HMS

Been to HMS and Dana Farber today. These are the hallowed meccas of medicine supposedly...most of Harrison being written by people who roam the area between Longwood Avenue and Binney St; Eugene Braunwald is sitting some few square feet away, Douglas Zipes and Peter Libby are teaching some residents/fellows some place near, path breaking research is going on someplace else- I mean BWH, Dana Farber, BIDMC, Joslin, Children's hospital all in one expanse of area not more than JJH: this place rocks.I mean ROCKS!!!!!

But then the fact that there is so much snootiness, inaccessibility to the whole place is a one major put off. For all the appeal of the place,its hopelessly overpriced- they put a premium on getting in ....which is too high for me to get through as an IMG.Its a huge fat slippery American ass we have here.

A roll muster of interns gaining admission into PGY1 positions at BWH is available at the Brigham's website. Going through that makes me realize that we follow such a linear path from MBBS, to MD to DM- life is so much more easy in the training phase.These guys take pitstops at Oxford, Colombia and Africa, establish an NGO or two, patent a drug or technique before they enter residency. That they are compensated in that they do not need to have a 'set up' once they finish residency/fellowship and mint the moolah rightaway equals off the input output equation between us and them.But this is probably the most productive phase of your life man- wouldn't one want this to be a once in lifetime experience.