Grand Rounds 3.20

By signout on February 7, 2007.

Grand Rounds 3.20 is up at Tales from the Emergency Room. The focus this week is on the people behind the medicine. (If you ask me, the medicine should watch out, because the people is probably planning to give it an unannounced rectal exam.)

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