So, the second year of med school was nothing like I expected it to be. If you refer back to a post I made at the beginning of the year, you’ll see that I had high hopes for this year being interesting and thought-provoking. While I will say that, to me, second year [...]
Entries Tagged as 'ethics'
At first I was like…
May 10th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: behavioral sciences · ethics · expectations · genetics · ICM · M2 · micro · microbiology · path · pathology · pharm · pharmacology · shattered expectations
Dax Cowart
September 7th, 2009 4 Comments
In our ethics class recently, we discussed the case of Dax Cowart. His case is well known in the medical community, but I had never heard of him before–for those who aren’t familiar, here’s a quick rundown of his story. In 1973, Dax and his father were surveying some land in rural Texas that Dax [...]
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