Clinical Guide The Nerd's Guide to Pre-Rounding Table of Contents Acknowledgements These notes were generated based on my own experiences, as well as discussions and experiences shared with various of my peers. In particular, I’d like to thank Denise Albert-Grimaldo, Jim Ashe, Milana Boukhman, Fred Cirillo, Creighton Don, Leila Ettefagh, Kim Freeman, Marcel Gemperli, Stephanie Green, Eliza Humphreys, Ali Iranmanesh, Debbie Kahn, Tim Karaca, Ann Kim, Jae Kim, Naveen Kumar, Herprit Mahal, Matt Mazurek, Sharon Meieran, Steve Millar, Ginny Mommsen, Saam Morshed, Katie Murphy, Teri Onouye, Nora Osman, Alex Papanastassiou, Shanti Perkins, Karla Petersen, Nira Pollock, Debbie Rabitz, Ilya Reiter, Anne Rosenthal, Cynthia Salinas, David Schab, Michael Singer, Jody Stonehocker, Maya Strange, June Tester, Nhi-ha Trinh, Aslan Turer, Renee Ward, Elijah Wasson, Amy Whitaker, Lynne-Love Williams, Gillian Yeo, John Young, and Althaea Yronwode. I’d especially like to thank Jody Stonehocker and Denise Albert-Grimaldo, my role models on surgery and medicine, respectively. All of the above, directly or indirectly, gave suggestions or spurred ideas that have entered this document. I am grateful for their wisdom and for having shared various parts of my med school experiences with them. None of them, however, should be held responsible for any content in this text, and any mistakes, particularities, or editorial comments are solely my own. I would also like to thank my many teachers over the past three years, and especially Dan Lowenstein, whose knowledge, compassion, and sheer mensch-iness have been an enormous inspiration to me, and Meg Newman, for her endless support and kindness. I also want to thank my med school big sib, Britt Swor-Yim, and "adopted" sib, Gabriela Diaz-Sullivan, for always looking out for me, and my little sib, the most excellent Ted Scott, who is the reason I compiled these notes. In Tibetan Buddhism, the practice of medicine and spiritual training are one and the same: All medical knowledge is ultimately attributed to the Buddha, in his form as Bhaisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha. May every person pursuing the medical arts accumulate magnificent wisdom and endless compassion in the service of their patients.