Tips for medical students: “First, you should address everyone as ‘ma’am’ or ‘sir.’ That includes the nurses, the techs, and all of the residents and attendings. For some reason, surgeons believe that medicine should be run like the military. Granted, none of them had ever served in the armed forces, but I certainly heard a lot of attendings say, ‘This is just like the military.'”
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