The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School

Happy Thanksgiving! This week, have a heaping slice of Greg Woods, Lisa Wehr, Cole Cheney, and Corbin Weaver who cover the attention Mattel's Barbie is getting for being a shockingly bad computer engineer, and whether and how this sort of bias against the competence of women appears in medical education. We also talk a lot about bacteria studies, for some reason.

Happy Thanksgiving! This week, have a heaping slice of Greg Woods, Lisa Wehr, Cole Cheney, and Corbin Weaver who cover the attention Mattel's Barbie is getting for being a shockingly bad computer engineer, and whether and how this sort of bias against the competence of women appears in medical education. We also talk a lot about bacteria studies, for some reason.

The Short Coats opine on one doc's quest to encourage her colleagues to adopt a policy of 'total transparency' with their patients--financial relationships, personal values, the whole shebang--in an effort to increase trust in the doctor/patient relationship. Also, happy World Vasectomy Day, direct brain-to-brain interfaces successfully demonstrated again, a woman has seizures when she hears Ne-Yo sing, and Google's new employee benefit.

The Short Coats opine on one doc's quest to encourage her colleagues to adopt a policy of 'total transparency' with their patients--financial relationships, personal values, the whole shebang--in an effort to increase trust in the doctor/patient relationship. Also, happy World Vasectomy Day, direct brain-to-brain interfaces successfully demonstrated again, a woman has seizures when she hears Ne-Yo sing, and Google's new employee benefit.

The Short Coats talk about Brittany Maynard’s decision to move to Oregon so that she could be in a position to end her suffering from glioblastoma by taking advantage of Oregon’s Death with Dignity law. Also, A 2-foot lungfish is removed from a brazilian man’s intestine, Internet social media disease tracking beats the WHO to the punch on Ebola, and mid-term voting’s effects on health issues around the country are all up for discussion this week.

The Short Coats talk about Brittany Maynard’s decision to move to Oregon so that she could be in a position to end her suffering from glioblastoma by taking advantage of Oregon’s Death with Dignity law. Also, A 2-foot lungfish is removed from a brazilian man’s intestine, Internet social media disease tracking beats the WHO to the punch on Ebola, and mid-term voting’s effects on health issues around the country are all up for discussion this week.

This week’s show, featuring Cole Cheney, Willis Hong, Lisa Wehr, and Matt Maves, was recorded on Halloween so just pretend it’s a week ago.  Lisa couldn’t stay for the whole thing—she had to leave for a test—and without her moderating influence the show turned into a bro-cast. Cole isn’t happy with Ebola-quarantined Maine nurse Kaci Hickox and her bike rides while quarantined, but Dave argues that perhaps nurses are pushing back against the political maneuverings of certain governors in public health issues, and the blame that the CDC and the media have been putting on them for the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital’s handling of the Eric Duncan’s Ebola fiasco. Also, JAMA Dermatology reports that top colleges and universities feature tanning beds as a lure for students.  Scientists create adorable, tiny stomachs to study the the tummy.  More scientists create less adorable but nevertheless tiny male reproductive organs for rabbit bros, getting us closer to the production of complex solid organs.  CT-scans verify that chronic fatigue syndrome has a basis in the structures of the brain.  Cole’s beard, which is notably full and lush in recent weeks, has been declared ‘not very peaceful’ by his hothouse yoga instructor, who doesn’t understand bros, I guess. And a proposal for the Medicine and Society course’s Wellness Passport component comes from research that bros who have more than 20 partners have reduced risk of prostate cancer.

* Prostate cancer risk reduced by sleeping with many women, but increased with many men, study finds

* Many U.S. Colleges Have Indoor Tanning Salons On, Near Campus: Study

* Tiny human stomachs grown in the lab

* MRI identifies brain abnormalities in chronic fatigue syndrome patients

Listen to more great shows for medical students on The Vocalis Podcast Network.

The opinions expressed in this feed and podcast are not those of the University of Iowa or the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.  And for the love of all that is holy, this isn’t medical advice you’re getting, here, people.

This week’s show, featuring Cole Cheney, Willis Hong, Lisa Wehr, and Matt Maves, was recorded on Halloween so just pretend it’s a week ago.  Lisa couldn’t stay for the whole thing—she had to leave for a test—and without her moderating influence the show turned into a bro-cast. Cole isn’t happy with Ebola-quarantined Maine nurse Kaci Hickox and her bike rides while quarantined, but Dave argues that perhaps nurses are pushing back against the political maneuverings of certain governors in public health issues, and the blame that the CDC and the media have been putting on them for the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital’s handling of the Eric Duncan’s Ebola fiasco. Also, JAMA Dermatology reports that top colleges and universities feature tanning beds as a lure for students.  Scientists create adorable, tiny stomachs to study the the tummy.  More scientists create less adorable but nevertheless tiny male reproductive organs for rabbit bros, getting us closer to the production of complex solid organs.  CT-scans verify that chronic fatigue syndrome has a basis in the structures of the brain.  Cole’s beard, which is notably full and lush in recent weeks, has been declared ‘not very peaceful’ by his hothouse yoga instructor, who doesn’t understand bros, I guess. And a proposal for the Medicine and Society course’s Wellness Passport component comes from research that bros who have more than 20 partners have reduced risk of prostate cancer.

