Sue this. Tort Reform, please.

Yes this article is old, but it still applies. Read and be educated. If only MD's could just all stop practicing as a group, just for one day, so that all those little shitbags with their ear aches and sore tummies, just itching to sue didn't have anywhere else to go when they were REALLY sick. I bet things would change real fast. It could happen. In the near future with this Obamacare and insane malpractice premiums, watch the great doctors you all have just start trickling away to somewhere else. Like Canada. Funny, people think you can't make money there as an MD, but you get paid very similar wages, believe it or not, AND you aren't paying 100k/yr for insurance. Laugh it up.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/cost-of-malpractice-insurance-forcing-doctors-to-leave-high-risk-specialties

Semester One, In The Bag

Alright! Semester One of medical school is over! A long 13 weeks that was, full of more work than I thought I could ever do. It's actually amazing how much we get done here, and how much you actually learn. I learned more in 13 weeks than I did over my entire 4 years of undergraduate studies, and a lot of this first semester was actually undergraduate stuff! Genetics, some of the biochem and even some of the physio. They clearly expanded the subjects and taught you a lot more, but many concepts learned in undergrad were really reinforced at this level. I even figured things out here that I had never understood and only memorized back in university (friggin co-transporters...). So now, 3 midterms, 4 lab practicals and a cumulative final later I am in the caribbean doing whatever I want! My girlfriend is sick of the place already, but I can't understand why... Actually I can. She's been on vacation for 4 months, whereas this is the first time in 4 months that I've been able to enjoy myself at all. Sleeping in till 1pm, staying up late, TV and beach all day... mmmm That's the life!

Please don't make me go back to school...

But really.. This semester has taught me many things, the most important being don't listen to anyone else ever. Go with what YOU think is best, not some schmuck throwing out advice left and right. Sure, maybe it works for that guy, but maybe it doesn't and he's just talking out of his ass. Seriously, some people are out here giving advice and they have yet to get over a C in anything. I always used to be worried about what other people were doing and how they were preparing. I'd get stressed when people asked me questions I didn't know, only to realize that they were asking me about the one small detail they knew, but when it came down to it, I could have taught the damn course at that point.. You do YOU, and forget about the gossip and what other people are doing. They may tell you they have A's all over the place and that they know how to beat the system. Fuck them. They are probably failing out and are trying to cheat their way back into school. Try cheating on the boards.

And yes, this is a gratuitous picture of the girlfriend and dog. No relevance to the post whatsoever.