Re: RH-Laurie and everyone else

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Gillian

The students I have worked with not only learned themselves (I met them

weekly for almost 2 years) had to present information to their classmates,

so I am sure those I have worked with were impacted. I still have contact

with them by e-mail. I am hoping to get another pair in December.

laurie

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> Reply-To:

> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:17:31 -0000

> To:

> Subject: Re: RH-Laurie and everyone else

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> Do you think it is possible that the young med students aren't fazed

> by the mito. label as it is now being shown that the mitochondria

> are actually involved in possibly most diseases ?

>

> Gillian

>

>

>

>> Debra

>>

>> You are certainly right about this. This is why I think it is so

> important

>> that I get to work with med. students.

>>

>> I have also found out recently that I am seeing more younger

> doctors who

>> aren't afraid of the diagnosis. It is about time, since I have

> spent many

>> years with those who didn't.

>>

>> laurie

>>

>>> From: " Debra Beckmann "

>>> Reply-To:

>>> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:08:37 -0600

>>> To: >

>>> Subject: RH-Laurie and everyone else

>>>

>>> I can make a list of things we need to teach young doctors and

> at the top it

>>> should read M.D. does NOT mean I am God! I would guess that 50%

> of the

>>> posters on MO know more than 98% of new physicians about mito

> and that is a

>>> generous boost for the docs. New residents know enough to take

> an exam and be

>>> dangerous and the rest of their careers learn something new

> every week, at

>>> least.

>>>

>>> My daughter took a class about special populations, which

> included visits from

>>> afflicted people, deaf, blind, CP, spina bifida and she said

> without a doubt

>>> THOSE lectures were wonderful because the insight shared from a

> victim was

>>> much more real and enlightening than that from a prof spewing

> learned facts.

>>> The focus was mainstreaming children into regular classes and

> one mother

>>> refused to allow her son to be in regular classes, he could not

> keep up and

>>> the other children should not be held back. How much better it

> would be to

>>> relax the med school rules and allow electives such as mito so

> future doc

>>> could get a sample of its complexity. Over and over I have

> heard REAL

>>> DOCTORS, say if a mito patient (Alice ) told me I needed to

> be tested

>>> then I probably should since they know more about it than the

> doctors!

>>>

>>> All too many physicians are afraid of mitochondrial disease

> because they know

>>> only enough to be scared and not enough to give safe treatment.

> A teaching

>>> hospital needs victims to teach in every rotation because that

> would make a

>>> difference!

>>>

>>> Debra

>>>

>>>