Comments for Scepticemia http://scepticemia.com Musings of a Skeptic Oslerphile Mon, 06 May 2013 00:27:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The USA Dream for IMGs: Coming to an end? Analysing the 2012 Match by Ahmad Chugtai http://scepticemia.com/2013/01/08/the-usa-dream-for-imgs-coming-to-an-end-analysing-the-2012-match/#comment-3905 Mon, 06 May 2013 00:27:48 +0000 https://scepticemia.wordpress.com/?p=2946#comment-3905 I graduated from King Edward Medical University, which is considered the best in Punjab (Pakistani Punjab). Believe me getting in is NOT easy. After my house job, I was offered a job at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology. I left all that to come to US but could not match. With the exponential increase in the number of IMGs, the rapid rise in the number of MD and DO seats in the US, it is getting next to impossible. I spent close to US $18000, wasted 2 years but to no good. I am returning this year and am sure will be ridiculed by my relatives who will simply blame me for not being ‘intelligent’ enough to make it into US. But the saddest truth? Try telling all this to a medical student in Pakistan and he/she will paint you as a complete moron!
I know I thought my seniors were not good enough when they returned after 3-4 years to start a house job. I love this profession and do not regret choosing medicine but the expectations from relatives (in my case) is simply devastating!
I will return only to face shame. I lost the job offer. I lost money. I lost time. My fiance of 5 years almost left me and it was very hard convincing her to stay. Sad! Sad! Sad! :-(

]]> Comment on The USA Dream for IMGs: Coming to an end? Analysing the 2012 Match by Marie http://scepticemia.com/2013/01/08/the-usa-dream-for-imgs-coming-to-an-end-analysing-the-2012-match/#comment-3901 Sun, 05 May 2013 18:09:04 +0000 https://scepticemia.wordpress.com/?p=2946#comment-3901 As am IMG graduate of St. Matthews and US citizen who cannot get into any residency anywhere, thank you for writing this article. I am $250,000 in debt with no chance ever of being able to pay that off. My life is financially over before it ever begun. If you are reading this and think you’ll be able to land a residency after attending one of these schools, you are delusional. Stop now, get out, do something else.

]]> Comment on The Family Physician: A Dying Romantic Idea by Pranab http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/23/the-family-physician-a-dying-romantic-idea/#comment-3883 Fri, 03 May 2013 02:40:37 +0000 https://scepticemia.wordpress.com/?p=3018#comment-3883 You seem to be an exception to the rule. But yes, I’ve mentioned that conglomerated GP may work. The romance of being a 5$ doctor is dead. Also, most budding physicians do not want to go into Family Medicine per se. The fascination lies with the super specialties.

]]> Comment on The Family Physician: A Dying Romantic Idea by Uberschizo (@Uberschizo) http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/23/the-family-physician-a-dying-romantic-idea/#comment-3873 Thu, 02 May 2013 14:54:48 +0000 https://scepticemia.wordpress.com/?p=3018#comment-3873 SO, I am a GP, working with a company that’s bringing back the family doctor. You could check out NationWide Primary healthcare.
Ethical, evidenced based and not giving a hoot about how the rest of the industry does it. we also spend 3 hours every week, in a structured learning program

not dead, not by far

]]> Comment on New York Soda Rule: Raising the Debate on Paternalism in Public Health by moving http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/18/new-york-soda-rule-raising-the-debate-on-paternalism-in-public-health/#comment-3819 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:57:41 +0000 https://scepticemia.wordpress.com/?p=2995#comment-3819 I found your blog on google and test a few of your early posts. Your blog is just great.

]]> Comment on The Family Physician: A Dying Romantic Idea by Soumyadeep B http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/23/the-family-physician-a-dying-romantic-idea/#comment-3804 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:16:33 +0000 https://scepticemia.wordpress.com/?p=3018#comment-3804 I did be honoured of you reblog some of mine:)

]]> Comment on Penile Cancer: Another Reason to Stop Banging Animals: (Insert Zoophilia Joke) by Vikram http://scepticemia.com/2011/11/16/penile-cancer-another-reason-to-stop-banging-animals-insert-zoophilia-joke/#comment-3766 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:46:04 +0000 https://scepticemia.wordpress.com/?p=2038#comment-3766 Very nice criticism pranab… Even if it was 4.5% and 3.2%, it appears to be an overestimate, but 45% and 32% are unbelievable, that too for a representative sample, not some isolated tribal group or nomads, …

]]> Comment on The Family Physician: A Dying Romantic Idea by Pranab http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/23/the-family-physician-a-dying-romantic-idea/#comment-3764 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:34:07 +0000 https://scepticemia.wordpress.com/?p=3018#comment-3764 What?

]]> Comment on The Family Physician: A Dying Romantic Idea by Soumyadeep B http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/23/the-family-physician-a-dying-romantic-idea/#comment-3755 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:10:25 +0000 https://scepticemia.wordpress.com/?p=3018#comment-3755 i did be honoured to be reblogged by you :)

]]> Comment on New York Soda Rule: Raising the Debate on Paternalism in Public Health by Anti-Bloomberg Bill in the Soda Wars: Two Wrongs do not Make a Right! | Scepticemia http://scepticemia.com/2013/04/18/new-york-soda-rule-raising-the-debate-on-paternalism-in-public-health/#comment-3754 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:22:34 +0000 https://scepticemia.wordpress.com/?p=2995#comment-3754 [...] my last post on this Soda Wars issue, I expressed the fact that I was confused whether curbing some certainly-alienable individual [...]

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