble creatures; the mother of Emperor Wen of Han was buried with a panda skull in her vault.The first westerner known to have seen a living giant panda is the German zoologist Hugo Weigold, who purchased a cub in 1916.Field Museum of Natural History in the 1920s.Loans of giant pandas to American and Japanese zoos formed an important part of the diplomacy of the People's Republic of China in the 1970s as it marked some of the first cultural exchanges between the PRC and the West.This practice has been termed "Panda Diplomacy".By the year 1984, however, pandas were no longer used as agents of diplomacy.Fish and Wildlife Service only allows a U.China will channel more than half of its loan fee into conservation efforts for wild pandas and their habitat.In May 2005, the People's Republic of China offered Taiwan (Republic of China) two pandas as a gift.Conservation
Giant pandas are an endangered species, threatened by continued habitat loss and by a very low birthrate, both in the wild and in captivity.The population boom in China after 1949 created stress on the pandas' habitat, and the subsequent famines led to the increased hunting of wildlife, including pandas.During the Cultural Revolution, all studies and conservation activities on the pandas were stopped.After the Chinese economic reform, demands for panda skins from Hong Kong and Japan led to illegal poaching for the black market, acts generally ignored by the local officials at the time.Many believed that the best way to save the pandas was to cage them.As a result, pandas were caged at any sign of decline, and suffered from terrible conditions.In the 1990s, however, several laws (including gun controls and the removal of resident humans from the reserves) helped the chances of survival for pandas.With these renewed efforts and improved conservation methods, wild pandas have started to increase in numbers in some areas, even though they still are classified as a rare species.In 2006, scientists reported that the number of pandas living in the wild may have been underestimated at about 1,000.Previous population surveys had used conventional methods to estimate the size of the wild panda population, but using a new method that analyzes DNA from panda droppings, scientists believe that the wild panda population may be as large as 3,000.Although the species is still endangered, it is thought that the conservation efforts are working.The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, located in the southwest Sichuan province and covering 7 natural reserves, were inscribed onto the World Heritage List in 2006.Growth is slow and pandas may not reach sexual maturity until five to seven years of age.The whole gestation period ranges from 83 to 163 days, with 135 days being the average.Baby pandas weigh only 90 to 130 grams (3.Usually, the female panda gives birth to one or two panda cubs.She usually abandons one of her cubs, and it dies soon after birth.The father has no part in helping raise the cub.It nurses from its mother's breast 6 to 14 times a day for up to 30 minutes at a time.For three to four hours, the mother may leave the den to feed, which leaves the panda cub defenseless.The interval between births in the wild is generally two years.Breeders and biologists often experience difficulty in inducing captive pandas to mate, threatening their already diminished population.This problem may stem from the captive bears' lack of experience.In some cases, the bears have been sufficiently stimulated from the videos to engage in reproductive activity.It is not likely that the animals actually learn mating behaviors from the video; rather, scientists believe that hearing the associated sounds has a stimulating effect on the bears exposed to it.Name
The name "panda" originates with a Himalayan language, possibly Nepali.As used in the West the name was originally applied to the red panda.Until its relation to the red panda was discovered in 1901, the giant panda was known as Mottled Bear (Ailuropus melanoleucus) or Particolored Bear.These unusual eyes, combined with its ability to effortlessly scale trees, are what inspired the Chinese to call the panda the "bear cat."The last contract, in Memphis, ends in 2013.US National Zoo, Washington, D.Hua Mei, born 1999 in the San Diego Zoo, returned to China 2004.Mei Sheng, born 2003 in the San Diego Zoo, returned to China 2007.Tai Shan, born July 9, 2005 at the National Zoo in Washington.Mei Lan, born September 6, 2006 at Zoo Atlanta.Zhen Zhen, born August 3, 2007 at the San Diego Zoo.Bao Bao, age 27, the oldest male panda living in captivity; he has been in Berlin for 25 years and has never reproduced.The cub was the first to be born in Europe in 25 years.Arrived in Madrid on September 8, 2007.London, Moscow and Paris no longer have pandas.Xiong Bang (M), who just arrived from Japan.Two further pandas named Le Le and Ying Ying are added to Ocean Park on April 26, 2007.Pandas in Japan have double names: a Japanese name and a Chinese name.Ei Mei (M), Mei Mei (F), Rau Hin (F), Ryu Hin and Syu Hin (male twins), and Kou Hin (M).Yu Hin (M) went to China in 2004.In December 2006, twin cubs were born to Ei Mei and Mei Mei.Wolong Nature Reserve in the mountains in Sichuan Province, forty giant pandas and a dedicated team of staff play a crucial role in ensuring the survival of the species.Wei Rongping, to increase the chances of both cubs surviving.In Hong Kong, there is now a Panda Channel on Now Broadband TV for citizens in Hong Kong to watch the four giant pandas in Ocean Park Hong Kong directly through their broadband TV decoders.An Internet live is also available on the Panda Channel Website for people worldwide to watch the giant pandas through four cameras individually.Ling made an appearance in the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.The Panda Lady: Ruth Harkness (Part 1).Retrieved August 4, 2007.Warren, Lynn (July, 2006).Panda porn to cure bedtime blues (June 27, 2002)."Panda gives surprise birth in Austria", AP via Yahoo!References
