Comments on: Panda on AMSA http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/panda-on-amsa.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/panda-on-amsa.html/comment-page-1#comment-84402 Anonymous Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:23:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/panda-on-amsa.html#comment-84402 It was my involvement with AMSA as a medical student that put me off organized medicine altogether. Children playing at being adults. A contest to see who can be more-politically-correct-than-thou. It was my involvement with AMSA as a medical student that put me off organized medicine altogether. Children playing at being adults. A contest to see who can be more-politically-correct-than-thou.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/panda-on-amsa.html/comment-page-1#comment-84401 Anonymous Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:21:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/panda-on-amsa.html#comment-84401 One hopes that it has merely skipped a single generation. On the other hand, multiple lines of evidences suggests that the post-modern philosophy that rejects the existence of objective truth has already ended the age of history began by the Enlightenment and that we are on the cusp of a new dark age of superstition and regression.<br/><br/>I had a patient once ask me if I believe in post-modernism--she did. She did not argue with my explanation of why one wants a physician who believes in the objective reality of material facts however much human frailty and flaws may obscure the precise determination of those facts. One hopes that it has merely skipped a single generation. On the other hand, multiple lines of evidences suggests that the post-modern philosophy that rejects the existence of objective truth has already ended the age of history began by the Enlightenment and that we are on the cusp of a new dark age of superstition and regression.

I had a patient once ask me if I believe in post-modernism–she did. She did not argue with my explanation of why one wants a physician who believes in the objective reality of material facts however much human frailty and flaws may obscure the precise determination of those facts.

]]> By: Edward Sodaro MD http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/panda-on-amsa.html/comment-page-1#comment-84396 Edward Sodaro MD Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/panda-on-amsa.html#comment-84396 AMSA, American Medical Student Association, has been an absolute disgrace for many years, less than useless, incompetent, embarassing, and (now) proponents of criminal quackery. <br/><br/>A confederacy of dunces. AMSA, American Medical Student Association, has been an absolute disgrace for many years, less than useless, incompetent, embarassing, and (now) proponents of criminal quackery.

A confederacy of dunces.

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