Re: Going into medicine
From: Charlie Chambers (cchamber@gorge.net)
Fri Jan 28 12:20:45 2005
In addition, I know that even some fairly prestigious academic programs
that in year's past had their pick of candidates are having to scramble
to fill slots with candidates that previously, they would have never
considered.
On Jan 28, 2005, at 10:42 AM, "" <dean@thehuffpeople.net> wrote:
> .
>
> I think the match rate for OB/GYN last year was about 65-70%. Wonder
> what it
> will be this coming March?
>
> Dean Huffman
>
> - - - -
>
> Quoting "D. Ashley Hill" <dahmd@cfl.rr.com>: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:07:53
> -0600
>
>> I'm not surprised. I have not met a medical student in the past 3
>> years
>> who has chosen ob/gyn. When I ask why not, they all tell me "too many
>> hours, too much stress, not enough sleep, too many chances for things
>> to
>> go wrong during delivery, and too many lawsuits."
>>
>> Ashley
>>
>> At Fri, 28 Jan 2005, art fougner, md wrote:
>>>
>>> FInally, this little gem -
>>>
>>> of the 128 graduates of U of Maryland Medical School in 2003, NONE
>>> chose
>>> to pursue a career in Obstetrics.
>>>
>>> art
>>>
>>> At Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Following our comments about crazy to go into medicine these days,
>>>> I am
>>>> wondering what you'd say in teh following instance.
>>>>
>>>> I am sure we all get these questions. What is your response when a
>>>> patient says "my daughter / son wants to go into medicine ... can
>>>> he /
>>>> she come talk with you?"
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Joanne Bulley, MD
>>>> Keene, NH, USA
>>>>
>>>> "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
>>>> deserve neither liberty nor security." -- Benjamin Franklin
>>>>
>>> --
>>> art fougner, md
>>>
>>> "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere
>>> else."
>>> Lawrence Peter Berra
>>>
>>
>> --
>> D. Ashley Hill, MD
>> Associate Director
>> Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
>> Florida Hospital Family Practice Residency
>> and Loch Haven Ob/Gyn Group
>> Orlando, Florida
>>
>
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Charlie Chambers
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Hood River, OR USA
cchamber@alumni.rice.edu
"All good things...come by grace,
and grace comes by art,
and art does not come easy."
Norman Maclean
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