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Clerk's Notes 3

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> Subjective       Umm... What the hell just happened.          My two months in Internal Medicine is up and I hardly got to document it. Heck, my last post was about the one day off I got. Looking back on everything that's happened between now and my last entry, I have so many regrets for not writing sooner.        I'm sorry.        I've been saying that word a lot lately, more often in these past two months than I've ever said my whole life.       I say it to almost every doctor I work with, right before saying something I shouldn't even be sorry about.  Sorry doc, may I just ask a question? Sorry doc, may I get an initial read? Sorry doc, our patient in 4A still has difficulty breathing even after nebulizing.  These are the "light" sorry's; I throw them out indiscriminately and they carry no weight. They are a mere concretization of my place in the hospital hierarchy:  Doctor, I am sorry that I, a lowly clerk, have the audacity to ev