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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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Adolescent Medicine:

Reasonable for us to judge

John McCain got Sarah Palin's daughter pregnant.

What logic we can get

Most normal people, I imagine, are asked to understand that good people make mistakes maybe once a day. In the emergency department, providers are asked to understand this about 10 times an hour. It gets old fast.

Abortion sucks

It's hard to overestimate the distance between most lawmakers and the fifteen-year old girls with skinny hands and ruined lives.

Behavior that persists

Precious had been hospitalized many times before. She knew what worried doctors, and early on, she made damn sure we worried about her.

It can't just be me

After the thighs are gone and the belly is flat, it's about seeing the scale needle continue to move downward; demonstrating how much control you really have; putting one over on your stupid parents; proving yourself a winner at something.

What makes you worth loving

For most of my adolescence, all I wanted was for someone to sit me down and say, "Your body isn't what makes you worth loving," but it didn't come-not for years.

Completely freaking irresponsible

If this lady is SERIOUSLY going to suggest that in the face of other preventive options, we choose to rely on the often-imperfectly-used condom for prevention of STD's, especially among adolescents whose access to them is determined by how much their school districts' chieftains love Jesus, then she is just insane.

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