End Of Slavery

You might have noticed a little clock counting down almost a year's worth of time there to the right. Actually it's really more like about 10 and a half months. It's the countdown to the end of slavery.

You may be thinking, "But slavery was abolished by Abraham Lincoln in the early 1860's". Wrong. Today in medical education medical students everywhere pay for the priveledge and honor to be able to take 30 hour shifts of doing work for people who are being paid to be there. Medical students everywhere are dumped on by residents, interns, nurses, LVNs, janitors, transport, and even volunteers. All for the low, low price of $10,000 / year. That's not a salary, that's "tuition". Multiply that by 220 students in a class and 4 classes in the school and that's like 10 million dollars of "tuition" that we pay.

And we still have to pay for parking, books, syllabuses, meals, etc, etc.

So keep an eye on that clock, because when it reaches zero, I no longer will be paying to work for the school.

On a side note, commencement was officially announced for exactly one month following the end of that countdown, on Saturday May 31st at 10 am.