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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

I can't do math anymore

My new heroine has to be Tina Fey..she of 30Rock, SNL,Mean Girls fame.

Funniest female alive

Not to mention the top 100 most influential people of 2007 (she has to be the one of the top females)

Sounds cool to crunch numbers and regurgitate them, doesn't it?

Contrary to common belief, I've learnt that medicine is ALL about the numbers. Percentages of prevalence and incidence of a disease, percentages of disease prognosis and treatment success/failure, percentages of success with a certain vaccine, percentages of people who are bound to die by the time they hit 60....and etcetera. Oh! Not to forget the numbers of doses of medications to give! Try trying to come up with a random number..like say 2...or 200...when you're asked in an oral:
What dose of lithium would you give to your patient?
Someone should start telling those oral examiners that There is a reason why they come up with drug formulary books.

So you don't need to come up with those random numbers.

And perhaps kill someone in the process. (I guessed wrong on aforementioned question)

God...how do I somehow manage to twist an innocent situation into a medical one??
posted by Lyn at 8:28 PM

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