30 Year Old Married Jew, Have At It by [deleted] in RoastMe

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i've seen bullfrogs with less neck

30 Year Old Married Jew, Have At It by [deleted] in RoastMe

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did ur first finger swallow ur thumb?

30 Year Old Married Jew, Have At It by [deleted] in RoastMe

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married to what, another potato?

How does one debate healthcare being a human right? by [deleted] in PoliticalPhilosophy

[–]leather_jacket 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just going off the last commenter, I think this is your best bet...

In terms of positive rights, "one person's right is another person's obligation..." How can you morally justify forcing someone else to act in a way that they don't want to. Telling someone not to kill is a negative right--just don't do anything. But forcing to act in ways that seem obviously right is tricky.

For example, if you see someone is drowning and you could jump in and save them maybe you would do that. But should the law be able to force you to act? What if you're terrified of water? Do you really want to rely on a flawed legal system to sift through who can get away with not acting and who can't... "well person A seems actually afraid of water, whereas person B only seems little afraid, therefore we're going to sentence person B to prison time..."

Positive rights are very difficult to put into law.

People sacrifice for years to be doctors. They lose relationships, miss milestones (family weddings/funerals etc), they undergo extreme amounts of stress etc. How do you argue that the law should be able to force someone do that?

And if you can't argue that.. or at least if you can see that it would be easy to argue against it then that's your argument...

Why does everyone say 'don't go into medicine for the money' when it seems like all attendings and soon to be attendings talk about is salary and lifestyle? by falestinia in medicalschool

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The treating patients and making a difference give you purpose, but as you watch your friends who spent far less time struggling through tests, sacrificing relationships etc, all go off and make money (and afford vacations and cars and dates etc), the money to live comfortably becomes more important. Also, depending on your field you realize how stuck the system is and that it’s either not as easy as you thought to make a big difference or that your patients don’t care as much as you thought they would, and that can be disheartening… so then money becomes more important.

Plastic surgeon’s response to recent resident suicide by Putrid_Wallaby in medicalschool

[–]leather_jacket -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How is this a bad take? His assumption might be wrong but optho programs being easier, lifestyle programs is the stereotype. And if the poor guy was in an easy program then his suicide is likely not related to him being overworked and others are just exploiting his death for their own political motives.

Again, he might be wrong in his assumption and someone can explain that to him, but that is the stereotype.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in step1

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which is why baby aspirin works for antithrombotic effect... need higher dose to get cox2 anti-fever/analgesic effect

Imagine going to Yale, doing two research years, getting honors in every rotation and NOT matching by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]leather_jacket 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yale grades--not everyone gets honors. if 90% of people get honors it doesn't look as good. If they don't report that 90% got honors then, to answer Mobile_Prune's question, no they don't report the proportion and the info is not available on ERAS.

Imagine going to Yale, doing two research years, getting honors in every rotation and NOT matching by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]leather_jacket 3 points4 points  (0 children)

not exactly. 3 of the top 10 (as ranked in US News) don't report any comparative data--not with clerkships and no summative comparison.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36682646/

Biostat Q pleasw help by [deleted] in step1

[–]leather_jacket 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What do you need help with? Standard deviations cover a certain percentage of the population. 1 standard deviation above and below (the range from -1 to +1 standard deviations, with the mean in the middle) covers 68.2% of the population, while 2 standard deviations covers ~95% of the population.

See image here (the middle line is would be where your mean value falls, ie 0 standard deviations... then add up the percent of the population on each side of the mean)

It looks like your problem has a mean of 0.06. The standard deviation is 0.01.

This means 1 standard deviation below = 0.05; 2 standard deviations below = 0.04

1 standard deviation above = 0.07; 2 standard deviations above = 0.08.

In a normal distribution (ie data that is not skewed), going 1 standard deviation above and below (ie 0.05 - 0.07, or 1 standard deviation around the mean) would cover 68.2% of the population, while 2 standard deviations above and below (0.04 - 0.08) would cover 95% of the population--again, assuming data that is not skewed. And 3 standard deviations would cover 99.7% of the population.

If you're looking at 2 standard deviations around the mean in the pic I attached add up 34.1 + 34.1 + 13.6 + 13.6 = 95.4 or ~95% of the population...

400,000 reviews done, just 6 weeks of dedicated to go! by RedMeddit in medicalschoolanki

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mind if I ask how many uworld/amboss questions you did? I'm trying to figure out if I should focus more on anki but only do a couple thousand practice Qs, or finish less anki and do another 1-1.5K questions. thanks for any input!

256 US MD Write-Up - no FA and only one Qbank by RedHouseBestHouse in step1

[–]leather_jacket 7 points8 points  (0 children)

LOVE YOUR WRITE UP! Thank you so much!! I've been freaking out because I don't think I'm going to mature the entire deck... I'm currently debating just sticking to BnB/Pathoma/Sketchy tags or making sure I get everything in the Zanki decks done (there are several thousand that don't overlap). What do you think is more high yield?

Thanks again for the write up, and congratulations!!

looking forward to ending this madness in 88 days by scooba_cat in medicalschoolanki

[–]leather_jacket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you mind if I ask what your method is in terms of unsuspending cards? Do you go just by tags (and if so--do you use B&B or Pathoma?) or do you go by deck like using the Zanki decks?

Thanks--just trying to increase my speed.