June 2011
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Ten Great Public Health Achievements ---... →
pubhealth:
In its weekly publication (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, MMWR), CDC identifies the ten most significant public health achievements at the global scale in the last decade.
Posting from Addis Ababa just because I can.
After two amazing days in NYC catching up with some of my best friends, a 9-hour flight to Istanbul, a 4-hour layover at Ataturk in which I walked laps around the international terminal sampling duty free perfume, a 5-hour flight to Addis, and another two hours getting through customs and waiting for my ride to the hotel (they thought I was coming in the following night), I’m here. Two more...
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NYT: Don't Quit This Day Job →
I wanted to post this last week when it came out, but I’m just now getting around to it, and I’m sorry I’m not more eloquent but I’m trying to savor my last day in the US: here is the controversial NYT op-ed arguing that physicians—well, just women physicians—are doing a disservice to society by working part time.
Dr. Siebert, an anesthesiologist, argues that...
Oh, by the way:
I finished my first year of medical school!!! I’ll probably have more profound things to say once my brain turns on again (srsly, all I’ve done since Friday at noon is drink beer, go out for food, sleep, work out, and watch random shit on TV), but for now: eff yeah. one year down, four to go.
I’m leaving for NYC —> Istanbul —> Addis Ababa —> Gimbie...
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you...”
– Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw (via aconfectionarytale)
Doctors Without Borders: The Impact of... →
pocketglobalhealth:
The need to increase access to ARV’s is becoming more and more evident: fewer deaths, fewer new infections, fewer orphans, and better health systems.
doctorswithoutborders:
Fewer Deaths Globally, HIV-related deaths dropped by 19% from 2004 to 2009 as ART access increased. In Thyolo district, Malawi, MSF estimates that over 10,000 lives were saved between 2000-2007 because...
just realized:
this is my last weekend of studying.
HALLELUJAH
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“Compared to one or two decades ago, women and girls fare markedly better....”
– John Donnelly in Global Health Magazine
Click here for the full issue, which focuses on women and girls’ health. Worth a read!
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EpiSurveyor
Have any of you public health/global health people used this mobile technology?
My PI is really interested in EpiSurveyor and I’ve been assigned the task of playing around with it in Ethiopia this summer. I would love to pick your brain if you’re familiar with the software!
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you know you're a little donezo with school when:
you play “azole” in a Wordsmith game and that counts as studying anti-fungal drugs. 37 points!
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to my future patients:
if you start running your mouth about your friend’s custody battles on your cell phone in the middle of a colposcopy and cervical biopsy*, i might lose it. you won’t be able to see my face because i’ll be all up on your cervix, but trust me: i’ll probably be laughing.
*this really happened at ob/gyn clinic this week: the patient was spread eagle, hanging out, chatting,...
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