“I never think of my age,” she said. “We don’t die at a certain age. And if people didn’t know they were getting a certain age, maybe the same age their father died or their mother died, I think they’d be better off.”
Nola Ochs, 95, will soon become the
oldest person to graduate from
college, according to Guinness World Records.
posted by Brittanie
on Apr 29, 2007 -
18 comments
See one, do one, teach one. This has been the mantra of
medical education on the wards for a
very long time. But is it fair to the patient on the receiving end of that third-year medical student's awkward physical exam? Since their first use over forty years ago at the University of Southern California,
standardized patients (or
simulated patients,
medical actors or
teaching associates) have been employed to help medical students learn how to examine patients.
This internist signed his own mother up and much to his surprise found it helped her as much as her students
[NB: requires registration or BugMeNot; .pdf available here].
A special subset of these teachers, called
gynecologic teacing associates, bravely allow medical students to go where they've often never been before (with a white coat on). One 2nd year medical student found the experience helpful enough to write about it in the
Village Voice [clinically NSFW]. And naturally, as technology marches on, even teaching associates may be
downsized [technically NSFW].
posted by scblackman
on Sep 24, 2006 -
20 comments
Old Grandma Hardcore. "This blog is the chronicle of my experiences with Grandma, the video-game playing queen of her age-bracket and weight class. She will beat any PS2, XBox, GameCube, etc., console game put in front of her..." A 22-year-old man blogs about his grandmother's video game obsession.
posted by greasy_skillet
on Aug 10, 2005 -
17 comments
