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Joseph A. Capriotti, MD
New York, NY
jcapriotti@nyee.edu

JAMA. 2004;292:1017-1018.

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Occasionally you might try to sneak out between patients to survey the waiting room. Clinic day is never pleasant for the surgical intern, and you always hope that maybe no one else will show up. Maybe there's a blizzard and everyone decides it's just too dangerous to go outside. Usually not, though, and you peek through the Staff Only door around the corner from the physicians' restroom and the free coffee and count the afternoon's lineup. Every hour or so you may reassess the arrangement of comfortable patients in their cushioned chairs. Eighteen more. Twelve. Seven, then home. Clinic isn't unbearable, but it only resembles what you think of when you think of medicine and try to remember why you wanted to become a physician in the first place. There is no real detective work, no mystery. Almost everyone comes referred with CT scans and full . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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