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Out-of-body experiences of a medical resident
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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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 •
Category: Internal Medicine
What is all this hooha, after all, about the title?
Posted by Signout at 9:21 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Internal Medicine
"What the fuck is overlay?"
Posted by Signout at 9:10 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Internal Medicine
No one likes to think that just showing up is as good as their best intellectual effort.
Posted by Signout at 10:11 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Internal Medicine
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 by Signout at 8:59 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Internal Medicine
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 by Signout at 9:08 AM • 3 Comments •
When my patients cry--and they do, often--I sit down. When Dr. Leaky cried, I stood up.
Posted by Signout at 10:03 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Internal Medicine
Running a resident team on the general medicine wards is not a simple thing, especially at this time of year.
Posted by Signout at 8:44 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Internal Medicine
I was right about addiction: there's no way I could treat it on my own.
Posted by Signout at 10:04 AM • 3 Comments •
One of the biggest differences between me and my intern is that I am used to making mistakes.
Posted by Signout at 8:05 AM • 2 Comments •
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