Comments on: So you want to be a doctor

By: AWSC

AWSC — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:24:54 +0000

I’m a pre-clerk at Toronto, and printed plain films are pretty rare around here too.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:05:24 +0000

Aamir, I’ve only ever seen them in teaching. I’m still in pre-clerkship, but plain films aren’t used in Nova Scotia at this point, and I never saw any in the Austrian hospital I spent time at during the summer. The more ridiculous TV inaccuracy comes up when they start looking at plain film CTs.

Ed, there’s nothing in modern (still admittedly imperfect) admissions processes that take into account parents. Last time I checked, of course, students don’t get into medicine based on high school marks as they can in engineering physics.

By: Landon

Landon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:39:09 +0000

…don’t forget the six figure debt you will earn by the time you are done …and the fact you will get VERY little time off. Our doctors are a special breed and deserve all they earn having people’s lives in their hands everyday. When I make an error in my job or I am too busy to give something the attention I could have , it doesn’t cost someone thir life. Thank you to all of our physicians!!

By: Aamir

Aamir — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:14:58 +0000

Actually Josh, x-ray films are still present in hospitals. I work in the health care sector and have seen them on numerous occasions. Although, I will admit they are not the standard anymore, they are still present. So your statement of “*never* seen in hospitals anymore” is false. Have a nice day! =)

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:24:25 +0000

With medical school, eveyone who gets in graduates with few exceptions. A study done years ago at the University Hospital looked at all the students who got in; sure, there were those with the top marks, but then there were those with marks all over the map; their daddies were doctors.

In engineering first year, they told us to look to the right, and then look to the left, and by Christmas one of us wouldn’t be there. Indeed, by Christmas one third of the class was gone. Also, I have been told by various people over the years that engineering physics was considered the most difficult program in the university, bar none.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:10:05 +0000

A short aside, but the picture from Grey’s Anatomy is amusing – printed plain film X-rays are *never* seen in hospitals anymore and haven’t been used in years, possibly as much as a decade. Same goes for CTs and MRIs which – obviously – are even more suited to viewing electronically. Pretty much every TV show does this – maybe it’s just more dramatic for characters to gaze at a wall of X-rays than to crowd around a computer monitor.

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