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What is all this hooha, after all, about the title?Posted on June 3, 2008 9:21 AM • 6 Comments •
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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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Internal Medicine:
It doesn't really matter
No one likes to think that just showing up is as good as their best intellectual effort.Posted on October 29, 2007 10:11 AM • 4 Comments •
Another promising idea in HIV prevention dies
Sad news from the HIV prevention front: trials of an experimental vaccine against HIV have been suspended in the wake of an interim data analysis suggesting it's not really effective.Posted on September 26, 2007 8:59 AM • 1 Comments •
Resident education
Although some of the words in the below image of the board might be a little fuzzy, I promise you, many of them are hilarious.Posted on September 25, 2007 9:08 AM • 3 Comments •
Patients affect us in this way
When my patients cry--and they do, often--I sit down. When Dr. Leaky cried, I stood up.Posted on September 15, 2007 10:03 AM • 7 Comments •
Up to me
Running a resident team on the general medicine wards is not a simple thing, especially at this time of year.Posted on August 8, 2007 8:44 AM • 11 Comments •
Normal-people problems
I was right about addiction: there's no way I could treat it on my own.Posted on July 31, 2007 10:04 AM • 3 Comments •
Simple steps
One of the biggest differences between me and my intern is that I am used to making mistakes.Posted on July 4, 2007 8:05 AM • 2 Comments •
A little touchy to ask
A couple of weeks ago, a study appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that patients admitted to hospitals with heart attacks on weekends had higher mortality than similar patients admitted on weekdays.Posted on April 10, 2007 2:33 AM • 4 Comments •
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