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I know this story. It’s very bad. Don’t know if David is most evil person in SV. Lots of competition. But can say: we overlapped a year in law school and even way back then he had a reputation for being a complete asshole. And that was at @UChicagoLaw, which is full of assholes.

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Dean Becker, the CEO of Adaptiv Learning Systems, has been researching and developing

Paul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

Now it’s not at all unusual for doctors to begin their careers knowing they want to do something in addition to practicing medicine. In fact, a dean at Harvard Medical School tells incoming students to begin thinking from the outset of their careers about what their “hyphen” will be: Physician-scientist? Physician-educator? Physician-advocate?

Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life

Jfc: “One professor said that a student in the operating room could not identify a major artery when asked, then berated the professor for putting her on the spot. Another said that students at the end of their clinical rotations don't know basic lab tests and, in some cases, are unable to present patients.___LINEBREAK_... See more

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Anthony Drexel, of the long-established Philadelphia banking family, changing the firm to Drexel, Morgan & Co., with the older man again named first.

Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

Most students used to think they wanted to be “real” doctors But by the time third year rolls around and they start witnessing how much their attendings hate their lives, things change They see how overworked and underappreciated they are. They see stupid ass administrators who have absolute... See more

Sandeep Palakodeti, MD MPH x.com

What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs. I’m a tenured full professor. I could probably get away with that for a while, but sooner or later the Dean’s going to bring me in for a sit-down. Plus, if we flunk out half the student body and drive the un... See more

The average college student today

As my colleague Jim predicted, I found my initially rigid standards nearly impossible to meet over time. After all, a doctor is not simply a repository of information but a human being with a personality, a sense of humor, and a point of view.

Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life

But if I didn’t work in the clinic I feared another kind of erasure: the denial of the doctor I had been for most of my adult life. Where did this feeling come from? Medical school. Part of the curriculum, no less essential than anatomy and physiology, is the teaching that physicians do not turn away from human suffering. Others may avoid the sickl