From JAMA: A piece of my mind. Remarkably wise

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23423412

JAMA. 2013 Feb 20;309(7):669-70. doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.196.

A piece of my mind. Remarkably wise.

Olson AP, Tierney LM.

Source

Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, USA. olso5714@umn.edu

As one walks through the brightly lit, drably painted corridors of a typical US teaching hospital around 10 o’clock in the morning on any day of the week, any week of the year, one finds himself or herself tossed about in a tumultuous sea of the English language. Most buffeting winds come from senior residents, droning from within their white coats as they present cases to senior physicians:

“Cardiovascular-wise, examination was unremarkable.”

“The patient is in no acute distress, vitals within normal limits.”