Showdown update: Team Internal Medicine busted for performance enhancement drugs. Team is disqualified from the showdown!

Mandatory testing of all tourney players has found substance abuse in all members of the Internal Medicine team. Specifically, the players tested positive for Norethandrolone, a testoterone derivative, and Showdown officials have ruled that they have no choice but to disqualify the team from the tournament. This means Surgery advances.

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Oh dear. But then, is anyone going to get through the Pestle & Mortar group, or are they all going to be found guilty of substance abuse?

Bob

What?!? Sugar, these are all real.

*flex*

I'll be sad if you're not going for irony, here. I'll be sad, anyway, because I never got to quote this story. Oh well--there's always next year.

That paper looks awesome. A good one for the SCQ journal club.