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I tried to focus on the needle I was moving in and out of her back. Wasn't I in the exact space where I needed to be?Posted on June 27, 2007 9:41 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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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Hematology-Oncology:
The new black
I just finished a rotation in pediatric hematology and oncology, where almost all of the kids I was taking care of had cancer. Most had leukemia or lymphoma with prognoses that were varying degrees of good. A few had other,...Posted on January 14, 2007 3:18 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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There's a 3-year old kid on our pediatric hematology-oncology service who has a high-risk, stage IV, disseminated neuroblastoma: a bad cancer with a terrible prognosis. The mass in his liver is huge, and distends his abdomen way out of proportion...Posted on January 7, 2007 10:16 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
True meaning of Christmas
I'm an M.O.T., so for me, Christmas, meh. It's just kind of another day. I'm neither especially cranky about having to work nights through the holiday, nor is my heart filled with the dazzling light of yuletide joy. But last...Posted on December 25, 2006 9:07 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Looking for loopholes
Maybe it's tuberculosis. Maybe it's Crohn's. Big damn deal. We have medicine for that.Posted on August 1, 2006 9:49 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
