It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone

[dhildhildhil]

We are forever presenting patients to our colleagues, almost never questioning the mechanisms and motivations that permeate these oral exchanges-and sometimes send them awry. By some ancient right we assume authority to retell the patient's story at the bedside, not in our own words but in a highly stylized medical code: "Mrs Dalloway is a 51-year-

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[vvvaudevillian]

This somehow rings so true for legalese as well. beautiful.