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Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2003;129:814.

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IT WAS a tired old joke that I had heard many times in medical school. But honest to Pete, this is what she said when I asked her what brought her to the hospital: "The bus carried me."

This was not what I wanted to hear. I was an overextended surgical intern, trying to work up all the evening's new admissions. And now I would have to perform a complete history and physical without a chief complaint. By and large, I never had to worry about eliciting the chief complaint from patients because, by the time I saw them, they were already on the OR schedule for surgery the next day. But my patient, Rose, was not on that list.

I made a few phone calls, and found that Rose was on the radiology schedule for an arteriogram the next day. I was then able to focus my efforts on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Gayle Woodson, MD
Department of Otolaryngology
University of Florida
PO Box 100264
Gainesville, FL 32610-0624
(e-mail: ktrgrew@aol.com)