It was the beginning of the school year in 2010 when Victoria Stuss and Brian Bones first took notice of each other. The two were attending a Georgetown University School of Medicine orientation mixer at Guards, a now-defunct college haunt, when Brian decided to introduce himself.

I actually knew Tori lived really close to me, basically on my street, so I went up to her and her friend and was like, Hey, why arent we besties yet? Which is totally awkward, but it was just me being a friendly newbie, I guess, Brian says with a laugh.

In their first year, the two had all of their lecture-style classes together, but Victoria says she didnt see much of him because he wasnt exactly the going-to-class-every-day type.

I definitely knew he existed, Victoria says. Id see him out all the time, and I remember thinking he was tall and funny, but we never really had a solid conversation until second semester.

Brian invited Victoria and her friends to a happy hour of sorts at McFaddens in February, and the two were able to learn a bit more about each other. Brian no longer thought of Victoria as just a quiet girl, and Victoria no longer thought of Brian as just a slacker. After spending the rest of their first year on friendly terms, Brian decided to make his move when they got back to campus in the fall.

He took her out to Mon Ami Gabi in Bethesda, where, even though they had been friends for more than a year, they still had first-date jitters. The two relied on their separate medical school experiences to lead the conversation, and they quickly found out that they were undeniably different students with polar opposite approaches to studying, which ended up helping them through the next two years of school together.

We were studying for the same tests, but we were studying in very different ways, with me being more big picture and Tori wanting to fill in the little details. But we have always had very similar successes, Brian says. Which led us to create a name for the two of us while we went through this stressful school experience Team Bones.

They considered themselves official by that December and began an extremely encouraging and valuable relationship. With medical school as demanding as it is, they started leaning on each other for support through the most difficult parts of their academic careers, such as 80-plus-hour weeks working at a hospital and grueling finals periods.

By our third year, I was thinking about what I really wanted out of life, outside of hospital life, Brian says. And quickly during that time, I realized what I wanted, and it wasnt career goals, it was about being with Tori and coming home to a person and place I loved.

After about a year as supportive teammates on Team Bones, Brian and Victoria started to talk marriage. In December 2012, Brian visited Victorias family in New Jersey and was granted permission to propose from her father. On Dec. 30, they visited the Old Post Office and climbed to the top, but Brian quickly realized that the miserable and frigid evening was not the right time, so he waited until the next day, New Years Eve.

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Washington State University decided to explore building its own medical school because the University of Washington wasnt moving fast enough to expand its medical program, WSU President Elson Floyd said Thursday.

In a meeting before The Seattle Times editorial board, Floyd said the state has an urgent need to graduate more doctors and encourage them to practice primary medicine in rural areas particularly on the east side of the state. A WSU-run medical school, located in Spokane, could make that happen.

How much longer do we need to wait for the UW to expand, asked Floyd, noting that hundreds of Washington students are turned away from the UW program because it doesnt have enough room.Theres an urgency other states are outpacing the state of Washington.

But UW officials say the university is already on track to grow its medical-school program in Spokane, which it runs jointly with WSU. If it gets money from the Legislature next year to double the number studying there, Spokane will eventually have a medical program with about 320 students, said Margaret Shepherd, director of state relations for the UW.

We are effectively proposing a four-year medical school in Spokane, with all of the benefits and none of the added administrative costs, she said. The expansion would cost $1 million the first year and eventually require about $6 million of additional annual funding.

The UW has operated the sole public medical-school program in a five-state region for decades, bringing students here from Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho to study with Washington students in Seattle. The program is called WWAMI an acronym formed by the first letter of the five states. Out-of-state medical students spend some of their time studying at the UW, then return to their home states to finish their training.

(Washington also has a private, nonprofit osteopathic medical school in Yakima, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences.)

In Spokane, the UW has been working in partnership with WSU to expand the WWAMI program so that a class of 40 Eastern Washington students can do all of their medical training in Spokane. The number of students whose training takes place entirely in Spokane would grow to 80 students per year if a legislative request is approved next year, Shepherd said.

Medical school takes four years to complete, so if the request was approved, 320 students would eventually do all of their training in Spokane.

Earlier this year, WSU commissioned a privately funded study to see whether it made sense for WSU to create its own medical school. The report is due at the end of June.

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ANTIOCH -- In a case being closely followed by charter school advocates and education administrators throughout the state, a Contra Costa Superior Court judge is expected to soon decide the fate of dueling efforts for control of Dozier-Libbey Medical High School.

The decision could reverberate far beyond Antioch, changing the playing field in how districts respond to efforts to turn their schools into charters.

