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"I didn't know how to respond, so I said nothing." 

11/17/2015

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During my medicine rotation as a third year medical student, I was receiving sign-out from a night intern about a patient. She was an older patient who was admitted for syncope. As the intern signed her out, he described, "she's also complaining of pain, but you know those elderly Latino women, they're always complaining about pain everywhere." I didn't know how to respond, so I said nothing.
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