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BECOMING A PHYSICIAN Previous Volume 354:1114-1115 March 16, 2006 Number 11 Next

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The medical teams convened for a ritual snack break at 10:45 on a recent call night. We ate our ice cream in the far corner of the Moffiteria — as we affectionately call the cafeteria at UCSF's Moffit–Long Hospital — fueling up before the onslaught of admissions. The evening's theme: funniest beeper pages in the middle of the night.

"I once got this page from a nurse," said an intern. "`Doctor, your patient is covered in ants.'" The table erupted in laughter. Apparently, the patient had come in off the streets and brought the ants with him. They crawled out . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Ms. Sobel is a fourth-year medical student at the University of California, San Francisco.

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