The main reason we're still in a situation where the numbers are going up is the relative youth of the Canadian population.

The American ideal is youth /handsome, empty youth.

That goes for youth leagues to the adult leagues. This place gives everyone a place to practice regardless of the weather.

It occured to me that we will never be young again.

Youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.

All too frequently I have been told by admissions deans that the reason they chose not to interview an applicant with high grades, strong MCAT scores and considerable research experience is that the applicant had no extensive exposure to patients,