Word: meds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realize that David Lat's April 29th editorial ("Hypocritical Society," Dartboard, Apr. 30) was perhaps just Saturday morning fun, we, writing on behalf of the Hippocratic Society, would like to respond. We agree with his caricature, albeit exaggerated, of the four-color-pen-carrying, grade-grubbing, Cabot-inhabiting pre-med, and we think that this is a perfect reason why we need a Hippocratic Society at Harvard...
Well, a group of courageous premeds is willing to bet that pre-meds can transcend their stress-filled, petty and pedantic existences. Earlier this spring, 10 undergraduates started the Hippocratic Society, a pre-med ethics society...
...med ethics society. Can anyone say "oxymoron"? Now, we at Dartboard will readily admit that premeds don't have a monopoly on unethical behavior. The pre-law and pre-investment banking students are pretty evil too. But at least they're honest about being sleazy. Unlike the pre-meds, they don't try to hide their sliminess and greed behind a veneer of altruism...
...seriousness, the Hippocratic Society may not even be this active. The group is probably not going to have a huge impact on the pre-med community here at Harvard. Perhaps it will meet once, maybe twice...
...even if it does next to nothing, the Society will have served its purpose. Being a co-founder or member of a pre-med ethics society will look great on a resume or an application to medical school...