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Getting Things Done: Cough Quite Productive Today

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HUNTSVILLE, AL - Checking off its To Do list like it's nobody else's business, patient Reynold Baker's cough is happy to report that it...
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Med Student’s Brown Nose Metastasizes to Liver, Lungs

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CHICAGO, IL - Despite the repeated warnings from numerous residents and attendings to alter the trajectory of his health and well-being, the brown nose of 26-year-old...
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Report: Medical School Limiting the Number of Creepy Applicants to Cut Down on Creepy...

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OMAHA, NE – Creighton University led the nation last year in normal to above normal applicants.  "We have a pretty good applicant pool when...
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Attending Loses Perspective, Can’t Find it Anywhere

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NASHVILLE, TN - "I swear I just had it," muttered 57-year-old vascular surgeon Tom Hatfield as he feverishly searched for his perspective under stacks...
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Applicant Deemed Overqualified for Medical School

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PHILADELPHIA, PA - An especially qualified applicant to medical school was distraught at finding 25 identical rejection emails in his inbox on March 15....
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Medical Students Excited to Volunteer for Studies of Ebola Transmission

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SACRAMENTO, CA - In the wake of the CDC’s announcement that we still do not fully understand exactly how the Ebola virus is transmitted, several...
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“New Intern” Added to Patient’s Problem List

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Joining the ranks of “Congestive Heart Failure,” “Chronic Kidney Disease III,” and “Mood Disorder (Unspecified),” local patient Summer Days’ inpatient active problem list has...
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‘Despacito’ Doubles Spanish Vocabulary for Non-Spanish-Speaking Health Care Staff

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Health care staff across the country are praising the song “Despacito,” Justin Bieber’s hit collaboration with Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, for enhancing interactions...
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Physical Exam Tips: The Abdomen

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Two things are needed for a spectacular abdominal exam: luck and an abdomen.  The following review focuses on different aspects of the abdominal exam,...
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Poll: What Do You Hope to Find in Your Patient’s Rectum?

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In this month's GomerBlog poll, we asked over 10,000,000 health care providers who were about to perform a rectal exam what they were hoping...