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Playing Doctor
Robert Isenberg works part-time as a standardized patient, an actor who helps train medical students. Students are aware that SP’s are actors, but they are not allowed to know about their actual identities. All names, and many details, have been changed to protect student privacy.
(NOTE: Some of the column’s articles have been removed by request of the author.)
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August 9, 2011Playing Doctor: Column 13: Number Two
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April 13, 2011Playing Doctor: Column 9: Picture It
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March 8, 2011Playing Doctor: Column 8: The Foot Bone’s Connected to the Talocrural Joint
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January 27, 2011Playing Doctor: Column 6: The Bad News
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December 13, 2010Playing Doctor: Column 4: The Pain Scale
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November 22, 2010Playing Doctor: Column 3: The Curious Case of Trebor Grebnesi
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November 3, 2010Playing Doctor: Column 2: The Joys of Sickness
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