Bear Specialist Group (1996).IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.Panda Numbers Exceed Expectations.Friends of the National Zoo (2006).Panda Cam: A Nation Watches Tai Shan the Panda Cub Grow.New York: Fireside Books.Pandas Eat Up Much of Zoos' Budgets.University of Chicago Press.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted.What does your job involve?Emergency Medicine training is typically three years but I did an intern year in Family Medicine after which, screaming in fright, I made the switch to Emergency Medicine.Science in Civil Engineering and, unlike most physicians, did not go directly from college to medical school but instead worked as a Structural Engineer (the cool branch of Civil Engineering) for many years.The process of applying to medical school and positioning yourself for acceptance is well described on the Student Doctor Network and to them I refer you to find all the information you could ever need.While the hours are long in residency, we no longer live in the hospital but the name has stuck.AM to 9 PM shift or the 9 PM to 9 AM shift, with seven consecutive days on one or the other.Our schedule is set up so we work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for two weekends in every block but get the other two off.It sounds like a pretty reasonable schedule and it is.Emergency Department) rotating on other specialties such as Trauma Surgery, Internal Medicine, Critical Care, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics to name a few.During second and third year we spend most of our time in the Department with a few months reserved for electives.Considering that you may have call every fourth night for most of intern year and you cannot just go home in the morning afterwards but usually stay until one in the afternoon, you can imagine that intern year can wear you down.You have to discipline yourself to sleep during the day or else the temptation to carry on as if nothing has happened can lead to a big sleep deficit which manifests as the subjective feeling of always being tired and falling asleep whenever you sit down.Likewise if you are on a day off.On the other hand conference sometimes runs concurrently with a shift and since conference is mandatory, you are excused.Emergency Physician struggled mightily to keep him from dying long enough for the trauma surgeons to save his life.Some nights you feel like a school nurse treating things that would have kept normal people home and some nights the trauma and serious medical complaints just keep rolling in and the minor complaints stew for hours complaining about the crappy sandwiches and the limited television stations.First, our job is to assess and stabilize injured or severely sick patients until they can receive definitive treatment.Shock, for example, is a common presentation and as it is just brief rest stop on the road to death, a chance for the Grim Reaper to sip his latte and finish his bagel before he gets to you, we treat it aggresively.Critical care (also known as intensive care) is a big part of our job and while most of us enjoy it, it sucks up huge amounts of time and detracts from our second job which is to see as many patients as possible in the shortest amount of time.For a practicing Emergency Physician, this means seeing at least four patients an hour to be considered a guy who pulls his weight.Physician Assistants, Respiratory Therapists, Phlebotomists, Radiology techs, and the like.The very word itself carries with it the image of a great mass of freeloaders, relieved from the responsibility of providing for themselves, deciding to trade the struggle for a possibly higher standard of living for a lower one but one which requires no productive effort on their part.The only equitable thing thing to do then, if you go in for this kind of nonsense, is to give everybody who still feels the psychic pangs of the suffering of their distant ancestors a bunch of freebies, paid for by people whose ancestors may have had nothing to do with the distant crimes and in fact, as is the case of my own Greek ancestors, had their own problems at the time.Social Justice, especially as it is used to justify giving everyone free health care.This sort of society is not sustainable for more than a generation or two as our cousins in Europe are starting to realize and it is certainly going to bankrupt our nation if we continue down the same path.The money comes from somewhere although governments occasionally take leave of their senses and print money with nothing to support it, a short term strategy that fools nobody and leads to inflation and lack of confidence in the currency.The extent to which this money can be secured depends on how many productive citizens can be lured onto the dependency plantation, usually by the proganda of fear and class envy.The more productive citizens are taxed the more economic activity is stifled leading to stagnant economies where there are, in fact, no jobs for many people who would be employed if growth and economic opportunity