do you believe the screen?

Medicine, like most things, is not the same as it appears in movies or on TV. Just as no writer, ever, has typed the words "The End," placed the page on top of a perfectly-aligned stack of paper beside a typewriter, and immediately mailed the manuscript off for publication (possibly leaning back, sighing, and cracking their knuckles first), there are many things I've never done or seen, despite being in medicine for nearly 30 years. Based on TV and movies, however, you'd think they happened all the time.

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