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Med-Techbros, Shortage Woes, and Ig Nobel Probes
FromThe Short Coat: An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
Med-Techbros, Shortage Woes, and Ig Nobel Probes
FromThe Short Coat: An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Oct 12, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
As another physician shortage looms, M2s Jeff and Olivia and M1 Fallon look at the reasons–the market forces, political issues, and the missing incentives. There is some good news–a shortage of physicians means that residents get a ton of solicitations for post-training jobs. Elon Musk’s Neuralink might be bad for monkeys, but the FDA has cleared the way for human trials to begin. What place do techbros–who have a rep for “moving fast and breaking things”– have in medicine where lives are at stake? And Dave gives a pop quiz on this year’s Ig Nobel Prize winners--listen to learn more about the latest technology in excretion analysis!
Released:
Oct 12, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The False Dichotomies in Medical Politics, Physician Lifestyles, and Public Discourse: This episode is all about false dichotomies--situations or ideas that seem like dilemmas (and thus require a difficult choice to be made) but which really aren't. Much of the public discussions of things like the hours that residents work, by The Short Coat: An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School