Why does anyone apply to medical school? It's a long course-five or six years and the entry requirements are about as high as they could be.So what's the attraction? Put "d" and "r" in front of your name and say it aloud. Then say confidently: "Erm, I believe you have a lesion in the upper right qudrant, Mrs Brown, and this is the source of your tendency towards haematuria and trigeminal neuralgia. We'll do FBC,and LFT."

Feeling uplifted? Fill in the form now, doctoring is obviously for you. So are you in it for the money? You'd think so. Starting salary $15,000 can't be bad. But if you're working 100 hours a week, this can work out at $2.50 per hour. I got more working in a sandwich factory. Some plastic surgeons maybe earning six-figure sums, but your average GP isn't on that sort of money. Remember it's danger money you don't know who's going to cough what over you next.

Some Sixth-Formers think medicine is like detective work- find the bug, and you've solve the crime.You're less likely to be shot at on a geriatric ward than tailing some drug baron, but let's be honest, medicine is attractive because of endless opportunities for nosiness.

You can ask all the questions you like - who they've slept with, which ways round, how many partners because it's relevent to their symptoms. And your patients never fail to surprise you. Medicine is meant for nosey parkers; as the inventor of the stethoscope would tell you (if he were alive), once you've listened through a wall with your "tubes", you'll never use a glass again.




Determination to sucess by William Gate

Being determined just means setting priorities. Are you willing to make sacrifices? Are willing to pursue a goal that takes a long time to achieve? Are you willing people think you're kind of strange because of your focus on mission they don't find interesting.

Determination is an important ingredient to success, but don't make to much of it. Determination alone doesn't gurantee anything. You need to be motivated by more than a pure desire of achievement.

To succed, put yourself on a path you enjoy that leads somewhere important. If you set yourself down a miserablepath that requires determination at every steps, what are you going to do when you finally reach your goal?

I've done things that required pure determination, but not with pleasure. Somebody recently asked how quickly I could run a mile. I didn't know. So we remarked on a mile on a road up in Canada and I ran as fast as I could. It was eight or so minutes pure determination, and it wasn't much fun.

Certain vital tasks require determination. For me, telling people they aren't doing a good enough job requires determination. Giving them a clear assessment sooner rather than later is the right and fair thing to do, but I have to force myself to do it.

When I see people who just goofoff all the time, I wonder why they don't adopt a longer term goal. Some people have away of feeling up theirs days, often without achieving much. If you're determined, you fill your hours differently.

Kissing tells by Jerry Zezima

Men do you belive that a kiss is just a kiss, sigh is just a sigh, that fundamental things apply? If so, stop singing and pay attention. This could be the beginning of terrible relationship with the woman in your life. That's because,according to an article in Glamour magazine, you are probably a lousy kisser. The article, written by Brian Alexander and Merry Bloch Jones, who write frequently about relationship, is title Man And Kissing: They Spill-All Report.

Written from perspective of a man, the articles opens with these words "It could be argued, and I'll do it right now, that a kiss is the most intimate conversation a man and a woman can share. So it'stoo bad when you kiss us, we frequently miss your point." No kidding! If a man and a woman try to have a conversation while their lips are locked, something is going to get lost in the translation. Very likely, the conversation will go something like this: Man-Mmmmmmmmfff Woman-Aaaaanngghh Translation: Man-You are the most beautiful woman in the world Woman-Your breath smell like a brewery!

What we have here, obviously is failure to communicate. In other words, kissing is a problem for both men and women. Either way, if a man and a woman want to carry on a conversation while they're kissing, ought to be use hand signals. I decided to cxonduct a research for my own spill-all report on man and kissing. I started by asking my wife what kind of kisser I am . "You're wonderful dear," she responded . "On a scale 1-10, you're 10.5."

Then I conduct a poll of three women ( my wife and two of her friends) based on following Kissing Fact which appear in the Glamour articles and is attributed by Dr Joyce Brothers: "by the time she says 'I do,' the average American women will have kissed 79 men." "I didn't have 79 boyfriends, if that whwt's you're trying to find out," said my wife.

Neither did her friend Cherl, even though she estimated that she kissed 100 men before marrying Bruce. "My social life wasn't that good," she explained. Jennie, on the other hand, kissed only 10 men before getting married to Ralph. ("And I'm not shy," she added.) Then I asked the women about another Kissing Fact, which come from The Kissing Book by Tomoma Edmark. Later, for the last part of my research, I gave my wife a kiss. Unfortunately, it was right after I smoked a cigar. "Yuck!" she shrieked. "You just dropped to an 8." Well, men nobody's perfect.