Old thread says other medical schools won't know you were previously accepted?

[mwsapphire]

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Students moving to an off shore are more susceptible to illness & allergies for several reasons

1) as tropical/subtropical environment, you have a constant flowering/pollen season as plants fruit throughout the year

2) you have a higher concentration of flora that could be producing pollen

3) you have numerous varieties that students have never been exposed to before

4) you new microbes of many kinds that students have never been exposed to

5) you have close quarters under stressful work in new country that can stress immune systems

6) new diets, sleep patterns, etc add to that stress

7) I would add “home sickness” to that stress load

Right, right i'm just surprised that it's enough of an issue that they have to move, generally allergies are manageable with medications and shots, but I get it now.
I have allergies, too, so I'm just like " wait it's enough of an issue that that many students move bc of it?!".

 

[FlowRate]

Okay, sorry. It's just something I'm sensitive about -- (" They have * blank civilized thing* in Pakistan!?"), so Idk just people saying that third world countries are always lacking is just...a sensitive subject for me.
I'll let myself out.

Yeah it's unfortunate that the US media pretty much solely focuses images of the Middle East on dusty desert handle-bar terrorist training camps.

 

[Goro]

Pakistan is also a 3rd world country. They have allergists. Doctors ( even specialists!) can actually exist in poor countries.
You're really ruffling my feathers, here.

I'm talking about the Caribbean islands, genius

 

[mwsapphire]

You move to a new country, to a stressful environment and school where suddenly your GI system is over reacting to new food water, your eyes water and you are stuffed up to the point you cant read enough and you are sleeping poorly, and you have 2 weeks or a month of this, you may give up as well

Got it, got it. Just didn't realize there's no treatment, that makes sense.

I'm talking about the Caribbean islands, genius

I already said I understood your point. I even explained why it's something I'm sensitive about.