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Residents and Patients: What Our Language Tells Us
Joshua Hauser, MD
JAMA. 1998;280:1226.
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"A VERY busy night, and no one was spared pain, with 7 to 8 admissions each on GMS and painful unit transfers. Thank you for all your hard work. The patients certainly appreciate it.
I have 2 potential unit players already. Please send me bump lists when you can."—e-mail message from an admitting physician
When I opened my e-mail and saw this note from a fellow resident, it seemed perfectly normal. It was the usual update from the night before that we send to each other when we rotate as admitting physicians. It is how we keep each other posted, tell the story of the previous night, and plan for the day. As usual, I hit the return key to read my next message but then I thought about what I had read. It didn't matter who it was from because it could have been from any . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
University of Chicago
Chicago, Ill
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