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(To the student who, after my lecture on Friday, asked me for the answers of previous MCQs.)

Dear student,

I appreciate your effort in collecting previous examination questions and trying to study them so early in the academic year - not to say putting up courage to ask a malicious nephrologist like me for the answers. However, your approach is entirely wrong. Medicine is learnt by seeing patients and reading textbooks. Lecture handouts have very little value, and past paper is a drug - it should only be taken under prescription, and is distinctly prone to be abused.

If you think drug is too mean an analogy of past paper, I consider it as a supplement, like all those milk and powder formula we give for our malnourished patients. Yes, it does help to improve the body built, but, because it is so concentrated, you may end up having diarrhea and absorb nothing. More importantly, these supplemental formula should not be consumed as the only source of nutrition - unless you are those bed-bound elderly subjects who require tube feeding.

And they won't live long with such a diet.

Sincerely