Vishwas on April 1st, 2009

CNN’s homepage today highlights the plight of Teddy – a 4 year old kid with almost all kinds of allergies imaginable: Chicken nuggets, Sandwiches, Play-Doh, etc. My sympathies go with him and his family as they go through this turmoil. Moving on, the reason I write this post is because most American Kids are born [...]

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Vishwas on March 16th, 2009

Today, the fate of about 20,000 medical graduates will be decided in what could be best described as a complex interplay of luck and computing. I’m more concerned with the fate of some 8,000 foreign medical graduates (of which I am a subset of) – for we have it the hardest. The culmination of years [...]

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Vishwas on January 29th, 2008

This article is an exact copy of the article posted on the New England Journal of Medicine over here and gave me a great insight to me on how lucky we really are to be in a system which is still open to foreign immigrants. Thank you Jyoti for forwarding the link to me and [...]

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