[This is the second post in a series on becoming a Christian physician. The series began with Do You Want to Be a Doctor?] "Why do you want to work in healthcare?" "I want to help people." This dialogue is the most common conversation people will have about a career in medicine. The way we think about healthcare professionals tends towards the poignant and provocative: heroic paramedics and EMTs in ambulances, austere physicians and pharmacists and lab researchers in crisp white coats, dutiful and deeply … [Read more...] about Helping People Is Not Enough
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Do You Want to Be a Doctor?
"I want to be a doctor. How do I do it?" As a teenager, I was very shy and very awkward. Talking to strangers was a painful and anxiety-laden task, and I didn't like to talk to strangers any longer than necessary. So when a pediatrician asked me, at a routine office visit, if I had any questions, I surprised myself by blurting out, "I want to be a doctor. How do I do it?" I had never seen the same pediatrician twice, mainly because most of them were residents-in-training. This one was caught off-guard by the … [Read more...] about Do You Want to Be a Doctor?
Match Day: On Call
Today is Match Day. Today, thousands of medical students across the USA will be given a sealed envelope containing a description of where they will be going for residency. At noon, in every medical school, they will gather to simultaneously open those envelopes. These students have spent months applying and interviewing for various programs. Many will have spent hundreds of dollars and hours on applications, interview suits, travel expenses, and retail therapy in the pursuit of a place to give them the training … [Read more...] about Match Day: On Call
Selection Bias: Statistical Integrity in Christian Community
One day a num ber of con cerned moth ers met with the min is ter to express their frus tra tion and anger over the unseemly con duct of a par tic u lar boy in Sun day School. They did not want their chil dren exposed to this child and feared what he rep re sented. For it seemed that this boy was mod el ing “bad behav ior” – ver bal out bursts that some times involved pro fan ity, a lack of sen si tiv ity to other children's per sonal space (occa sion ally bit ing them when irri tated or … [Read more...] about Selection Bias: Statistical Integrity in Christian Community