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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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It seems almost excessively reasonable to consider familial resources and the self-interest of potentially responsible parties when deciding whether a developmentally disabled person should have contraception. Sure, reproduction is a right, but is it really that inalienable?

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Posted on May 2, 2007 9:33 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

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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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Posted on March 24, 2007 11:19 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

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During my first week of medical school, we watched a video that documented the life and death of a child diagnosed in utero with neurologically devastating spina bifida. The girl's parents had been aware of her prognosis long before her...

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Posted on December 4, 2006 11:11 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

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