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Out-of-body experiences of a medical resident

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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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Grand Rounds schedule

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


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Medicine & Health:

Change my story

"What the fuck is overlay?"

Something to do with this

Hey, look! A book about residency.

I don't have much of a moral

The whole affair sticks in me like a splinter. The decisions I made, I did not make alone.

Boob tube

Well-intentioned and spectacularly hip, yes. Good for your 1-year-old, not so much.

It doesn't really matter

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

The switch [encore edition]

Signout submits this sweet memory of cluelessness from the archives, then hastily returns to picking sand out from between her toes.

Behavior that persists [encore edition]

Signout is going away for a much-needed week or so at the beach. Meanwhile, please enjoy some of her greatest hits [in her own mind].

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.

Sometimes, women's bodies just are

In the U.S., it's normative to find female breasts sexay.

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