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I am a university student at Brigham Young University studying towards a BS in Clinical Laboratory Science, which would qualify me to become a medical technologist.  I hope to continue in a Medical Scientist Training Program, which are MD/PhD joint programs targeted towards those who want to work in medical research.  I am also a certified nurse's assistant.

My passion is ...

writing, irish dancing, language, medicine

I know too much about ...

linguistics, irish dance, physiology, anatomy

My parents always told me ...

That I'm passionate and smart

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a paramedic

Why I write ...

Because it's great

My first job ...

piano teacher

Health & Fitness > General Health (Other) Are online symptom-checkers a great resource, or recipe for anxiety?

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Everyone their own doctor: this was once called the Thomsonian ideal.  Thomsonian medicine, popular in the mid-nineteenth century is dead today.  Perhaps because it wasn’t all that effective in the long-run. It is said that as we conquer one disease, another one will rise up to take its place.  However, you probably never considered one would pop up called “cyberchondria.”  It does sound like something named by teenagers, but it is no joking matter.  It is a real problem that is the subject of several recent medical studies and is officially in We...

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