Shock
That she was breathing independently was surprising enough, but that she was completely lucid just seemed improbable.
Posted by Signout at 10:17 PM • 3 Comments •
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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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January 28, 2007
Different conversation
Category: ICU
Back in October, I admitted a patient to the general medicine service with a three-week history of abdominal pain and progressively yellowing eyes. She was a large, pleasant, quiet black woman who was almost always accompanied by her husband, a...
Posted by Signout at 5:39 PM • 9 Comments •
January 23, 2007
Grand Rounds
Category: Grand Rounds
At about this time last week, I asked for bloggers' thoughts on the interface of scientific evidence with health and health care. In an unscientific poll of the blogosphere, about 40% of you gave this theme the finger, while about...
Posted by Signout at 6:00 AM • 15 Comments •
January 21, 2007
Deadline
Category: Grand Rounds
Don't forget: The deadline for submitting to this week's Grand Rounds is midnight tonight. Please note--as addended at the bottom of the original announcement--that although there is indeed a theme for this Grand Rounds, non-thematic posts will most certainly be...
Posted by Signout at 7:50 PM • 1 Comments •
January 17, 2007
For those of you new
Category: Navel-gazing
Perhaps it's because I'm in training, or perhaps it's because I'm incredibly neurotic, but it never seems that what we do in medicine is without some subtext. A guy getting an MRI is rarely just a guy getting an MRI--there's always symptomatology, pathophysiology, or a social or emotional context to explore.
Posted by Signout at 5:26 PM • 5 Comments •
Have a cookie
Category: Navel-gazing
Further proving the existence of God (just kidding! Hi, neighbors!), I am now writing under the ScienceBlogs umbrella. This is terribly exciting for me, and I look forward to being part of this formidable community of thinkers and writers. To...
Posted by Signout at 11:24 AM • 10 Comments •
January 16, 2007
Tell us
Category: Grand Rounds
This Grand Rounds, let's talk about proof. I want your perspectives on the interface of scientific evidence with health and health care.
Posted by Signout at 5:33 PM • 1 Comments •
January 14, 2007
The new black
Category: Hematology-Oncology
I just finished a rotation in pediatric hematology and oncology, where almost all of the kids I was taking care of had cancer. Most had leukemia or lymphoma with prognoses that were varying degrees of good. A few had other,...
Posted by Signout at 3:18 AM • 1 Comments •
January 7, 2007
Voice
Category: Hematology-Oncology
There's a 3-year old kid on our pediatric hematology-oncology service who has a high-risk, stage IV, disseminated neuroblastoma: a bad cancer with a terrible prognosis. The mass in his liver is huge, and distends his abdomen way out of proportion...
Posted by Signout at 10:16 AM • 0 Comments •
January 4, 2007
Behavior that persists
Category: Adolescent Medicine
Precious had been hospitalized many times before. She knew what worried doctors, and early on, she made damn sure we worried about her.
Posted by Signout at 1:39 AM • 0 Comments •
