Signout is hospital slang for the transfer of information between patient care teams. It is also the name of this blog, which represents one of the less dysfunctional ways in which Dr. Signout copes with her participation in a U.S. medical residency program.
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July 31, 2006
Category: Codes
I got a spot of blood on my dress today. It happened as I was on my way out of the hospital and heard the code bells ring. I ran, cursing, past two women clutching each other in a hallway,...
Posted by Signout at 11:14 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 27, 2006
Category: Pediatrics
As someone who has never had the pleasure of ignoring a breath-holding spell or a tantrum, I feel like a total jackass telling parents to do it.
Posted by Signout at 10:12 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 21, 2006
Category: Media
If this lady is SERIOUSLY going to suggest that in the face of other preventive options, we choose to rely on the often-imperfectly-used condom for prevention of STD's, especially among adolescents whose access to them is determined by how much their school districts' chieftains love Jesus, then she is just insane.
Posted by Signout at 12:02 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 17, 2006
Category: Scut Monkey
The kind of people who run marathons are the kind of people who are completely OK with being told to work 27 hours in a row without sleep.
Posted by Signout at 10:32 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 10, 2006
The second I walked into the room, this guy was, to me, a container. He had gone the way of all flesh, but for the next twenty minutes, his body would be close enough to living to function as an experimental field.
Posted by Signout at 12:51 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 8, 2006
Category: Internal Medicine
When bad things happen at night, opportunities for learning and doing open up in places where they don't during the well-staffed days. Being a white cloud gets me better rest, but it does not get me experience.
Posted by Signout at 9:33 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 1, 2006
Category: ICU
I hereby pretend to subscribe to whatever logic has made it possible for this man's existence to get to this point, and tomorrow morning, you should, too.
Posted by Signout at 10:25 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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