3
03
2004
Medical school for dummies
I was standing at a downtown traffic light this morning when I noticed that the person standing next to me had a book under her arm. The title: Clinical Pharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple.
It’s comforting to know that publishers are doing their part to make sure that a medical degree is not out of reach for dummies. 
The dummy who started the “X for Dummies” book series is an MIT graduate who has gave to his alma mater the largest gift to any university to date ($350m). It is earmarked for brain research. Perhaps he wants the primary text to be “Brain Surgery for Dummies”.