Author: Fred Gardner

Marx in the Afterlife

1. According to Bob DylanOn Rough and Rowdy Ways, the album Dylan released as he turned 80, there’s a song called “My Own Version of You” in which he shows us Karl Marx burning in Hell and getting the skin...

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Carmody on the Residency Selection Arms Race

Part 1: On Genghis Khan, Racing Trophies, and USMLE Score Creep by Brian Carmody, MD Genghis Khan was the leader of the Mongol Empire. At its largest, his army numbered around 130,000 soldiers, consisting primarily of a...

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The 2021 Match: By the Numbers

 June 1, 2021 by Bryan Carmody There is a certain rhythm to the calendar in academic medicine.July brings new interns. September brings new residency applications. March is Match Day. And May – well, May is when the National...

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Sheriff Carmody Busts the NBME

There’s a new sheriff in town—Bryan Carmody, MD,  a pediatric nephrologist who teaches at Eastern Virginia Medical School and calls his website thesheriffofsodium.com, In a series of brilliant blog posts and tweets,...

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