Medical Students, leave your gun at home…
Medical student in hot water?
We always enjoy stories about medical students getting up to fun and frolics over the festive period but it seems that an unfortunate incidence at the 9/11 memorial in New York has left one medical student in the US facing jail.
Meredith Graves, 39, from Tennessee apparently had a permit for the gun, a .32 calibre pistol for her home state. On asking a guard where she could check her hand-gun, she was promptly arrested leading to a flurry of comments from the on-line community about the rights and wrongs of being jailed over such actions.
Her mother in law is quoted as saying the following.
Everyone down there carries, and she just forgot. She was being honest, and this is the treatment they give innocent people.
Be careful when approaching an armed medical student?
We’re a little worried about the slightly more serious prospect of being confrunted by an armed medical student at a job interview or on a post-take ward round. It brings a whole new tact to the question “is that fast-slow AV-NRT or slow-fast AV-NRT”. One of Medical Educator’s contributors had the following to say.
It makes a change hearing about students getting into problems with social media. Two thoughts. One: what’s the stupidest thing you have taken to a job interview (a gun would be up there, although could prove useful for some competitive specialities). Two: is jail the right thing. I can’t imagine what my own institutions fitness to practice committee would say about it. But jail?
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*We think that most people that claim to know the difference between these forms of atrio-ventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia are either (1)lying (2)trainee cardiologists (3)deluded.