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Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:34 pm
by Professor Tiger
Bush tax cuts helped the rich to teh tune of $70 billion a year.
Bush tax cuts helped teh poor to the tune of $130 billion a year.
Is that like the battle cry over MMGW,
"It's teh science!"?
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:40 pm
by sardis
What about my post do you all dispute?
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:18 pm
by sardis
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:50 pm
by Big Orange Junky
So first hurdle complete, found out I passed the written boards.
Now come the oral boards in April. I have heard many horror stories about them.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:07 pm
by AlabamAlum
Congrats. That's an accomplishment. You're close to being a 'real' doctor now.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:28 pm
by Big Orange Junky
i heh
Thanks I think.
I'm dreading the oral boards, they are supposed to be just awful.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:08 pm
by Professor Tiger
Congrats, BOJ. Are you up to $25/hour now?
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:37 pm
by Jungle Rat
Oral boards. Heh
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:57 am
by Big Orange Junky
Professor Tiger wrote:Congrats, BOJ. Are you up to $25/hour now?
No, I'm not making anything right now. Insurance companies try to hold money as long as possible. I just opened my practice on July 15th so I haven't gotten anything yet. I should start getting something in Sept.
I expect I'll do better than the 13 bucks an hour I was accustomed to last year though.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:36 pm
by Owlman
Big Orange Junky wrote:So first hurdle complete, found out I passed the written boards.
Now come the oral boards in April. I have heard many horror stories about them.
Congrats. (what area?)
Orals are more a trial to get through mentally. Much harder to fail in reality though, at least in OB.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:45 pm
by crashcourse
based on some of BOJ's posts the hard part of the orals might be to keep his answers within the time limit
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:43 pm
by sardis
I guess after years of predictng disastrous hurricane seasons we are finally getting a decent sized one...
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:16 pm
by bluetick
Not that it matters, but nobody predicted the record tornado/hail season either.
8 out of the last 10 years are the warmest in history, but you can't predict with absolute certainty that this year will be in the top 10 too.
although it will...unless God turns on the a/c pretty quick
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:24 pm
by bluetick
"Climate change involves complicated science and generates vigorous debate. Many are concerned about the effect of climate change on our environment. Many are concerned about the effect of climate change policies on our economy. I share these concerns, and I believe they can be sensibly reconciled.
So we've pursued a series of policies aimed at encouraging the rise of inovative as well as more cost-effective ways clean energy technologies that can help America and developing nations reduce greenhouse gases, reduce our dependence on oil, and keep our economies vibrant and strong for decades to come. "
- G.W. Bush, from the Rose Garden
4/16/2008
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:48 pm
by sardis
I'm sure G.W.B. feels we need better environmental strategery......
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:03 pm
by Professor Tiger
W was kinda stupid. Only puter, Hack, and maybe 10% of the US population would disagree with that.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:37 pm
by AlabamAlum
Spacer,
BoJ is a general surgeon.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:04 pm
by Professor Tiger
Innocentbystander might have to revisit his pronouncement that Romney is the guaranteed, slam dunk R nominee:
Posted at 01:18 PM ET, 08/25/2011
Poll watchers: Rick Perry’s GOP shuffle, economic gloom and Steve Jobs
By Peyton M. Craighill
GOP shuffle – Texas Gov. Rick Perry surged to the top of the field in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in a Gallup poll released Wednesday. This is the first high quality national poll in which former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has not been at the top among Republicans and GOP leaning independents. Perry wins 29 percent support to 17 percent for Romney, followed by Ron Paul (R-Texas) at 13 percent and Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) at 10 percent. The rest of the announced GOP candidates were in single digits. Perry is up 11 percentage points from July, before he had officially announced his candidacy.
Perry is drawing strength from two key Republican constituencies – conservatives and Southerners. Perry doubles the level of Romney’s support among conservatives, 33 to 16 percent. And he more than triples the support of Romney in the South, 39 to 12 percent.
Apparently, Republican voters prefer conservatives over moderate chameleons after all.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:37 pm
by Professor Tiger
More recent polls showing the bloom is coming off the Romney rose:
2012 Republican Presidential Nomination Gallup Perry 25, Romney 14, Palin 11, Bachmann 7, Giuliani 9, Paul 11, Cain 4, Gingrich 3, Santorum 3, Huntsman 1
2012 Republican Presidential Nomination PPP (D) Perry 27, Romney 17, Palin 13, Bachmann 10, Giuliani , Paul 6, Cain 7, Gingrich 7, Santorum 3, Huntsman 2
2012 Republican Presidential Nomination Rasmussen Reports Perry 29, Romney 18, Palin , Bachmann 13, Giuliani , Paul 9, Cain 6, Gingrich 5, Santorum 1, Huntsman 1
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
And the ObamaRomneyCare commercials haven't even started yet.
Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:58 pm
by Big Orange Junky
AA's right. Surgery.
Standing in front of the surgeons that write the text books and being grilled is nerve racking.
I don't think very many disciplines even have oral boards any more. I think they all did at one time, but most have done away with it. My OB counterparts only talked about the written boards so they may have done away with their orals too, I don't know. They talked about the written alot, but not orals.
I think Urology and CT surgery still have them, and maybe Emergency but I had heard a rumor that ER was doing away with theirs too.
Anyway, for General Surgery the fail rate is double the fail rate of the written(both nation wide and for my individual progam as well). It may be tougher to fail the orals in other fields, but for General Surgery they pride themselves on having brutal oral exams for right or wrong they are just awful so you don't hear us talk about the written that much it's always the orals we worry about.
I wish surgery would do away with them too LOL.