Tag: Medicine

• February 21, 2012

  On changes to the MCAT and on what makes a good doctor good

  On Friday, one of the headlines in The Chronicle of Higher Education caught my eye: “Medical-Admissions Test to Look More Broadly at Who Will Be a Good Doctor.” The article states that, as of 2015, the MCAT, the nation-wide exam that is administered to students who hope to attend medical school, will be making some significant…
• August 29, 2011

  A letter written by a Doctors Without Borders friend of mine upon arriving in South Sudan

  The following is a letter a friend of mine wrote about her first experiences as an obstetrician and surgeon working  for Doctors Without Borders in South Sudan. Her letter gives the reader a good sense of the state of medical care in some of the harder hit areas of central Africa. D.H. Lawrence is said to…