It’s not the inaugural post by any means, but it marks the beginning of an era. I started medical school last week (an early start for a dual-degree program) and in the hubbub, I meant to document the experience but life got in the way. Better later, than forever never. Assume everything from here until 2017 will have to do with South Florida, with medicine, with public health, and with trying to do the right thing in an often-times wrong world.
To set the stage: I just came back from the pool, where I found some shade under the palm trees to do some reading assignments: a comparison of the correlation between gun ownership and the incidence of homicide/suicide across 14 developed countries, a proposal for a five-tiered classification system for different public health approaches (a pyramid), a discussion of the different structural approaches available when attacking a public health problem, a broad overview on the differences and intersections between public health and medicine, and a list from the CDC of the 10 public health achievements of the last decade (2001 to 2010). Oh, and a chapter on training physicians for public health careers. I have a feeling we will read the entire book (free PDF from that link, btw).
Needless to say, I’m happy to be down here, at one of my top-choice schools, and my only expectation is to learn a great deal. I’ll try to keep it daily, even multi-daily. I hope to keep you interested.
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