Article by Ken Murray.

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Playing Doctor is an article from Slate by Emily Yoffe about her experience being a standardized patient, actors who are given a hypothetical medical history and are trained to act accordingly as patients so that medical students can practice their clinical skills.

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Anonymous Doc. Overheard by a doctor (resident) type stuff with a sprinkling of opinion pieces and other anecdotes. Quite scary.