Medical School

[JustOne]

After finishing residency I went to Law school.

Isnt there some law under human rights such as right to health or something that would allow guys with androgen deficiency be able to get proper treatment with backing from a hospital, atleast with Testosterone and HCG, rather than having to worry about what happens if there doctor retires or becomes unavailable. As I am aware the broad ranges are for health insurance reasons, not diagnosis.

For example, guys in jail have won cases over right to have children, they were given the privilege to see there wife or gf to have a kid.

The human right to education and access to information relating to health, including reproductive health and family planning to enable couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly all matters of reproduction and sexuality.

So unless they can prove HCG is dangerous, wouldnt someone on TRT have right to fertility therefore being able to use HCG.

What is the Human Right to Health?

Every woman, man, youth and child has the human right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, without discrimination of any kind. Enjoyment of the human right to health is vital to all aspects of a person's life and well-being, and is crucial to the realization of many other fundamental human rights and freedoms.

The Human Rights at Issue

Human Rights relating to health are set out in basic human rights treaties and include:

The human right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including reproductive and sexual health.

 

[marianco]

FYI - a low GPA is the biggest hurdle you will have getting into med school. Excuses won't get you past the initial thinning of applications as that is purely a GPA based exercise. You need to get the GPA up regardless of disease state before even considering medical school or you will be spinning your wheels trying to explain why your gpa wasn't up to muster. The problem isn't that people don't care about your performance difficulties being other than intellectual, they simply have limited spots available and many applicants. Solve yuor issues, get an adequate GPA and then apply.

adddoc

The GPA is the biggest hurdle. If one has a 3.0 GPA it is still possible to get into an American Medical School, but one has to have high MCAT scores - at least in double figures. It also helps to have a well-rounded personality with unique talents - so that one can write a good personal statement that will allow one to get an interview. One can then impress the interviewer and have a shot at getting in.

It is important to spend time studying specifically for the MCAT. The MCAT is actually like an I.Q. test. Like an I.Q. test, it can be prepared for so that one can score highly. It would help to spend time with companies that prepare you for the test such as the Kaplan MCAT preparation courses. They have mock MCAT tests on which you can prepare your timing and practice until you can get perfect scores. A very high MCAT score will perk up an application and stir interest in the applicant.

As far as I know, compared to veterinary school, it is far easier to enter medical school than veterinary school. When I applied, 1 out of 2 applicants got into medical school, whereas only 1 out of 40 got into veterinary school.

There are many options to traditional medical school if one wants to be able to prescribe medications.

In the U.S., if one has a low GPA, it can be easier to get into an Osteopathic medical school. D.O.s - doctors of osteopathy - learn traditional medicine and chiropracty. They can enter the same residencies as M.D.s. They have the same prescribing priveleges as M.D.s. They have their own medical board - which tends to be more protective of D.O.s than the Medical Board is of M.D.s. I think the smart D.O.s actually do more chiropractic medicine than traditional medicine. Doing manipulations can earn a good D.O. more on average than the average surgeon, with much lower risks - e.g. malpractice lawsuits. As my D.O. friends say, D.O.s who do mostly chiropractic work laugh their way to the bank.

Naturopathic medicine is another option. N.D.s can prescribe practically anything an M.D. or D.O. can prescribe in many states such as California, and can work independently. With enough knowledge, one can do a lot with an N.D. degree.

 

[cpeil2]

Isnt there some law under human rights such as right to health or something that would allow guys with androgen deficiency be able to get proper treatment with backing from a hospital, atleast with Testosterone and HCG, rather than having to worry about what happens if there doctor retires or becomes unavailable. As I am aware the broad ranges are for health insurance reasons, not diagnosis.

For example, guys in jail have won cases over right to have children, they were given the privilege to see there wife or gf to have a kid.

So unless they can prove HCG is dangerous, wouldnt someone on TRT have right to fertility therefore being able to use HCG.

What body of law are you quoting from?

 

[bigez1]

[The final arbitrator is the completely unbiased judge who simply interprets the law as it was intended . . . ok, I am having trouble finishing this statement with a straight face.
/QUOTE]

I understand your problem keeping a straight face, the reality is "to many judges interprets the law as THEY see it."

Bottom-line - physicians count results and success as whether or not the patient is improved, comforted, or "cured

I have been to enough Doctors to know that some don't even think about a Cure, but only a Treatment. At age 37 I had a total hip replacement. I needed it 10 years before that (pain scale 1-10 my pain was a 20) but my Ortho at the time wouldnt do it, said he wanted to wait, so I would have quality of when I was older. I just couldnt get him to understand, that I wanted quality of life then.

Since then, I educate myself as much as I can about my body, and what is going on within me. I know I have to proactive, and not just trust someone elses opinion, no matter what letters are before of after their name.

Dont take any of this wrong guys, The professional on this forum are fantastic, its guys like you that give me faith in Doctors and Lawyers. I know so much is expected of Medical professionals. They amount of things you need to learn and know is extreme. I still trust doctors and lawyers, I just don;t follow blindly, and fortunatly, I have found that some actually like that I queston them.

As long as someone puts their passion and true heart into what they do, and not status and money, their work and the career will show it.

