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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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Unpack the madness
Category: Medical Education
Professionalism in medicine has come to represent a romantic fantasy--and worse, we've invented that fantasy, ourselves.
Posted by Signout at 10:00 AM • 9 Comments •
September 11, 2008
Please to enjoy
Category: Internal Medicine
While I slowly scrape together some original Signout blather on one of my favorite subjects, please to enjoy this terrific post by Dr. Rob about why much of the crap patients go through is not the fault of their providers....
Posted by Signout at 10:59 AM • 3 Comments •
September 9, 2008
Go read
Category: Media
There was a very nice piece in the New York Times yesterday about an oncology nurse's first code. Go read!...
Posted by Signout at 10:45 AM • 5 Comments •
September 2, 2008
Flurry
Category: Grand Rounds
Anyone wishing to consume some tasty medical writing around the theme of "education" should have a peek at this week's Grand Rounds at A Chronic Dose. Laurie has kindly included not one, but two of Signout's snowflakes in her recent...
Posted by Signout at 9:50 AM • 1 Comments •
September 1, 2008
Reasonable for us to judge
Category: Adolescent Medicine
John McCain got Sarah Palin's daughter pregnant.
Posted by Signout at 5:16 PM • 11 Comments •
What makes it OK
Category: Navel-gazing
Every now and then, I get email from pre-med types who are having a lot of trouble deciding whether to go to medical school.
Posted by Signout at 8:42 AM • 6 Comments •
