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...pursuing careers in medicine, regardless of those students’ means or background. The decision to expand aid was largely motivated by hopes that reducing indebtedness might lessen the burden on recent graduates to select “more lucrative specialties”—such as plastic surgery??after graduation. The medical school sees higher debts as the impetus behind a trend that has seen a decrease in the proportion of the school’s graduates who enter primary care. This number has declined from 57 percent in 1999 to 44 percent this year...
Katherine K. Merseth, director of teacher programs, said that teaching—like other rigorous professions such as surgery??requires substantial training...
...says. “We are living at a time where people feel like they have to put their best face forward.” One part of that culture—the push for physical perfection through artificial means such as tanning and plastic surgery??is, Pollitt says, a waste of time. “You might as well be smoking and getting some pleasure out of it,” she says. For Pollitt, the movement towards physical perfection is connected to our current capitalist moment. “The pressure to be 24/7...
...time here, Jones has built a skills lab and simulation lab for students to practice minimally invasive surgery??something not available at any other HMS teaching hospital...
...third time this year Copple had sustained the injury, first this spring and then again during the Shrine Bowl—an All-Star game for graduating Nebraska seniors, on July 24. Nor is he a stranger to the surgery??he has had the same procedure performed on his right shoulder. He had hoped treatment could be postponed until after his first semester at Harvard...