If they seriously can't handle a second semester of an introductory course, they shouldn't go to med school. It's regardless of whether they actually need it or not; they'll jump through plenty of hoops and do plenty of things they don't want to do to get where they want to go.
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It's responses like the ones given here that show you how most people overly perceive the dangers of radiation exposure. Can radiation kill you? Yes - but so can a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick. I'm not saying that point the article is necessarily right, but you can't say the conclusions are dead wrong. After all, the data we have are limited.
On a side note, it's terrible that issues like this stir up irrational fears about using nuclear power and radiation exposures. I'm sorry, but do you realize you receive less of a dose going by a nuclear plant than your neighborhood coal plant (from radioactive isotopes burning along with the coal)? Or that there are people living in regions of the world that receive 30+ times the yearly dose as you or I in America (thinking of Iran in particular). And don't even think about pointing out with what happened with TMI or Chernobyl. We're not talking about the same generation of reactors (or even the type of reactor). Plus, you can't finger a single death (or even illness) from TMI; and as for Chernobyl, did you know the idiots turned OFF multiple security systems (on purpose) when the accident occurred?
We lived at such low doses - we have no idea if radiation is damaging at our levels. We simple take what we know from mind boggling high doses, and draw a line down for the effects for low doses. It's a linear no-threshold hypothesis. Yeah, stay away from radiation when you can, but don't go overboard with it. Odds are, the only time you're going to worry about acute radiation sickness is if someone decides to drop a nuclear bomb on your head - and in that case, you might already be too busy vaporizing to bother worrying.
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If they seriously can't handle a second semester of an introductory course, they shouldn't go to med school. It's regardless of whether they actually need it or not; they'll jump through plenty of hoops and do plenty of things they don't want to do to get where they want to go.
No. It's responses like the ones given here that show you how most people overly perceive the dangers of radiation exposure. Can radiation kill you? Yes - but so can a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick. I'm not saying that point the article is necessarily right, but you can't say the conclusions are dead wrong. After all, the data we have are limited. On a side note, it's terrible that issues like this stir up irrational fears about using nuclear power and radiation exposures. I'm sorry, but do you realize you receive less of a dose going by a nuclear plant than your neighborhood coal plant (from radioactive isotopes burning along with the coal)? Or that there are people living in regions of the world that receive 30+ times the yearly dose as you or I in America (thinking of Iran in particular). And don't even think about pointing out with what happened with TMI or Chernobyl. We're not talking about the same generation of reactors (or even the type of reactor). Plus, you can't finger a single death (or even illness) from TMI; and as for Chernobyl, did you know the idiots turned OFF multiple security systems (on purpose) when the accident occurred? We lived at such low doses - we have no idea if radiation is damaging at our levels. We simple take what we know from mind boggling high doses, and draw a line down for the effects for low doses. It's a linear no-threshold hypothesis. Yeah, stay away from radiation when you can, but don't go overboard with it. Odds are, the only time you're going to worry about acute radiation sickness is if someone decides to drop a nuclear bomb on your head - and in that case, you might already be too busy vaporizing to bother worrying.