Antioch Unified officials threw a monkey wrench into the typical process last month when it filed its own charter petition for the medical-themed magnet school to thwart a teacher-led petition to convert it into an independent charter -- a novel move for California that has befuddled and concerned many who have followed charter school-related efforts for years.

"I've never seen such a case where a district is explicitly countering with a bid to take over a school and with such a deep and rigid line in the sand," said Bruce Fuller, a public policy and education professor at UC Berkeley.

The school district, concerned that its rejection of the teachers' charter petition will be overturned on appeal, is proposing to turn Dozier-Libbey into a dependent charter. Under that scenario, the school would establish an advisory committee and receive a dedicated funding stream, as is the case with traditional charters, but continue to be governed by the school district. Student-athletes could also continue to compete on athletic teams at the district's other high schools, as is currently the case.

If the teachers prevail with their conversion effort, the new charter school would take control of its own operations with no district input.

The two sides will be in court Monday morning.

Judge Laurel Brady is being asked to determine the legality of the district's petition and a request from proponents of the independent charter for a temporary restraining order to "maintain the status quo which preceded the controversy," including using the school logo, facilities and curriculum.

The district filed a response to the injunction request, saying it must prepare for the next school year, and has already taken several steps toward converting the school into a dependent charter.

Charter advocates worry about what will happen if Antioch Unified's strategy succeeds, with some saying it could serve as a blueprint on how to thwart charter petitions and undercut state law.

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A Lakeland High School student is at odds with her school over an article on medical marijuana that she wants to write and include in a school publication.

Channel Nine anchor Jorge Estevez talked with the student and found out how she plans on fighting her cause.

Abbey Laine said she loves to contribute articles for her school magazine in Lakeland.

"The more you do a story the more you know about that particular thing," Laine said.

But her recent idea for Lakeland High school's magazine, the Bagpipe, on medicinal marijuana was turned down by her teacher.

"(They said) it would be inappropriate and unacceptable," said Laine.

"To write that in the school newspaper," Estevez asked.

"Yes," she replied.

But writing the article that would have taken a look at the medicinal benefits of marijuana is personal. When Laine was 2-year-old she was diagnosed with cancer.

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Community leaders in Spokane want a medical school based here, but they avoided choosing sides on which university should runit.

That was one impression coming out of the first meeting of a task force convened Monday by the University ofWashington.

The task force will consider the future of UWs five-state medical education system called WWAMI, for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana andIdaho.

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Community leaders in Spokane want a medical school based here, but they avoided choosing sides on which university should runit.

That was one impression coming out of the first meeting of a task force convened Monday by the University ofWashington.

The task force will consider the future of UWs five-state medical education system called WWAMI, for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana andIdaho.

The developing program The Next Generation WWAMI plan is intended to create a 21st-century curriculum for medical education, to begin in2015. Instead of first- through fourth-year medical education, students will embark on a scientific foundation phase with greater emphasis on clinicalcare.

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University of California regents agreed to pay $10 million to the former chairman of UCLA's orthopedic surgery department, who had alleged that the well-known medical school allowed doctors to take industry payments that may have compromised patient care.

The settlement reached Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court came just before closing arguments were due to begin in a whistleblower-retaliation case brought by Dr. Robert Pedowitz, 54, a surgeon who was recruited to UCLA in 2009 to run the orthopedic surgery department.

In 2012, the surgeon sued UCLA, the UC regents, fellow surgeons and senior university officials, alleging they failed to act on his complaints about widespread conflicts of interest and later retaliated against him for speaking up.

UCLA denied Pedowitz's allegations, and officials said they found no wrongdoing by faculty and no evidence that patient care was jeopardized. But the UC system paid him anyway, saying it wanted to avoid the "substantial expense and inconvenience" of further litigation.

As department chairman, Pedowitz testified, he became concerned about colleagues who had financial ties to medical-device makers or other companies that could unduly influence their care of patients or taint important medical research.

He also alleged that UCLA looked the other way because the university stood to benefit financially from the success of medical products or drugs developed by its doctors.

One of the orthopedic surgeons that Pedowitz complained about testified at trial about receiving $250,000 in consulting fees in 2008 from device maker Medtronic. In memos to university officials, Pedowitz raised concerns about the financial dealings of other doctors as well.

Inside the courtroom Tuesday, Pedowitz sat in the front row with his wife and daughter as the judge told jurors that a settlement had been reached. He said he felt vindicated by the outcome.

"These are serious issues that patients should be worried about," Pedowitz said in an interview. "These problems exist in the broader medical system and they are not restricted to UCLA."

