take a good look at the diploma on the wall:

as most of you know by now I work for a large medical school located in the fair city of New York. (which shall remain nameless). Much like that episode of Seinfeld, we run these clinical exams where the students interview standardized patients (aka actors trained to play the role of a patient). One of the cases we do involves the students needing to take a sexual history of a 17 year old boy who is at the dr.s for a physical he needs for a lifegurarding job. yesterday, we ran a slew of these and i had the pleasure of sitting in on the following interview.

Medical Student: Hi. How are you today? I hear you want to be a lifeguard...
Standardized Patient: Yeah, I do, it seems like a cool summer job.
Medical Student: So do you masturbate?

seriously. i can't make this shit up. that was exactly the first three sentences of the interview. i am slowly collecting a list of names that if i ever see on a diploma when i walk into a doctors office, will have me turning on my heels and walking back out. god help us all if this is the future of medicine.