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Medical Friendships transcend borders? Reunions WhatApp or Real??

  Today I seek to write about a subject which has been an enigma for me. Medical College friendships is my blog subject.I think our evolution in life from childhood, adolescence and adulthood is an expansion of one's horizons from a small relatively stable circle of similar persons to a larger and diverse circle. While we have school and college friends and the circle is sought to be preserved through alumni circles and such organizations, they have certainly not lasted. This may be on account of us living insular protected lives under the gaze of parents who tended to ensure that we sought the company of literally people like us and if there was diversity it was stifled by selection bias as most schools were chosen by our parents and collated to ensure that exposure to unwanted and perceived harmful influences was avoided. If chance led us to a different personality or type, it was described as an aberration and there was a kind of adult intervention to nip in the bud any differen