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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (3935)	5/21/2004 10:20:26 PM
From: MJ	Respond to of 4710

Wonderful humor!! Still laughing. Gave my insides a good jogging!! What would a doctor do with that concept-----insides a good jogging? mj

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (3935)	6/16/2004 1:30:50 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Hi Holly: Sorry for delayed response. I just got home from a two-weeks hospital stay as a recipient of some of my own medicine, or more accurately, surgery. (Perhaps that should be "two week's stay" or even "two weeks' stay"?) Increasingly, hospitals require us to transcribe verbatim) I think this is for the usual lawsuit-avoidance reasons. If the transcriptionist takes it upon herself to change anything, even an egregious grammatical error, then she or her employer may become named in the suit. As ridiculous as it may sound, this is reality today. With regard to medical students' lack of English teaching, I am afraid it's more widespread than that. I was lucky in my day to be able to get into Medical School with a French major. They actually kind of liked it that I wasn't just another Biology major. Nowadays, the premedical students are heavily science oriented, because of competition, so there's now no way to make up in college for the universal high school English neglect. Best wishes, as always, Jack