Med School Uses Admissions Equivalent of “Speed-Dating,” and Other News Items

By Filed under Interesting Links on July 21, 2011 with 5 comments

People skills is one of the requirements to get into Virginia Tech Carilion, the nation’s newest medical school.

The use of retail health clinics has risen from 10% of consumers in 2007 to 17% in 2010.

IOM: “For many of the 116 million Americans afflicted with chronic pain, help is delayed, inaccessible or inadequate.”

If your heritage is non-African, you are part Neanderthal. This latest research confirms earlier findings. (HT: Tyler)

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  1. Vicki says:
    July 21, 2011 at 9:31 am

    People skills??? You think doctors should have people skills?

  2. Buster says:
    July 21, 2011 at 9:38 am

    I once dated a lady with doctorate was in the life sciences. She worked as a researcher for a drug company. She admitted that she didn’t become a physician because she wasn’t a people person.

  3. Nancy says:
    July 21, 2011 at 10:19 am

    I’ve seen people who behave like Neanderthals. But I don’t believe that I’m part Neanderthal.

  4. Larry C. says:
    July 21, 2011 at 11:52 am

    A third of the country is in pain? Hard to believe.

  5. Virginia says:
    July 21, 2011 at 5:00 pm

    The garden article is interesting because it suggests that Americans don’t have the right to be self-sufficient (at least in their own front yards). It reminds me of the woman who got fined for trying to hang her clothes out to dry.

    http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/308751/may-05-2010/the-enemy-within—backyard-clothesline

    These sorts of regulations work during times of prosperity, but during a recession/depression?