Okay, let me make my best efforts to ensure that the blog does not become Tom's personal stomping grounds. Interesting occurence in class today. We had a lecturer come in to give class on smoking: treatment and prevention. What made this class interesting, was that the doctor giving the talk works for a drug company, Glaxxo Welcome, that sells Zyban, a drug that helps people stop smoking. It was a completely ridiculous 2 hour lecture. Essentailly a sales pitch that did its best to zero in on medical students weaknesses. For instance, the doctor kept harping on how evil cigarette smoking is, and how anybody who smokes must be due to manipulation of the tobacco companies. Of course, this is an oversimplifcation, but he kept stressing it, I believe in an attempt to generate a feeling of self righetousness and responsbility amongst the med school class. Then at the end, he presents a group of different drugs, of which Zyban is one of them. I wish I could go on about this lecture, but I really must sleep now. However, I do not like the idea of corporate enttities encroaching on the sancitty of the classroom. There is a place for everything, and that is not it.

By the way, I was about to go to sleep and instead stayed up extra 20 min just now watching the shockwave WW2.5 from previous post.