The Never Ending Search
You might have heard people say that they like to serve the poor and that’s why they chose medicine as a career. What you don’t hear is what they say at the back of their minds. “I’d like to serve the poor” (In America) “I’d like to serve the poor” (And have a million dollar house) “I’d like to serve the poor” (I think) “I’d like to serve the poor” (Nah! I took the course because I hate Maths) Hatred for Maths or hatred for physics is not as common among medical students as one might imagine. There are medicos who talk about maths and physics as if they were Hyderabadi Biryani and DBC respectively. One might expect as little maths in the Medicine curriculum as possible but every now and then mathematical formulae keep giving a guest appearance in the text books, some of which we are expected to mug. But there is one, should I say branch in medicine which operates on numerical data. ‘Research’ is where m...