Being a physician, grasping the difference between sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value was paramount in many of my medical school lectures.
Category Archives: medicine
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So, the first year med students started a new class a few weeks ago called Clinical Ethics. While some have pronounced their enthusiasm for all-things-philosophical, my reaction was rather muted. Let me expain. I enjoy the occasional heady discussion, but amidst the rigors of gross … Read More →
Can I do it?
Is it possible? Three medical school secondary (supplemental) applications in one day? (Well, OK, part of last night and today.) Check back tomorrow to find out.
Neutrons for Diagnostic Imaging?
As I usually do, I checked out “Science Daily”:http://www.sciencedaily.com/ yesterday and found an interesting article entitled “New Way Of ‘Seeing’: A ‘Neutron Microscope’”:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/08/040804085752.htm. Certainly, upon reading the title, it makes perfect sense that one can use any subatomic particle as an imaging medium so long … Read More →
Jobs’ Successful Surgery
For those who are not Mac-news mongers like myself, Steve Jobs, the venerable CEO(Chief Operating Officer) of “our favorite fruit co.(Apple Computer, Inc.)”:http://www.apple.com/ underwent “surgery”:http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/08/01/jobs/ to remove an extremely rare form of pancreatic cancer. As Jobs explained in a company-wide memo, his form of cancer, … Read More →
ATP Running Amok
I know I promised something yesterday, but a 42.9 mi (69.0 km) bike ride averaging 19.7 mi/hr (31.7 km/hr) and climbing over 2700 ft (823 m) really drained me for the day. I did another 30 mi today at a killer pace thanks to the … Read More →
We can win.
Another medicine-related post, this time dealing a little less with the abstract numbers that go into medical decisions. Did you know that Norway represents the most MRSA-free country in the world? Neither did I. When you read the article, though, it becomes immediately clear why: … Read More →