Originally posted by uclabruins47
do you know what organization is hosting this?
Premed AMSA. Here's the e-mail being sent out:
Speaker: Michael Greger, M.D.
February 25, 2003 - Tuesday
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
CHS 13-105
Michael Greger, M.D. is a nationally recognized speaker on a number of
important public health and social justice issues. Dr. Greger is a
general practitioner specializing in vegetarian nutrition. He is a
graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the
Tufts University School of Medicine.
Dr. Michael Greger shares personal stories from his own experiences in
medical training from his book Heart Failure: Diary of a Third Year
Medical Student in hopes of sparking discussion on controversial issues
such as informed consent, the ethics of first-time procedures, and
medical student abuse and fatigue. By opening up this dialogue, Dr.
Greger hopes to break through some of the isolation surrounding these
often painful areas and help trainees renew their school's commitment
to medical student well-being.
www.veganMD.org
Food will be served. Please come and join us for dinner and a great
discussion!
And c'mon, if I ever want to grow up to become a doctor that knows how to help people I can not stop to give EVERY single homeless person on the street money or invite them to my apartment to live or walk 50 ppl/day to a shelter. Give me a break. I'm also rather suspicious of the fact that he never mentioned any friends except for his fiancee, who seemed to serve the purpose in his book of regurgitating his opinions on med school. He also focused on everything negative about the staff, with hardly any positive stories about the patients. Trust me, it is hard to ignore patients and the kind of $#-+ many of them go through, going to my Selective in Peds and my PDII day at Shattuck Hospital are what keep me going and what helps me keep my silly problems in perspective. I know third year will be tough, but it will mean more to me than being warm and safe in the lecture hall, even if some surgeons are mean and crude and awful for 12 weeks. 
