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SBselfborder.jpg 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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August 20, 2006

Women behaving badly

Category: Lady time

It's almost as if they were saying that there's nothing that we as health care providers can or should recommend for our dudely patients in this age group-that raping and pillaging while hammered is just what they do.

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August 16, 2006

Tragedy

Category: Navel-gazing

If you want real human tragedy, consider that at 5:45 a.m. today, I was tugging at a grey hair I'd spotted in a hospital bathroom mirror, thinking, "How did I get this old?"

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August 13, 2006

Post-operative complications

Category: Family Dynamics

Mrs. Scrotum is the kind of person who, after she is served lemon butter instead of parsley butter with her lobster at the club, asks to speak with the manager; has the waiter fired; writes a series of angry letters; forms a community coalition; hires a lawyer; and still isn't satisfied after she wins, because it's the principle of the thing.

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August 8, 2006

Broken

Category: Whoopsie

When most doctors choose a course of treatment that fails miserably, they usually feel that they have failed miserably.

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August 1, 2006

Looking for loopholes

Maybe it's tuberculosis. Maybe it's Crohn's. Big damn deal. We have medicine for that.

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