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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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
Category: Miscellany
Organism vs. system! Chaos vs. method! Octopussy vs. Bond! Acronym vs. multisyllabic word! Mac vs. PC! HIV vs. Phylogenetics! Who will win?
Posted by Signout at 9:19 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2007
Category: Grand Rounds
Pediatric Grand Rounds is up this week at Musings of a Distractible Mind....
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March 24, 2007
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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Category: Grand Rounds
This week's Change of Shift, a collection of nurse blogging, is up.
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March 21, 2007
Category: Grand Rounds
This week's Grand Rounds is up at the misty and magical Blog, MD.
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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
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.
Posted by Signout at 11:06 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 14, 2007
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
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
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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