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I really liked Cell Biology lab. I hated the weekly lab reports. Organic chemistry II lab was a good time, but it was the people in the lab rather than the material itself. I loathed Bio II lab and both gen chem labs.

I like this idea, we'll see what we can do.

Apparently he lied about his disciplinary history to Australia, and Australia didn't check with Oregon (the state which revoked his license) before allowing him to practice there.

I did some searching on him, and it appears he used to practice in the US. After he got his license revoked in Oregon and New York, he fled to Australia. Once your license is revoked in one state, it becomes very hard to keep your licenses in other states. I doubt he'll be allowed to practice here again. "In one, according to documents, Patel performed a colostomy backward, blocking the patient's gastrointestinal system." Oh my.

Interesting. He'll get the pants sued off him as soon as he slips up here. Unfortunately, he'll have to mess up first, which means there will be a victim. I wonder why certain states allowed him to get a license. Strange, and scary.

I'm looking to buy a new PC game, but I'm a bit out of the loop as to what is good and what is teh suck. World of Warcraft looks pretty good to me. I definitely want good multiplayer. Single player isn't really important to me. Suggestions?

I'm particularly fond of the magical lightning strikes in which sound travels at infinite speeds. As soon as the lightning bolt flashes thunder is instantaneously heard! Watch for it.

In the states, following a hospital review, a lawyer will kindly review the chart too!

Right. They actually teach that copout in medical school. Why else would it be illegible? Being lazy? Is that what landed them in medical school? You don't understand pressed for time. Third and fourth year students are pushed very hard to meet time demands. In fact, the clinical portion of the USMLE Step 3 has very strict time constraints. A patient with a big mouth can put you in a bad position very fast. In a real setting, insurance companies don't like when you spend lots of time with patients. They start sending letters to you about the amount of time you spend if you go over their "allotted time". Imagine the following clinical setting. Assume the insurance companies mandate that you see X patients per day in order to have their business. Let's assume a physician has a total of 35 patients he must see in a day. You're only allowed to spend 15 minutes with each patient (because the insurance company says so). From each patient you must review the patient's history (charts), do a complete oral examination, a complete physical examination, a localized physical examination, and then chart everything. You must also diagnose, refer, and/or prescribe. Then, post-examination you have to document everything that you did. 15 minutes of visitation is what you're paid for. Anything else you do is on your own time. You also have 34 other patients who are getting pissed off at how long they've had to wait in the lobby. That must be it. "You know what? screw this patient, I'm not going to write legibly". It happens all the time. "I couldn't read your writing, what did you order?" Depends on whether or not the doctor is actually the reason for the death.

Bo will win.

In short, lots and lots of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Things like skin aren't single elements. They're complex arrangements of elements, again mostly C, O, and H.

I saw it last night. It was better than the first two (Jar Jar only had a few cameos, and didn't speak in any of them!). The visuals were extremely impressive. The acting was craptastic in a few places (especially the love thing). I really liked Darth Sidious. The actor that played him did an excellent job. [hide]The lightsaber battle that took place between yoda and sidious on the rising platform in the center of the senate was awesome, as was the duel between Anakin and obi-wan.[/hide]

Just in case everyone forgot, the OP asked, "I would like to invite others to post on this thread other evidence or insights that I have missed (I hope to just cover the basics with this first post) and we could possibly use this as a reference in the future."

Unless you're going to provide evidence, this thread will be closed. Assumptions because you think something is or is not are not up for discussion.

Haha. Perhaps by the time I graduate it will be better implemented. That's probably wishful thinking though.

It's hard to say. There's no way to memorize every single reaction. Your professor will probably give you some idea as to what you should be studying. Usually what you cover in class you'll see on the test somewhere. Most lectures involve discussion of a couple of general reactions, their mechanisms, and some examples. Undoubtedly you will have a better idea of what to focus on when you start class. There are some classic reactions that will pop up such as: Diels-Alder, aldol condensation/addition, Wittig and Wittig-horner, Wolff-Kishner, Reformatsky, etc etc. These are paramount and will likely be on your exams. But anything he covers is likely fair game, so don't neglect anything if you can. Eventually you should be able to combine several reactions together and be able to predict the product at each step. You should also practice predicting the reagents (i.e. you're given a starting compound and the compound after a reaction. Predict what chemicals were used). Typical test problems (for me) consisted of a starting compound and initial reaction conditions. From here, you have to predict the product. Then, they'll give you the next product and you have to figure out the reaction conditions. My tests consisted of maybe 15 of these sorts of questions (one to four reactions, predict the product OR reagents). Then, there were always two or three mechanism problems. Usually they gave us a reactant, reagents, and a product and asked us to draw the mechanism, including all intermediates, transitions, charges, and resonance structures (these are important!). There are a ton of resources on the web both for understanding and practicing problems, so seek those out if you need to. I've typed a lot and just realized I haven't really answered your question clearly. So, in a nutshell: you won't have to know them ALL. You'll need to know some, he may or may not tell you which ones. You'll have a better idea regarding how you need to study after the class starts and especially after the first exam. Keep us posted on the class!

Truely. It ends up being a "credit card" for time. They'll just end up being asked later about it. Some hospitals here are starting to move towards paperless prescriptions in which the doctor prescribes and charts on a computer. It will work nicely for both parties when it's perfected, but you know how long it takes to implement new technology into a system that's well established.

Have you started yet?

That's probably not it. If it was that time sensitive there would be warnings somewhere. Is there a particular reason you didn't go with RNAse/phenol wash?

Unfortunately, as pointed out on slashdot, people are afraid of the word nuclear.

It's something that's picked up during medical school and perfected throughout their practice as a result of strict time constraints. So much to write, so little time.

Indeed. We spend 8 years in training twittling our thumbs and learning how to sign our name. Enjoy your youth. Hopefully you never have to spend enough time in the hospital to see what physicians can do.

I was trying to find a shadow. It looks too circular to be smoke. It's probably just an artifact.

Indeed, happy birthday demos, atm, jgerlica, and phi!

Fixed.