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TEN FACTORS TO CONSIDER WHEN CHOOSING A SPECIALTY Last week we talked about the first five factors to consider when choosing a medical specialty. This week, we consider the remaining five factors. 6. LIFESTYLE CONSIDERATIONS Medicine has always been a demanding profession. After working long hours in the hospital or clinic, physicians end up taking…
DetailsLOVE THE GREAT OUTDOORS? WILDERNESS MEDICINE MAY BE RIGHT FOR YOU If you love spending time in the great outdoors — whether in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, or on a tropical island in the Pacific — then wilderness medicine may be right for you. Wilderness medicine is a relatively new fellowship with the first program…
DetailsTEN FACTORS TO CONSIDER WHEN CHOOSING A SPECIALTY The proliferation of specialties (and subspecialties) means that every physician practices a different type of medicine. Even within the same specialty, no two doctors are alike. Faced with all this diversity, how do medical students commit to a single specialty? Many go through a “process of ‘trying…
DetailsPIONEER OF MODERN SURGERY The pioneer of modern surgery, known in the West as “Abulcasis”, Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi was not just a pioneer in surgical innovation; he was also a great teacher whose medical texts had shaped the European surgical procedures up until the Renaissance and later. His most famous piece of work was the…
DetailsMISSING CONTACT LENS FOUND 28-YEARS LATER While playing badminton one spring day in England, a 14-year-old girl discovered the vision in her one eye to be blurry. Later she discovered she had lost one of her contact lenses. She didn’t think much about it until three decades later, doctors found the contact lens embedded in…
DetailsSHERLOCK HOLMES + DR HOUSE = FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST Do you love the idea of being a detective and a doctor? Do you love procedural crime dramas on television where the detectives rely on the data provided by a medical examiner to solve the case? Are you interested in coupling the basic sciences with clinical sciences?…
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