Grand Rounds 3.6

By tsmith on October 31, 2006.

Today's Halloween edition of Grand Rounds is up over at Doctor HÃ©bert's Medical Gumbo. Poe fans, rejoice! (Or, wince, I suppose, if you don't like people ripping off Poe...)

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