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BECOMING A PHYSICIAN Previous Volume 355:979-981 September 7, 2006 Number 10 Next

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"What happened?" the patient asked. She was coming out of anesthesia after six hours of surgery. A weary resident cleaned dried blood and iodine from the skin around the surgical wound on her abdomen. The anesthesiologist had just removed her breathing tube. The patient, to my surprise, was staring straight at me — the medical student. She asked again: "What happened?"

During the previous 6 months, a rapidly expanding abdominal mass had developed. Early in her surgery, a frozen section had been sent to the laboratory, and 20 minutes later a voice over the intercom had confirmed what the surgeons . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Mr. Brody is a fourth-year medical student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.

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