No.

Yesterday Shane McConkey Died.

He is a skiing legend and he will be missed.

Enjoy this beautiful clip of Shane.



and this!

news:
http://www.superhumanmag.com/content/view/1258/92/

Break.

So, as one might of guessed, I am taking a break from the blog.

I will re-continue posting on my 3rd year medical rotations when I have some interesting medical cases, pt. encounters, and life experiences to blab about...

be well
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The Virus Pushes and We Humans Push Back.

Incredible.

I'm a WINNER!

photo credit

Happy had a contest and I won! I only guessed 30 times.
I am little suprised I was not knocked out of the comp. with the inappropriate mom joke but Amazon here I come! I got plenty of books to buy for next semester...

http://thehappyhospitalist.blogspot.com/2008/12/take-your-best-guess-win-25.html
(all the guesses are in the comment section)

winning announcement:

http://thehappyhospitalist.blogspot.com/2008/12/and-winner-is.html


Heme test tomorrow then freedom!

R.I.P Skiers....

http://www.wildsnow.com/1575/december-avalanches/

the problem with avy's are that you can be super solid and still get caught...after a few rides of my own, I am getting to be super cautious.

Sounds like one of the deaths was that of a patroller with 25 yrs experience

sad.

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Day in the Life of A Hippy, Telemarking D.O. Student

1. Wake up. Drink tea.
2. Drive to cafe. Study. Drink Coffee. Drink Coffee. Study more.
3. Blog 6 times. Read news. Check northwest snow conditions for upcoming backcountry ski trip in Washington State. It is dumping snow out there. Let out a whoop!!! in a quiet cafe. Ignore stares.
4. Go to 1.5 hours of Hot Yoga. Sweat my arse off.
5. Go to Whole foods. Eat rice and indian curry. Purchase kombucha tea. Ignore that fact that I am overspending my loan money.
6. Proceed back to Cafe for more studying. Tea.
7. Blog again.
8. Return to frozen hut with no power.

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DO school offering an MD degree?

KevinMd (also caught in ice storm central) pointed out an article describing some plans by a Texas Osteopathic school. READ HERE
Apparently, the school feels it will improve its financial situation by also offering an MD degree...
and of coarse, Kevin (like many others will)points out that this additional degree may be in effort to become a more "traditional" medical school. Cause we D.O.s all want to be M.D.s yo!

My comment on this news (copied, too busy and lazy to write something formal) are incldued below:

"there is definitely no shortage of students applying to medical school period. DO or MD. My DO school gets about 4000 applications for 120 spots. I think they accept about 450?

I really can't speculate why this texas school is doing this. I think there are some who feel D.O.s and M.D.s have become so similar in practice that there is little difference in schooling these medical students aside from the additional manipulation and biomechanic education the D.O.s get.

While I agree that we end up doing very similar jobs, I personally really do enjoy my D.O. education and feel I am getting some extra helpful hands on techniques. I think the healthcare system often dictates whether we have the time to actually use them...

I also pay the price for these extra skills with higher tuition (private), a longer school year, frequent questions of "are you really a doctor",having to take two sets of boards (COMLEX and USMLE), and some discrimination from dinosaur M.D.s that still don't get it.

I think a school offering both degrees might be a good way to go. They could do all the core science and didactics for the D.O.s and M.D.s in the same classrooms and then add on a component for the D.O.s covering osteopathic philosophy and manipulation."