The seven-week trial in downtown Los Angeles offered a rare glimpse into those potential conflicts at a time when there is growing government scrutiny of industry payments to doctors.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. Parents and physicians concerned about an increase in adolescents' marijuana use following the legalization of medical marijuana can breathe a sigh of relief. According to a new study at Rhode Island Hospital which compared 20 years worth of data from states with and without medical marijuana laws, legalizing the drug did not lead to increased use among adolescents. The study is published online in advance of print in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

"Any time a state considers legalizing medical marijuana, there are concerns from the public about an increase in drug use among teens," said principal investigator Esther Choo, M.D., an attending physician in the department of emergency medicine at Rhode Island Hospital. "In this study, we examined 20 years worth of data, comparing trends in self-reported adolescent marijuana use between states with medical marijuana laws and neighboring states without the laws, and found no increase in marijuana use that could be attributed to the law."

Choo continued, "This adds to a growing body of literature published over the past three years that is remarkably consistent in demonstrating that state medical marijuana policies do not have a downstream effect on adolescent drug use, as we feared they might."

Currently, medical marijuana is legal in 21 states and the District of Columbia.

The study examined a nationally representative sample of high school students. The data showed that past-month marijuana use was common, at nearly 21 percent of the study population. However, there were no statistically significant differences in marijuana use before and after policy changes in any state pairing.

"Researchers should continue to monitor and measure marijuana use," Choo said. "But we hope that this information will provide some level of reassurance to policymakers, physicians, and parents about medical marijuana laws."

Choo's principal affiliation is Rhode Island Hospital, and she also holds an academic appointment as an assistant professor of emergency medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

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Austin -- The landscape is definitelychanging in the southeastern portion of the University of Texas atAustin campus with the addition of a new teaching hospital andmedical school starting to take shape.

On Monday, April 21 the Dell Medical School launched its construction.

Surrounded by construction equipment, supporters of the new Dell Medical School couldnt contain their exuberance.

To actually be here and launch is a very satisfying moment, said Bill Powers, University of Texas president. Its a big day.

Powers and others say it's not just a big day for the University of Texas its an even bigger day for the community because along with the new teaching hospital, the Dell Medical School will give residents access to better health care.

Im inspired by the voters who accepted a vision, said Kirk Watson, a Texas senator from Austin. They acted on it, and were giving them a return on that investment.

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Two Worcester medical experts who work with adolescent substance abusers are expressing appreciation for a study released last week by researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, and published in the Journal of Neuroscience that found abnormalities in the brains of young adults who regularly smoked marijuana.

The study suggests that recreational marijuana use may lead to previously unidentified brain changes, highlighting the need for more research to understand the long-term effects of low to moderate marijuana use on the brain.

Dr. Edward Boyer, a toxicologist at the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, said the study supported a clinical observation that had been made for a long time that adolescents into their 20s who smoke pot even moderately are at risk of "honest to goodness" consequences with neurocognitive development.

"Even if you don't like the doctor talk," he said, "it kind of proves what we've already known that if you smoke a lot of dope you wind up being a stoner."

Patrice M. Muchowski, vice president of clinical services at AdCare Hospital in Worcester, said she found it interesting that the study found some evidence of differences in adolescents who would not be identified as problem users.

Any time young people use substances that have impact on their brain, she added, "The concern is where is it going from there?"

Nearly three dozen medical marijuana facilities are set to open statewide this summer, and Ms. Muchowski said this is a concern for the substance abuse field because it will increase access, which will likely increase use.

Meanwhile, others assailed the study, which was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Dr. Joseph W. McSherry, a neurologist and University of Vermont professor, referred to it as "jibberish from NIDA."

Dr. McSherry said there's old research that shows London taxicab drivers have large map areas in their brains, while musicians have unusually large areas around their finger motor cortex, and this minimizes the marijuana study.

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From vision to reality, workers broke ground on the Dell Medical School at the University Medical Center Monday.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been pledged for the construction and operation of the school.

Senator Kirk Watson is already thinking about the opportunities it could bring about.

"(It will be) an educational transformation in the opportunities that will be available not just at the University of Texas, but also in the schools and colleges across our communities," he said.

Before that can happen there are still plenty of obstacles. They have to build the school, design the curriculum, hire a staff and get accreditation.

"We are well on the way and now the tasks are big, but we know what they are, and we will be able to do them," University of Texas-Austin President Bill Powers said.

The university is building three buildings right nowa research facility, an educational building and an administrative building as well as parking.

Seton pledged $295 million to build a teaching hospital across the street from the medical school. That hospital will replace the aging University Medical Center Brackenridge.

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