were encouraged at the expense of stealing from one set of citizens to give to another.Social Justice is a euphemism for welfare, a word that has been so thoroughly demonized that the left has to invent a more pleasant sounding phrase.On the other hand if I insisted that for the collective good, the ability of a citizen to sue his doctor be severely curtailed, the usual suspects will wax sanctimonious about the inability of a free people to allow even the smallest of their rights to be violated at any time, in this case the right win a legal jackpot.Surely some medical lawsuits have merit but under the theory of social justice, for the collective good of the majority who would benefit from cheaper medical care, the minority deserving of malpractice awards would have to suck it up for the greater good.Carrier Battle Group is a better way to spend our national treasure than attempting to guarantee free health care for all.Even the insured have difficulty finding a doctor and waving a magic wand, declaring that the unwashed now have access, and even throwing a bunch of money at the problem is not going to materialize a couple hundred thousand primary care physicians out of nowhere.Nursing home to Emergency Department to Intensive Care Unit.Throwing Money Away
Primary care is dying in this country, largely because the the government which sets both the amount that doctors are reimbursed for their time as well as pattern by which private insurance reimburses, has decided that cognitive skills are less valuable than throwing a lot of procedures at the patient.Thinking is easy, after all.Consider the typical internist or family physician trying to keep the lights on in his practice.The typical elderly patient who needs anything more than a routine physical exam cannot have her problems addressed in a fifteen minute visit, much of which is taken up by compliance and admininistrative tasks.The result of this is that you have three or four doctors doing the work that one could do with all of the lost time and inefficiency that this entails.Additionally, under the theory that to the man with a hammer everything is a nail, when you send a patient to a specialist they are going to use their signature procedures to the full extent allowed by reimbursment and ethics.The Ticking Time Bomb
Having patients followed on a routine basis by a cadre of specialists is not only wasteful but dangerous.The alternative is highly fragmented and slipshod care.And no, it is not enough to expect the patient to keep track of these things.In an ideal world, the only variable would be the compliance of the patient, not the confusion that results from trying to coordinate the care of various specialists.Happy New Year
Another one has come and gone.As always I appreciate all comments even the ones I have to delete.Fully half of all the spam comments I receive promise to link me to naked pictures of her in all kinds of situations.PB)
Hey Panda, who are you going to vote for in the 2008 Presidential election?Seriously though, I have not really been following the campaign.Carrier Battle Group than to enable somebody to get their asthma medications for free rather than having the cost eat into their cigarette money.Useful in its own right as well as being the modern equivalent of a cathedral if you can stretch your mind around that concept.But every now and then I have some doubts, doubts that are probably just the residuum of almost seven years of medical school and residency with nothing to show for it but debt, financial ruin, and the sure knowledge that it is this or nothing.Emergency Medicine resident but I hate being a resident.We are in a cage and only time will tell if the bars are gold or common brass.We also get plenty of respect as physicians, even as residents, so no complaints there.If I had known nine years ago when I first got the idea in my head to go to medical school (and believe me it seemed like a crazy idea at the time) what it was going to be like I would have laughed and forgotten about it in short order.You just have to deal with it.Emergency Departments would be sleepy little affairs where most of the employees spent most of their time sitting on their hands except, of course, when something big came in.But the four or five big traumas we see every shift or the ten or so bona fide medical emergencies that need immediate management will not keep the doors open at the current levels of staffing.Upon this sturdy foundation is our specialty built and it is the demand for Emergency Physicians, doctors who can handle everything from a common cold to a traumatic evisceration, that keeps salaries at their current level.In other words, something about their vague chest pain worried them enough to call the ambulance or drive through the snow to see you.Is there a solution to inefficient paperwork?System) which makes documentation and order writing a lot easier than previously.In other words, despite great technological advances in information technology, there has been no decrease in the amount of paperwork involved in medicine.It all stems from a complete lack of trust at all levels of both medicine and society in general, a lack of trust engendered or at least encouraged by the legal profession against which most paperwork is directed.The hospital takes the opposite approach and, to minimize their liability, structure their paperwork to identify the one guy who can take the fall for everybody.The two things that have surprised me the most about medicine?Neptune for all the good they