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September 26, 2006
Should Medical Students Take Performance Enhancing Drugs?
I've thought about writing about this before, and I wish I had, because Pin-Chieh Chiang did and now her comments section has become a world-wide confessional for medical students. 85, count-em, 85 comments, each with an illuminating story. From almost every continent. The value is fairly obvious; the side effects I've heard of are post-medication psychoses (716 hits in PubMed — once on Ritalin, always on Ritalin), loss of appetite, and cardiovascular risk (because Ritalin, speed, meth, etc, are sympathomimetics: they make your heart race). What do you think?
Would a shift of lectures away from PowerPoint factoids toward a focus on schema help?
Posted by Niels Olson at September 26, 2006 8:31 AM
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