May 2012
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“He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool - shun him.
He who...”
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One of Sir Vlad’s favorite quotes. (via djmarinizela)
Sir Vlad: my high school Economics teacher and one of the best teachers I’ve had to date. I never forgot this quote because of him.
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My family just finished watching Schindler's List
And I know it was such a poignant movie and all, but nagging me throughout the film was the fact that Qui-Gon Jinn, Voldemort, and Gandhi were sharing the screen.
So that was Qui-Gon’s back story: he was a Nazi before becoming a Jedi.
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“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to...”
– Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness p. 104 (via othreeanonymous)
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
medicalstate:
A diagnostic criteria for SLE is to fulfill at least four of the following eleven letters that make up the mnemonic “SOAP BRAIN MD”:
Serositis
Oral ulcers
Arthritis
Photosensitivity
Blood disorders
Renal disease
Anti-nuclear antibody positive
Immunologic abnormalities
Neurologic disease
Malar rash
Discoid rash
That is a lot of ground to cover. Are you sure it is not...
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Sometimes test writing can be humorous
mylifeismedschool:
From a friend at another med school’s fb status:
dear xxxxxxx med: if you put a question in a final about the best place to look your femoral artery, please don’t be surprised if everyone starts touching themselves.
It made me chuckle….and then try finding it too.
#MLIMS
I remember reviewing for OSCE back then. Boys and girls alike were feeling over their pants every...
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Chief Justice On Trial
My family had been religiously following the impeachment trial of the nation’s chief justice and am I glad we did. For one, it made me more knowledgeable of current events, something that admittedly I wasn’t much keen on myself prior to summer break due to the toxicities of med school. More importantly the trial had me realize how I should in my own way remain both a concerned and...
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Helmut Takes On: Priest (2011)
Vampires? Warrior Priests? Maggie Q? This was a movie I said I’d want to see.
And see it I did. Based on a South Korean graphic novel of the same name, Priest is set in a dystopian world ravaged by centuries of war between vampires and humans, until the Church-led humans had developed the perfect weapon - the priests, ‘blessed’ with suprehuman ability in anti-vampire...
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When Superheroes have...
dogpool:
a little too much to drink :/
-Dogpool
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