can do you.An unusual feature for those of you working your way up the Steps are the interactive cases, nine of them, on the second day of the exam.Definitely do the practice cases provided by the USMLE before taking the real test because the interface, while easy to use, is not intuitive and you need to know how to handle the mechanics of the computer simulation.The first thing is to relax.Some cases seemed (seemed) pretty simple and required simple management with some discharge instruction here and there to stop smoking and lose weight but on one I transferred the patient from the clinic to the Emergency Department to the ICU before my time was up.Sometimes you write your orders and then, with nothing to do, you need to advance the clock to a time when the next lab or study results are available.One of the practice cases, for example, is a guy with Giardia.Naturally this can come as a shock because there may be no feedback.Apparently some of the cases seem simple because they are simple and it is not necessary to admit every upper respiratory tract infection to the ICU.You find yourself doubting if those massive ST elevations in the anterior leads are really pertinent to the answer and if the test is really asking you for some subtle, psychosocial management strategy.Many of the questions are on ethics.Chronic back pain looking for some narcotics.Our program gives us pretty good exposure to both this kind of department as well as the smaller, community type and I prefer the latter which has a mix of minor complaints, major medical complaints, some critical patients, and the occasional trauma.Tintinalli) rolling your eyes and looking at him as if he is worthless scum who will unfortunately soon be polluting the Emergency Medicine pond is not exactly going to encourage him to ask questions in the future.Which may be your plan and I can certainly understand not wanting to answer a lot of questions.For fifty bucks I want you naked, damnit!Sort of feels like groping.He was a rather large fellow and as he was breathing pretty hard it would have obviously involved a major effort on his part to take off his clothes.After a little while, his white count came back fairly elevated.Diabetic keotacidosis can be precipitated by infections as well as quite a few other things so now the presentation was entirely clear and we started him on the appropriate antibiotics before calling his doctor for an admission.Quarter of a Million
This blog is two years old and over the last fourteen months of it (when I started counting) I have had over 250,000 unique visits.Except, that is, for those of you who comment that my articles are too long.Britney Spears but maybe you could read until they cramped, mark the spot, and come back to continue later.This is just not that kind of blog.The mob gets an idea in its head, placed there or at least reinforced by its political leaders, and the thing is obliged to run its course no matter how destructive or ridiculous.The latest idee fixe of the mob is that Health Care is a right and sensing the political winds, even some of the Republican candidates in the impending presidential election, ostensibly from a party that traditionally serves as a check to some of the more destructive initiatives coming from the left, have embraced the notion.College professors, who strive mightily for tenure and the shelter from the world that it provides, perfectly epitomize the desire of many to fall into the comforting bosom of the nanny state.You cannot have it both ways, on one hand opining that health care is expensive but on the other insisting that expensive technology should always trump medical judgement.He stated that he was an avid runner and he looked the part, several orders of magnitude fitter than most of my patients that day who were half his age.His presenting complaint was a vague, intermittant sensation of chest pressure which had started several months before and which he had been ignoring until his equally fit, highly intelligent wife had finally ordered him to come to the Emergency Department.Twenty minutes after I first saw him he developed a mild, constant nagging ache in his chest which was initially relieved by subligual nitroglycerine.At the very least he would have left the hospital after a several week stay so debilitated that a normal life would have been impossible and probably would have continued to have heart attacks and arrythmias until one or the other finally killed him, probably fairly soon.There was no Golden Age of medicine when doctors were more caring and provided effective and economical treatments.You then, who complain about the cost of medical care should look to yourselves and your own families.Whether this is a good or a bad use of resources is the subject for another debate.The amount of money required to keep your aged gandmother alive at the twiglight of her life far exceeds any health insurance premiums, either to private insurance of Medicare, that she has paid in her life.They are usually found to be septic from one source or another and are often admitted to the ICU for a week or two of highly expensive critical care to stabilize them enough so they may be returned to their warehouse until the next time.This little drama is repeated many times until finally we reach the limit of our ability to cheat the reaper and the patient finally dies in the ICU, usually after one more round of expensive interventions demanded by the family who want no expense spared in the effort to squeeze out one more week of life