* Prostate cancer risk reduced by sleeping with many women, but increased with many men, study finds

* Many U.S. Colleges Have Indoor Tanning Salons On, Near Campus: Study

* Tiny human stomachs grown in the lab

* MRI identifies brain abnormalities in chronic fatigue syndrome patients

Listen to more great shows for medical students on The Vocalis Podcast Network.

The opinions expressed in this feed and podcast are not those of the University of Iowa or the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.  And for the love of all that is holy, this isn’t medical advice you’re getting, here, people.

This week on The Short Coat Podcast, Lisa Wehr, Cole Cheney, Zhi Xiong, and Greg Woods are back with this week’s completely inadvertent theme: odoriferous treatments.  Also we talk about how medical students do a lot of staring at the bark and missing the trees, and the scandalous and sexist mnemonics used in medical school for all that bark staring.  Dave looks forward to the delivery of his iPad Air 2 and ditching his 2010 iPad 2 because iOS 8 destroyed it.  U2’s Bono reveals that his silly glasses are a treatment for his glaucoma, making everyone feel bad for thinking he was just trying and failing to look cool. There is a evolutionary reason for the thick male skull, which seems to coincide with the appearance of The Three Stooges on the fossil record. Cole reveals he’s a beta male as evidenced by his reaction to blood draws, and how this reaction perpetuates the survival of the species. A British man fakes a 2-year coma to avoid court. Proposals for a robot force to deal with Ebola.  The University of Exeter isolates a compound from the smell of flatulence that they think will treat diseases that are mediated by damage to mitochondria. Researchers peg when adult humans gained lactase and thus the ability to process milk, and as a result we are thankful that Lisa grew up on a dairy farm and explains why and how adults grew to do that.  Scientists discover that our skin contains odor receptors, and a man with a spinal injury gets cells from his olfactory bulb transplanted into his spine and regains motion and sensation.

* Big Boobs Matter Most (I swear, that’s the title of the article, don’t fire me)

* Headstrong Hominids

* UK man faked coma for 2 years to avoid court

* Did Nose Cells Help Paralyzed Man Walk?

* Archaeology: The milk revolution

* Rotten egg gas holds key to healthcare therapies

* Here Are Some Robots We Could Use To Fight Ebola in Africa

Listen to more great shows for medical students on The Vocalis Podcast Network.

This week on The Short Coat Podcast, Lisa Wehr, Cole Cheney, Zhi Xiong, and Greg Woods are back with this week’s completely inadvertent theme: odoriferous treatments.  Also we talk about how medical students do a lot of staring at the bark and missing the trees, and the scandalous and sexist mnemonics used in medical school for all that bark staring.  Dave looks forward to the delivery of his iPad Air 2 and ditching his 2010 iPad 2 because iOS 8 destroyed it.  U2’s Bono reveals that his silly glasses are a treatment for his glaucoma, making everyone feel bad for thinking he was just trying and failing to look cool. There is a evolutionary reason for the thick male skull, which seems to coincide with the appearance of The Three Stooges on the fossil record. Cole reveals he’s a beta male as evidenced by his reaction to blood draws, and how this reaction perpetuates the survival of the species. A British man fakes a 2-year coma to avoid court. Proposals for a robot force to deal with Ebola.  The University of Exeter isolates a compound from the smell of flatulence that they think will treat diseases that are mediated by damage to mitochondria. Researchers peg when adult humans gained lactase and thus the ability to process milk, and as a result we are thankful that Lisa grew up on a dairy farm and explains why and how adults grew to do that.  Scientists discover that our skin contains odor receptors, and a man with a spinal injury gets cells from his olfactory bulb transplanted into his spine and regains motion and sensation.

* Big Boobs Matter Most (I swear, that’s the title of the article, don’t fire me)

* Headstrong Hominids

* UK man faked coma for 2 years to avoid court

* Did Nose Cells Help Paralyzed Man Walk?

* Archaeology: The milk revolution

* Rotten egg gas holds key to healthcare therapies

* Here Are Some Robots We Could Use To Fight Ebola in Africa

Listen to more great shows for medical students on The Vocalis Podcast Networ...