We were practicing in the nurses' room, with a few minutes togo before the big performance. My classmate Julie and I ranthrough our lines and critiqued each other. "You have the historyand differential diagnosis down," she said, "but you look halfasleep. Sit up straight, for goodness' sake." I nodded, tryingto remember yet another thing. Then I gave her some advice:"Keep your enthusiasm," I suggested, "but trim the `normocephalic,atraumatic' bit and the other overly detailed physical examfindings."
Curtain time. Costumed in our short white coats, we enteredthe conference room from stage right . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Ms. Sobel is a fourth-year medical student at the University of California, San Francisco, and a contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report.
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