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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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March 28, 2007

HIV vs. Phylogenetics

Category: Miscellany

Organism vs. system! Chaos vs. method! Octopussy vs. Bond! Acronym vs. multisyllabic word! Mac vs. PC! HIV vs. Phylogenetics! Who will win?

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March 27, 2007

Distractible

Category: Grand Rounds

Pediatric Grand Rounds is up this week at Musings of a Distractible Mind....

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March 24, 2007

Need to be seen

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The first phone call had come about a month ago, on a day I wasn't in clinic. The phone nurse had left me a message: Rosie's mother wants to know why she keeps turning in circles."

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Change of shift

Category: Grand Rounds

This week's Change of Shift, a collection of nurse blogging, is up.

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March 21, 2007

Misty and magical

Category: Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds is up at the misty and magical Blog, MD.

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Thinkers and writers

Category: Media

The "Thinking Blogs" meme gives me the opportunity to give props to several excellent thinkers and writers who routinely send my tiny brain into spasms of glee.

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March 18, 2007

Beginning to take the shape

Category: Internal Medicine

On Friday, I did something I never thought I'd have the guts to do: I looked a patient in the eye and told her I was not going to treat her pain. It was hard.

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March 14, 2007

Brackets and everything

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This is maybe my favorite and/or the most aggressively nerdy thing on ScienceBlogs so far: it's smoking hot, one-on-one, science competition in the abstract.

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March 13, 2007

You read

Category: Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds is up at Scienceroll. You read, you like! Addended 11:20 pm: I keep forgetting to post about the excellent Change of Shift, a biweekly (I think) carnival of nurse blogging....

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March 12, 2007

The certainty

Category: Scut Monkey

It is a spectacle most powerful for the sheer simultaneousness of the reactions it elicits. The vindication for some, the crushing devastation of ego for others--I still shudder when I recall the faces in my medical school's big auditorium on Match Day.

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