for the patient..For perspective, maintaining an ICU bed costs a hospital several thousand dollars per day which someone, somehow, has to pay.ICU, an enterprise that involves many highly trained nurses and the latest equipment, there is no way to realistically decrease the expense of taking care of a critical patient.My European friends, some of them physicians, are amazed at the measures we take to keep patients alive who have absoutely no quality of life and no chance of recovery.Today it is the stilted jargon of the diversity Mafia with which the timid writer protects himself from the one true sin of diversity, that is, to have an original idea.Even the bureacrats who will read your essay must tire of yet another anthem to diversity, improving access, or your efforts to bridge the gaps between different peoples.The fact is that there is nothing new under the sun.Medical school admission is a highly formalized dance not unlike the compulsaries in Olympic pairs skating.Everybody has the same moves and a certain level of technical skill.Look at it this way: did volunteering amongst the great unwashed in any way change your decision to apply to medical school?You were going to apply before you volunteered and nothing you saw or did dissuaded you.It is also not necessary to commit to a life of selfless dedication to the underserved.You are a Terrible Writer
Admit it, love it, embrace it.Sure, I can sometimes bang out a servicable paragraph or two but I have a blog upon which I have been practicing for the last two years.There is no shame in this but you have to realize that you are not up to the task of creating something original and beautiful.Through which sentence would you rather wade?Give the reader some credit.Unlike my blog which no one is obliged to read, to faithfully discharge his duties the medical school admission officer must read your entire personal statement, potentially all 5300 hundred characters of it.You can leave some things out.Once again, give your reader some credit.It would be highly unlikely that something like this could be faked in front of so many highly intelligent television viewers.Number of Power and ceremoniously asks to speak with a priestess whose name is usually Yolanda or Mistress Debbie.Sometimes they throw in the winning lottery numbers.Through years of experimentation, traditional practitioners have developed a wide spectrum of salves and rubs that are pushing the boundaries of our understanding of medicine.For fever, pepper is often added as it is a hot spice.Swiss of the Hellenic world.MC Hammer sold out and is now considered a white man.Finally, I dropped the big one.Who actually thinks like that?Kumbayah, efforts to promote diversity only serve to drive a wedge between people, particularly Americans, who should be striving for a little more conformity.Somebody please tell your Uncle Panda that you kids still know how to do these kinds of things.Must everyone be a tool all the time.How do you expect them to answer that?The Student Doctor Network.Dear Nervous,
I also claimed to speak a foreign language.So Spanish is definitely out.Low Countries and started jabbering at me the minute I walked into his office.You have to think quick and be prepared.Dear Uncle Panda,
In a desperate attempt to make myself more diverse I may have exaggerated some of my extracurricular activities and qualifications.They most certainly do check on your qualifications and extracurricular activities.One day towards the end of first year I got an irate email from the registrar inviting me to explain to the verification committee how I could possibly make this claim.Apparently the North Dakota Sioux in which tribe I may or may not have claimed membership had never heard of me either.Did you call my Uncle John Raging Pony?With no phone which is not really my problem.The registrar insisted that there was no record as far as they could tell of my belonging to any tribe in the United States.We actually spend most of our time in Alberta.Very pained look from the registrar.French so talking to the Canadians was going to be a problem.The medical school admission process is tough.You have to be smart and you have to keep your options open.Glad I could help
Regards,
P.Bear,
What keeps people from making up extracurricular activites?Bear,
Do medical schools really verify all of the crap we list as extracurricular activities in our AMCAS application?Dear Nail Biting,
About six months into fourth year I got called into the Dean of Students office.Call my undergraduate institution and ask them about it.By the time they sorted it out I had graduated.Dean of Students saying that there was no record of my having attended Harvard."Navigating the Medical School Admission Obstacle Course.Nothing Much More to Say About Complementary and Alternative Medicine.Everything You Need to Know About Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Part the Third and Last)
