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Category Archives: From School
The Learnables
Observe the newest category, being a listing of those bastions of the faith where a young Catholic can still launch out on the high adventure of liberal education.
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Ecumenical Headscratcher
Last year’s prayer service for those who had donated their bodies to the anatomy department was really quite tasteful. I’m always impressed when a quasi-liturgical function with little foundation in tradition is carried off well. Had my grandfather’s name been … Continue reading
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Prayer request
The prayer service for those who donated their bodies to the anatomy department this year was held yesterday. All the donors’ names were read, and every few names a student presented a brief meditation. Here was mine: “Perhaps it is … Continue reading
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Children
Apparently, we’ve also just discovered that childhood development is important. The previous idea was, of course, that children were just small, unready adults, to be seen and not heard, and to be shuffled off to the nanny or the boarding … Continue reading
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Patient-centred medicine
If the redundancy of that title made you wince, read on. All of our profs have informed us that the need to treat patients as people, and not just disease receptacles, was largely forgotten with the widespread application of modern … Continue reading
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Getting into med school
So there’s this idea that if you admit to being religious, you won’t get into med school. I don’t think I’m the only one who’s ever had this idea, but I have recently had the pleasure of having it entirely disproven. God … Continue reading
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Why I hate statistics
Here’s a line from my textbook: “By now you have learned from probability theory that we can never be certain about anything.”
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Shameless Cliche
Two MCAT’s: $600 Gas, bus tickets, motel and Red Bull for MCAT’s: $720 Application fees: $755 Fort Nelson to Fort St. John to Halifax to Vancouver to Edmonton to Fort Nelson to Fort St. John to London to Kingston to New … Continue reading
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Confidence booster
When I interviewed at Dalhousie, I had somehow managed to be one of 50 applicants from a pool of 400 who interviewed for 9 out-of-province spots. With stats like that, Dal gets to pick the absolute cream of the out-of-province … Continue reading
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Patience
So having filed an application for the medical program at UBC, how long would one have to wait before attending class, assuming one got accepted on the first attempt? Is it: a) Long enough to give notice at your current job, … Continue reading
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