Learn to use a fax machine, and other medical student tips

Before starting third year, we had a week-long course that taught basic skills not learned in our first two years of medical school: suturing, knot tying, injections, note writing, etc.. One critical skill they left out was how to use a fax machine and how to deal with medical record offices.

To outsiders, it probably seems pointless to learn how to operate an archaic communication tool like a fax machine in …

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