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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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July 31, 2007

P.S.

Category: Grand Rounds

P.S. I love Highly Trained Monkey, and consider myself extremely remiss for not posting the link to the latest Change of Shift at her blog. Enjoy!...

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Normal-people problems

Category: Internal Medicine

I was right about addiction: there's no way I could treat it on my own.

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July 22, 2007

Like a glove

Category: Codes

I'm an upper-level resident now, and that means that when I find a situation requiring resuscitation, I'm expected to know how to manage it.

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July 17, 2007

I have shilled

Category: Miscellany

It's unbelievable, the company I somehow manage to keep in this blog neighborhood: Rob Knop, one of my co-Sciencebloggers was one of the cosmologists awarded a portion of this year's Gruber Prize in Cosmology.

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July 12, 2007

More more more

Category: Navel-gazing

Although the ScienceBlogs interviewers call me elusive, I insist that I really am slow-moving, easy to spot, and marvelously accessible, as demonstrated by the thirty pages I received while my intern was in clinic this afternoon.

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The rest of it

Category: Navel-gazing

As I struggle to wrap my head around everything that's happening with every patient on my team, demonstrating what I actually do is much harder than it used to be.

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July 7, 2007

By we, I mean you

Category: Miscellany

Every now and then, I get email from aspiring physicians who wish to drink from my fount of wisdom with respect to Choosing a Life Direction. I find this hilarious.

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July 4, 2007

Simple steps

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One of the biggest differences between me and my intern is that I am used to making mistakes.

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July 2, 2007

A way unusual for me

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Yesterday, I asked him to tell me about his wife. "She's like you," he said. I demurred. What did he mean?

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