Defending the Med School?
Have aliens stolen my brain? So here's the email I just sent my friends, and after it, the letter I'll be sending to the editor at semper:
There's a semper article saying we're all whores sleeping with the pharmaceutical industry (actually it doesn't say that at all, but it's a big article and I feel like that's the gist). It also said we don't get lectures about the right way to be whores (I must point out right here and now that the word whores was never actually used in the article but it did say we were in bed with them and where I come from....). Now I don't know if you've noticed but I'm the queen of procrastination, so I have fashioned a reply (DEAR GOD I'M DEFENDING THE ETHICS COMPONENT OF THE COURSE - in my own special way). Just wanted to run it past you guys. It'll be a "letter to the editor" so it can't be too long... wondered if I should see if Mal wanted to write them a letter too:) He's probably not procrastinating over exams though. By the way my basic argument is that all students are whores, not just us (and once again, I never actually use the word whore).
LETTER:
Re: Med Students and Drug Companies: The Great Courtship
It’s nothing personal but your whole article is flawed, however I only have 10 minutes of procrastination time available so I can’t go over everything. You say we don’t get any lectures dealing with these issues. Now I’ve missed a few lectures but even so, I’ve been exposed to lectures on this topic. Lectures and resources entitled things like "The commercialisation of medicine", "Ethical guidelines in the relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry", "healthy scepticism", and their have even been exam questions on the topic.
You should be congratulating us, not criticising. Every poor university student knows that it is their absolute duty to get as much free stuff (including meals and pens) as possible – it’s called milking the system. Don’t be jealous because we’re so good at it – see us as leaders – follow. Also you seemed to disbelieve our ability to tune them out – I can assure you 7 years of lectures and I’m the queen of tuning people out (which recently has been wreaking havoc in every single type of relationship I have). Unfortunately time and space stop me from having an argument with you my lectures would approve of (using ethics buzz words like autonomy, informed consent etc), but hopefully you’ll still get the message – do more research.
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Seriously, I hate the med school - why am I defending them? They've done nothing except screw us over for the past four years (oh and sort of teach us how to be doctors - to be fair they've tried to do that)! Talking of which I asked my sister who is a scientist who works in haematology looking at blood films all day to look at some blood films from past papers and answer their questions... She said there was no way you could tell the kind of things they were asking for from those blood films... great what chance do we have!!!!!
There's a semper article saying we're all whores sleeping with the pharmaceutical industry (actually it doesn't say that at all, but it's a big article and I feel like that's the gist). It also said we don't get lectures about the right way to be whores (I must point out right here and now that the word whores was never actually used in the article but it did say we were in bed with them and where I come from....). Now I don't know if you've noticed but I'm the queen of procrastination, so I have fashioned a reply (DEAR GOD I'M DEFENDING THE ETHICS COMPONENT OF THE COURSE - in my own special way). Just wanted to run it past you guys. It'll be a "letter to the editor" so it can't be too long... wondered if I should see if Mal wanted to write them a letter too:) He's probably not procrastinating over exams though. By the way my basic argument is that all students are whores, not just us (and once again, I never actually use the word whore).
LETTER:
Re: Med Students and Drug Companies: The Great Courtship
It’s nothing personal but your whole article is flawed, however I only have 10 minutes of procrastination time available so I can’t go over everything. You say we don’t get any lectures dealing with these issues. Now I’ve missed a few lectures but even so, I’ve been exposed to lectures on this topic. Lectures and resources entitled things like "The commercialisation of medicine", "Ethical guidelines in the relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry", "healthy scepticism", and their have even been exam questions on the topic.
You should be congratulating us, not criticising. Every poor university student knows that it is their absolute duty to get as much free stuff (including meals and pens) as possible – it’s called milking the system. Don’t be jealous because we’re so good at it – see us as leaders – follow. Also you seemed to disbelieve our ability to tune them out – I can assure you 7 years of lectures and I’m the queen of tuning people out (which recently has been wreaking havoc in every single type of relationship I have). Unfortunately time and space stop me from having an argument with you my lectures would approve of (using ethics buzz words like autonomy, informed consent etc), but hopefully you’ll still get the message – do more research.
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Seriously, I hate the med school - why am I defending them? They've done nothing except screw us over for the past four years (oh and sort of teach us how to be doctors - to be fair they've tried to do that)! Talking of which I asked my sister who is a scientist who works in haematology looking at blood films all day to look at some blood films from past papers and answer their questions... She said there was no way you could tell the kind of things they were asking for from those blood films... great what chance do we have!!!!!
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