Three Questions To Ask Your Doctor
I wrote about this on another post, but to make the information more accessible in my archives, I’ve decided to repost three questions you should always ask your doctor.
Tag: medical
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Role of Death in Training Doctors
According to a Kashmiri proverb, “until a physician has killed one or two he is not a physician.” At first, it seems kind of harsh to consider the aforementioned statement as even remote truth, but if you think about it, most professions can abide by something similar.
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Baylor College of Medicine – Rice University Merger Update
I just received an e-mail containing a letter from Dr. Greenberg and Dr. Eddins-Folensbee from Baylor College of Medicine regarding the merger with Rice University. Though it doesn’t shed much light on the details, it’s good to know that progress is being made.
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TCOM – Offering the M.D. Degree
There’s been some commotion over the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) offering a medical doctor (M.D.) degree option for its students.
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Choosing Between Scholarships and Venues
One of my pre-med friends from Houston is faced with a rather unique dilemma involving two schools. He wants to know whether he should matriculate to the University of Louisville or the University of Texas at Houston for medical school. Here’s an excerpt of the message he sent me containing…
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Epocrates RX Mobile Phone Medical Software
Whether you have a Windows Mobile Smartphone, an iPhone, a Blackberry, or a Palm-based device, there’s a version of Epocrates RX available for your mobile phone. The creators of Epocrates RX describe it as a “free comprehensive handheld drug guide”, so naturally, it’ll be of great use to those in…
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Connections In Higher Places
When students are applying to graduate school, is it fair for some of them to already have connections to schools through family members, friends, etc. when the other applicants have to start from square one?
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Smallpox Vaccine Treating H5N1 Bird Flu
Scientists are currently creating a new “vaccine” of sorts against the H5N1 (“bird flu”) strain of Influenza A. We’re all familiar with how contagious the flu virus is, and we’ve been lucky that the H5N1 strain isn’t passed from human to human… yet. More than half the reported cases of…
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Caffeine and Cancer
Ever think that a cup of joe was more than the habitual pick-me-up you needed every morning? A study has shown that caffeine actually causes more skin cells damaged by ultraviolet radiation, a major causative agent in non-melanoma skin cancer, to enter their programmed cell death cycle (apoptosis).
