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<p>This practice is based in Dallas, Tx. When I found out they were opening this practice, we were one of the first in line. I remember thinking “why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?!”</p>
<p>I recently read of another parent in another state mentioning a practice very similar to this one, so maybe this is the where adolescent medicine is headed. I certainly hope so.</p>
<p>Thanks, Nrdb. Too bad, TX is not an option for our family~
I, too, hope for more practices like this.</p>
<p>Future docs’ parents and pre-med students on this site—take note!!!
This is a great market niche, and a one-stop shop/holistic clinic for teens is a great way to improve effectiveness of prevention of/ treatment for this age group.</p>
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<p>Where we are doctors don’t need any more market, no shortage of patients.</p>
<p>“Thanks, Nrdb. Too bad, TX is not an option for our family~”</p>
<p>Good stuff happens in Texas, we just hide it from everyone else!</p>
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<p>Wow. After 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, 6 years of further training, and I don’t know how many sleepless nights spent in patient care, I see I completely missed the boat. If I’d only focused more on teaching girls how to insert tampons, I could have been truly appreciated.</p>
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<p>Hmmm, when I chose a doctor (for myself), I chose one of the same gender, similar age, and with interests that had a slightly greater chance of being applicable to me than the interests of some of the other doctors as listed in their profiles. The doctor went to a medical school in another country (almost certainly that of birth and childhood), but did a residency in the US.</p>
<p>The same gender, similar age, and interests were to increase the likelihood of the doctor having personal experience with whatever possible medical issues that I may encounter in the future.</p>
<p>Re. adolescent physician:</p>
<p>My 2 D’s have been seeing someone in NJ (north/central) for several years now. I had become very friendly with our pediatrician, and when she decided to stop working I asked her where she sent her own teenage daughter. </p>
<p>The MD has a private practice and a relationship with the Adolescent Medicine dept at major suburban hospital. Practice does checkups, etc., but specializes in teen issues: eating disorders, std’s, emotional issues. She’s great, always has time to sit and make each patient feel special and important—but she doesn’t take insurance.</p>
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<p>And that attitude is why many of us are taking our kids to doctors who actually give a flip. I was very appreciative that taking care of what was a significant problem for my daughter was not beneath her as expressed above. These doctors are making a good living-many parents are going to this practice even though they are out of network and are paying out of pocket for their holistic, spot on care.</p>
<p>EDIT re; credentials: My D’s doctor didn’t go to Harvard Med, but her training is good enough for us.</p>
<p>“She is a graduate of Stanford University, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston. She did her residency training in Pediatrics in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship in Health Services Research at UCLA with an emphasis on confidentiality and access to care for adolescent and young adult women.” Her partner did most of her stuff at Northwestern and also specializes in adolescent medicine.</p>
<p>OP: sorry for the hijack.</p>
<p>With regard to mini’s post, #329, it is an interesting question where the Ivy anthropology majors went. </p>
<p>One of my friends, who was a physics major at Harvard, remarked that he did not expect much faculty attention, because there were 4 or 5 physics majors in his year who were stronger than he was. However, it turned out that they were all going to med school, and he got a lot of attention from the faculty. I know that one year in the past at Harvard there were 26 chemistry majors, and 23 of them went to medical school.</p>
<p>One of the rather odd changes over the years is the decrease in the proportion of Ivy Phi Beta Kappa BA’s who go on to grad school. Not to pick on Harvard, but happened to see the data on that–I believe that the proportion decreased by a factor of 3 from the 1960’s to the late 1980’s (not sure what has happened recently).</p>
<p>It is interesting to look at the undergrad institutions of the NSF PECASE winners; this is a grant-application-based award for young faculty, the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineeering. My guess is that the proportion of winners from “top” undergrad institutions varies quite a bit from field to field. Physical anthropology might be among the fields of possible award. I am fairly sure that cultural anthropology is not within the NSF portfolio, but can’t say about linguistic anthropology.</p>
<p>USC is a strong school with a considerable research presence. The availability of summer research programs as mentioned in menloparkmom’s example can also help to provide a broad-based interaction with research mentors beyond any given undergraduate institution.</p>
<p>“One of the rather odd changes over the years is the decrease in the proportion of Ivy Phi Beta Kappa BA’s who go on to grad school.”</p>
<p>Well, from the one sample that I have, it could be because none of them got in. To my d’s program, not a single one in five years. (That was true for all the Ivies.)</p>
<p>(Check the Yale med. school data I’ve previously posted- latest I had was 2003, but from 1980, the percentage of the Yale class that went to med school dropped by 2/3rds. No idea what it is now.)</p>
<p>QM - Those are astoundingly high numbers going to med school among hard science majors. There’s practically no real science majors at Harvard. Are any of them going into medical research by any chance? Do you expect "intellectual vitality’ in a group so career oriented?</p>
<p>Nrdsb - Do any of them accept the insurance? Are they by any chance for-profit establishments?</p>
<p>"She/He’s trying to say “A top HS grad such as your daughter is not the “typical” student at UMO.” I have no idea if that’s true, but I think that’s what the poster meant to imply. "</p>
<p>-My D. was typical at MU Honors college, that had requirements of top2% of HS class =
ACT=31+, 200 spots total. Many of her pre-med priends were in Honors. As far as I know many in Honors dorms were valedictorians, including my D’s roomate. This was my D’s crowd. However, she realized that she needed to expand her social horizon. And thank goodness she had this chance at her UG. So she joined sorority and had other activities that included many kids outside of her regular contacts. Looking back and comparing herself in her current very selective environment, she has concluded that not many had the same opportunities.
