Word: meds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Project HEALTH's growth is not an isolated event. Student interest in health-related issues outside of the traditional pre-med track has led to a groundswell of academic and extracurricular interest...
Last year, during a review session for Chem 7, four first-years tossed around the idea of studying medicine outside of the pre-med track. The students--Clay Ackerly '01, Noelle S. Sherber '01, Suise Besu '01 and Jamil K. Shamasdin '01--were all intrigued by health care issues and felt that courses like organic chemistry and physics missed the point...
...think as a pre-med it is somewhat narrow to be a health policy concentrator," says Audiey C. Kao, research director of the Institute of Ethics of the American Medical Association in Chicago...
Needing a break from school, Duleep, a pre-med psychology concentrator, took a semester off in the spring of her sophomore year and returned home to Norwalk, Conn. to work in a doctor's office and with a physician's assistant at local Norwalk Hospital. It was there that she found herself constantly bumping into a "gorgeous" radiologic technologist, Kevin Hill...
...your article about patients and doctors exchanging e-mail is true [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR HEALTH, Aug. 17], and people really believe communication has opened up, then I guess everything we physicians were taught in med school about interpreting nonverbal cues and other interactive signals during an examination was useless. You suggested limiting e-mail to "routine inquiries" such as requests for referral. This would indicate that a particularly complicated medical problem has arisen, demanding a thorough clinical investigation by a person's present doctor. Motives of both patients and physicians willing to carry out such a complex interaction...