(One last time I state the obvious while continuing to marvel that it needs to be explained although judging from my email and comments it does.All tricks of the Deceiver to lead the faithful astray.Complementary and Alternative Medicine is nothing more than an expensive and highly detailed placebo, the usual accusations are made that the scientific method is indequate to study qi or spiritual fire shooting from the appendages of the healer.In other words, only a homeopath who believes in homeopathy can research homeopathic effects.Catholics, a deeply pious and theologically sophisticated man, and yet he would be the first to deny that he can work the kind of miracles that are the regular activity of oleagenous Pentacostal preachers and their svelte, holistic counterparts in the alternative medicine world.Namely because the whole patient is an order of magnitude more complex than can be handled by what is essentially the entertainment committee.Epocrates as an offical sponser of Panda Bear, MD."Nothing Much More to Say About Complementary and Alternative Medicine.You seem a little less bitter about residency.Conferences always seem to fall on a day off or when I am getting off of long night shift and we do in fact work pretty hard.Medicine is one of the few professions where superior knowledge breeds hostility.That also seems to be the nature of residency.You can have a string of good days where you do everything right and feel like you have a pretty good grasp on things only to have a couple of bad shifts, or even a couple of bad patients, where you so obviously show your ignorance and unsuitability for the medical profession that you dread going in for the next shift.There may be some physicians who have it all figured out to the extent that they always know what to do and never make a mistake but I assure you this is not me and, from discussions with my friends, I am not the only resident who is often humbled by the limits of his knowledge and abilities.Residency training breeds caution, not arrogance.First you have to get the basics in order which are getting good grades and scoring well on the MCAT.Medical school is pretty competitive and only about half of the college students who apply are accepted.So your odds are pretty good (and I call fifty percent good odds) only once you get through all of the obstacles which include classes like calculus and organic chemistry, the de facto destroyers of medical school dreams at most universities.These are both passing grades and nobody ever asked me about my Grade Point Average when I was applying for engineering jobs.And there was certainly no GPA requirment for professional licensing as an engineer.But applying for medical school?One is an automatic rejection at many medical schools, meaning that your application is automatically shunted into the trash, or at least a big strike against you unless you have an awfully interesting resume (which is how I managed to get in with my GPA).The ironic thing is that all you really need to start medical school is the abiity to read and some basic, and I mean basic, biological and scientific knowledge.This time next year both of those people might not be here.Several were dropped back a year but they all eventually graduated.So you see, the big hurdle is getting in, not finishing.It is silly not to have some kind of objective standard of intelligence for people who want to enter what is a highly important, intellectually demanding, and in many ways (as there is a great potential to harm people) a highly dangerous profession.The real hoops are the nebuluous extracurricular activities that are unofficially offically required by almost every medical school to prove your dedication and your, I blush to call it, moral fitness for the job.Zaire to help in a jungle hospital for resume padding.Dark Continent, Central America, or anywhere else where a young medical school applicant may sojourn for a couple of weeks to demonstrate his commitment to global health care.So what does that have to do with practicing medicine in the United States?Research is probably the one thing you can do that will really set you apart from the pack.Nothing wrong with that actually except if I pick up the chart at the end of a shift.Thanksgiving holiday so you can visit from out of town and eat highly salted holiday foods with your relatives.Lady, the only people who get in and out of here in twenty minutes are the ones heading to the cath lab or the morgue.Now, I understand that a visit to the Emergency Department, particularly a busy one that trains residents, can involve many hours of just sitting around waiting.The beds are not comfortable and neither are the chairs for the family.Emergency Department only functions as your Urgent Care Clinic if there is nobody ahead of you who is sicker.Hell, time for me to get around to writing up your discharge.Scalpelorsword
Medical Economics
Medical Student Musings
M.Sign in to get personalized recommendations.Your search did not match any products.If you want to specify which of your search terms should match the author's name and which should match the title, you should conduct an Advanced Search.Visit our Help department.Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.What you think when is okay to kill bears?Ursus melanoleucus or "black white bear".Like bears, giant pandas are basically heavy ponderous land creatures.The panda's odd markings are still something of a mystery.The mating time of the large Pandas falls into the months March until May.It can come also to fights between the males for the mating privilege.Newborn pandas are tiny.Breeders and biologists often experience difficulty in inducing captive pandas to mate.We wish you all a safe and happy holiday season!Medical Center where she served as a Chief Resident her last year.Bear Pediatrics, LLC, a practice based on quality pediatric care.Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.Postal addresses
555 South Second Avenue, Bldg B, Suite 200, Collegeville, PA 19426
1885 Swamp Pike, Hanover Court, Suite 108, Gilbertsville, PA 19525
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