As far as academics goes, she also indicated that while she always had profs in her classes whose first priority were UG students, many others in Elite / Private / Highly ranked colleges had TA’s / Assistants, since primary focus of profs was their research / grant money / which is one of the ways to obtain higher University ranking. </p>
<p>These 2 advantages might not be important to others. However, they are something that my D. appreciates more and more moving forward in her life. They are the keys to success in what she has chosen for herself with her personal approach to it. As many pointed out, everybody is different with various goals for UG education. There is not way to determine in general terms which UG is the best.</p>
<p>Med school admissions operate rather differently from grad school admissions for a Ph.D., from what I’ve seen.</p>
<p>Also, to Iglooo: it’s old data, so I don’t know the situation now. However, quite a few of the Harvard physical science majors are actually pre-meds, I think. Some of them are probably doing MD/Ph.D’s and planning a career in clinical research.</p>
<p>Harvard claims they have no pre anything (med, law, business) and so everyone has to pick a major and go through the requirements. So chemistry and Biology probably have the most premeds?</p>
<p>Makes sense.</p>
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<p>Plenty of schools do not have a specific pre-med/law major. But the most popular major for pre-meds is biology, while the most popular majors for pre-laws are political science and English.</p>
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<p>You’ve missed the boat if you don’t get that taking the concerns of your patients seriously is the way to instill patient loyalty and become successful. My H is a physician. It is <em>precisely</em> the “small” things like this that are what have helped him become very successful in his field. It is keeping notes on the personal lives of patients so the next time he sees them, he can say, “Hey, Mrs. Smith! How was your skiing trip?” or calling me at the office to say, “Hey, I’ve got Mrs. Jones here, she is going to San Francisco next week, what was the name of the restaurant we liked there?” It is ALL OF THAT STUFF that makes his patients so loyal to him that they’d pay even if he is out of their insurance plans, why they recommend their friends, why our home is full of baked goods and handmade gifts for our children. This in turn is what enables him to practice better medicine, since they will trust his recommendations since they know (or perceive) that he cares, and trust that he’s more knowledgeable than the crap they get forwarded from their friends on the Internet. Don’t underestimate this side of the equation. Just as we talk about “fit” between a student and college, there is a “fit” issue here between patients and doctors. I am personally more of the business-like-hands-off-relationship school of thought with my doctors, but many people want more of a relationship and the doctor who goes out of her way to help the young teenager with the tampon question gets it.</p>
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Would you say there are practically no real English majors at Harvard if they don’t all go on to PhD’s in English? (And I think relatively few of them do.)</p>
<p>Customer relations is certainly important. Dh left his doctor because the person in charge of billing was impatient.</p>
<p>FWIW, according to my son, being pre-med is not really that popular at Harvard. Kids have a lot of options. Many don’t want the long years in school and debt entailed in medicine. Medicine is not really that prestigious at Harvard. Kids can do consulting or finance right off the bat at high salaries and so have trouble justifying medicine. Law school is shorter. That’s where you’ll find a lot of the phi beta kappas. Also, PhD programs aren’t seen as all that cool, either. They hear too much from their TFs how awful academia is these days. And then there’s the premed classes at Harvard. Despite the claims of all the “experts” who have proven grade inflation at Harvard, the premed classes are extremely tough. When son took his premed physics one summer at public land grant school it was just ridiculously easier than what he’d been dealing with at Harvard. So many Harvard kids will major in whatever and then do a post-bac somewhere else to fulfill premed reqs. </p>
<p>The thinking here on this thread of late seems to be the best and brightest will want to do medicine. I seriously doubt this is the true scenario at places like Harvard. Perhaps true at places like Missouri University.</p>
<p>You don’t need to be the best and brightest to do medicine, though, honestly. I mean, you need to be bright, obviously, but you don’t need to be a brainiac if your goal is being an everyday doctor. “House” to the contrary, of course.</p>