Karma Bro, A Trumped-Up Doctor’s Note, and Sleepless in The Saddle
The Short Coat: An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School - A podcast by Dave Etler and the Students of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine - Thursdays
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This week our expert medical news analysts, John Pienta, Marc Toral, Greg Woods, and Amy Young, discuss why Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli is so hated, given that capitalist enterprises have profit as their overarching goal--hasn't he just done his job? Meanwhile, two ongoing clinical trials have been experimenting on human subjects without consent. Those subjects: residents and their patients. The experiment: what happens if hospitals return to the longer hours that prevailed for residents before they were restricted in 2011? We explore consent, residents' satisfaction with their working conditions, how many residents may not feel that restricting their hours is best for the patients, and what working and being a patient at an academic medical center means.