 

[s0b]

If anything, once in medical school, if one gets the inkling to want to become a lawyer, generally one first finishes medical school then goes into law school. One then becomes eligible to practice malpractice law or specialize in medical personal injury law, etc. These can be very lucrative fields for a dual MD, JD.

Thats what i wanna do, finish up medicine and then go into law school and have the chance to fuck up the whole medical industry. Starting from quack-doctors, then eliminating all undertrained stubborn nurses(i still remember the one that broke a needle in my arm while giving me a tetanus shot or another one that thought that my best friend was a drug addict and wouldnt call for a neurologist while he had just come out of an automobile accident and a serious head injury) and then shut down the pharmaceutical industries that make a profit off of selling inexpensive toxic for miraculous drugs.
Marianco i guess i will be combining both attributes then- of the good doctor that strives to help fellow human beings and of the canning shark lawyer that goes after all them naive but at the same time hazardous medical personnel.

 

[zkt]

Re: Pregnenolone.

Is Pregnenolone made from HDL or LDL cholesterol or both ?

Would having a HDL level lower than normal range affect the amount of Pregnenolone produced in the body ?

As I am driving my LDL as low as possible and HDL high in at attempt to reverse vulnerable arterial plaque buildup I would certainly like to know the answer to this question.

 

[plymouth city]

Re: Pregnenolone.

As I am driving my LDL as low as possible and HDL high in at attempt to reverse vulnerable arterial plaque buildup I would certainly like to know the answer to this question.

All androgenic hormones come originally from the testes via Cholesterol breakdown into pregnenelone.

The body needs very little cholesterol to produce significant amounts of androgenic hormones. So ZKT, your fine, just like EVERYTHING ELSE, we need to stay in ranges.

Check out that link to health usa or whatever its called on my BW page and get the VAP test.

There are many ways to naturally lower bad cholestero, and raise good cholesterol. Niacin, Red Yeast Rice, Fish Oil, plenty of fiber, and assortment of vitamins and minerals and antioxidents(I recommend LEF mixes), resveratrol, Exogenous T(if low), boosting GH levels(Sermorelin or GH injects), and last, but maybe most important, is keeping BF low and lots of cardio

If your on exogenous T, the testes stop producing everything, including pregnenolone.

Adding hcG won't necessarily help this situation.

This is why pregnenolone cream is used.

 

[zkt]

"

Introduction​

The adrenal cortex is responsible for synthesizing glucocorticoid
hormones that are essential for survival under stress. This
endocrine pathway is acutely regulated by the hypothalamicpituitary-
adrenal axis in response to stress through the release
of ACTH from the anterior pituitary. ACTH signals the adrenal
gland to increase the expression of a cascade of enzymes
required for the conversion of cholesterol into biologically
active glucocorticoids. The initial and rate-limiting step in this
cascade is mediated by the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
(StAR) that transfers cholesterol from the outer to the inner
mitochondrial membrane (1, 2). Inside the mitochondria, cytochrome
P450 11A1 (CYP11A1) cleaves the cholesterol side chain
to form pregnenolone (3), which can be further converted by
a series of enzymes (e.g., type I 3​

​

?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/​

D​

​

5-D4-isomerase) to all steroid hormones produced by the​

adrenal cortex. "
http://www.jci.org/cgi/reprint/116/7/1902.pdf
Up to 25% of total T is produced by the adrenal cortex.

 

[plymouth city]

"

Introduction​

The adrenal cortex is responsible for synthesizing glucocorticoid
hormones that are essential for survival under stress. This
endocrine pathway is acutely regulated by the hypothalamicpituitary-
adrenal axis in response to stress through the release
of ACTH from the anterior pituitary. ACTH signals the adrenal
gland to increase the expression of a cascade of enzymes
required for the conversion of cholesterol into biologically
active glucocorticoids. The initial and rate-limiting step in this
cascade is mediated by the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
(StAR) that transfers cholesterol from the outer to the inner
mitochondrial membrane (1, 2). Inside the mitochondria, cytochrome
P450 11A1 (CYP11A1) cleaves the cholesterol side chain
to form pregnenolone (3), which can be further converted by
a series of enzymes (e.g., type I 3​

​

?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/​

D​

​

5-D4-isomerase) to all steroid hormones produced by the​

adrenal cortex. "
http://www.jci.org/cgi/reprint/116/7/1902.pdf
Up to 25% of total T is produced by the adrenal cortex.

That can vary

I have seen quotes that say only 10% of T is produced in the adrenals.

Either way, healthy T production ramps up adrenal production.

 

[dysfunctional]

Back to your original question....

If you are in 1st or 2nd year and thinking you can "pull up" your GPA to slightly above 3, just quit.
Go to another university and start your undergrad degree from scratch. That way your transcript will not show your 1st 2 years of low avg GPA and you can make a fresh start.

I have a friend that is redoing his entire undergrad to try and get into a Canadian med school. We wrote the MCAT together and I went straight to Australia and am almost finished. Canada is one of the toughest countries in the world to get into med school.

Your alternatives are possibly DO schools in the US, Carribean schools, maybe Australia. If interested in Andrology, head down to Sydney. There aren't many big names in andro down under. (Nobody in QLD).

I wouldn't mention any medical problems in an interview/application for med.
Go to some forums like studentdoctor.net and post questions about med school options given your GPA etc.

 

[simpllyhuge]

What about schools such as SGU or Ross.