some good things in my med ed this week:

history of psychiatry - our dynamo resident chair in the hx. of med put things in perspective this week. i wish this type of discussion ++ (extending to include a critical analysis of what our starting point is and where our assumptions lie) was a bigger part of these formative years. instead, we spend such a lot of time on details that we will soon forget.

care of the elderly - geriatricians must be in it because they care.

films - one of the experience of a young woman with schizophrenia, and another on sue rodriguez: a woman here in canada who fought try to have the legal right to assisted suicide as she was dying of ALS. with svend robinson! both showed the face of medicine that is too often burried by our heavy tomes.

i appreciate psychiatry (in spite of some distrust with the way we model illness - though i see this field as a lens through which to see this phenomenon in all areas of medicine!) for it's awareness of it's own limitations, assumptions, and social construction.

action everywhere - a great, student-organized session on 'right to choose' this eve, and over 160 signatures on our petition to have the word genocide applied to recent events in sudan.