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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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To view commentary on older Signout posts, please visit my old blog.


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Internal Medicine:

Any other name

What is all this hooha, after all, about the title?

Change my story

"What the fuck is overlay?"

It doesn't really matter

No one likes to think that just showing up is as good as their best intellectual effort.

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.

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.

Patients affect us in this way

When my patients cry--and they do, often--I sit down. When Dr. Leaky cried, I stood up.

Up to me

Running a resident team on the general medicine wards is not a simple thing, especially at this time of year.

Normal-people problems

I was right about addiction: there's no way I could treat it on my own.

Simple steps

One of the biggest differences between me and my intern is that I am used to making mistakes.

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.

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