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Research culture NEEDS TO CHANGE IN MEDICAL SCHOOL

I'm all for petitioning to stop making research a soft requirement. No reason as a med student I should feel the need to study the...

ABC News: Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots as 222 recruits at San Antonio base sickened by influenza

https://abcnews.com/Health/military-services-requiring-recruits-flu-shots-air-force/story?id=134126794 A real-world, ongoing experience with infectious disease prompted the military services to restart something that had been in place since the end of World War...

In Houston, Texas Children's Hospital is sued by the parents of a drowned child to stop brain death testing

Texas Tribune: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/22/texas-childrens-hospital-brain-death-testing-annelise-camp/ Case 2-year-old girl and her parents were at a family gathering on Memorial Day 2026. The girl walked into the hotel pool without a...

Do yall ever just think how underpaid medicine is compared to some other careers?

I am merely a primary care physician, I am not interventional or surgical but do you ever just think how underpaid all of medicine...