The horrible tragedies our nation endured at a high school in Columbine, a grocery store in Arizona, movie theater in Colorado, Sikh temple in Wisconsin, mall in Portland, and most recently an elementary school in Connecticut (not to mention countless other venues) have not only left the masses mourning for…
Walk through the hospital and I guarantee you’ll see a medical student, resident, attending, or other healthcare provider utilizing some sort of tablet device. In some venues, iPads and Android tablets have become as commonplace as the traditional clipboard. The question – do these devices actually service a purpose at…
It’s probably the last NBA fantasy season for my classmates, and out of the twelve of us, guess who was the lucky one to pick last? Yours truly, of course. Here’s my lineup for the 2012-2013 season:
A year ago, I wrote the following on my 24th birthday:
I was talking with the genetics intern on my inpatient pediatrics team about random things in evolutionary medicine, and come to find out, every autosomal recessive condition has a heterozygous advantage… and they usually make a lot of sense.
I received an inquiry yesterday questioning the very notion of entering medicine. Hey Rishi,I’m heading into my second year of college as a computer science major. I was perusing through your blog, and was inspired to apply to medical school. I’ve always had an interest, but some random articles on…
Friday afternoon I had the privilege of interacting with prospective Rice-Baylor program candidates and their parents. One of the topics that came up was the single most important consideration in picking a medical school. US News & World Report Rankings, match lists, and class statistics (GPA/MCAT scores) are commonly cited as…
This has been an awfully cold and wet weekend, but fortunately Santa provided me with an NBA season starting this afternoon. :-) Throw in a bunch of hours spent playing Counter-Strike Source, browsing Android-related forums, submitting code snippets… and its been yet another uneventful break. In all honesty, I’d much…
Nothing eventful at all this birthday – another long but rewarding day at Texas Children’s Hospital. Scrubbed into a five hour total colectomy followed up by an open gastrostomy. Straightforward cases… but I’ve never felt so tired from just standing in one place.