FDA Moves To Ensure Safety of Supplements - washingtonpost.com
Finally the FDA is going to start regulating the content of dietary supplements. However, we are still a ways away from the FDA ensuring that supplements are safe and effective.
Yesterday I saw at Costco a huge palette of "Coenzyme Q" for sale. I snapped some comment to Naomi about how I dislike the supplement industry, although I am not sure why and she did not totally understand. I think it may be that it drives the pill-popping mindset, distracting people from the common sense of just eating a good diet. I even have friends in medical school who are vegetarian and eat very well and who still pop 1000s of units of vitamins each week, even though they know most of it will go down the toilet.
01 June 2007
Med School Year 2. Done.
The didactic portion of medical school ended a few weeks ago. It was a bright sunny day, but I was so tired I couldn't enjoy the day as nearly as I should have. In fact, I think a lot of us has already checked out of class.
So that's it two years done, half way to go, and probably even more winging along the way too. The first two years can be summed up as one giant vocabulary lesson. A lot of it was fascinating, but by about winter of my first year the cram-and-dump cycle of continuous nonstop exams began to get tedious. Some faculty member said one time that a lot of learning medicine boils down to learning how to identify relevant information from the noise. That's the other thing I learned over the past two years, in addition to a lot of fancy words and hyphenated eponyms for obscure medical conditions.
Just about everyone in med school is pretty sharp, some phenomenally so. But those who get the good grades are either those with freakishly superb memories or (most likely) those with freakishly high tolerances for self-flagellation burning the midnight oil in front of a text.
So that's it two years done, half way to go, and probably even more winging along the way too. The first two years can be summed up as one giant vocabulary lesson. A lot of it was fascinating, but by about winter of my first year the cram-and-dump cycle of continuous nonstop exams began to get tedious. Some faculty member said one time that a lot of learning medicine boils down to learning how to identify relevant information from the noise. That's the other thing I learned over the past two years, in addition to a lot of fancy words and hyphenated eponyms for obscure medical conditions.
Just about everyone in med school is pretty sharp, some phenomenally so. But those who get the good grades are either those with freakishly superb memories or (most likely) those with freakishly high tolerances for self-flagellation burning the midnight oil in front of a text.
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