Walmart Rounds Helping Train Nation's Young Doctors.

Little Rock, AK - Doctors at the University of Arkansas Medical Center celebrated the three year anniversary of Walmart Rounds on Friday, a one-of-a-kind initiative exposing student doctors to a wide variety of conditions rarely seen anywhere else in the world.Attending physicians, residents, interns and medical students  from most specialities have donned their white coats and headed to their favorite local Walmart isle for the last three years to observe the stunning pathology of Walmartians in their natural environment."During Walmart rounds, we try and tell our students to be as discrete as possible whenever they discover a horse or a zebra, but sometimes their excitement overcomes them," said attending Neurologist Dr. Krzesimir Bednarczyk."Just last week one of my gunners in isle three started yelling back to the team 'Here comes a hemochromatosis with a lupus rash, even though it was clearly just an old lady with a bad tan.'"When the Rheumatologists heard about a possible case of lupus heading their way,  they laughed and chuckled arrogantly.  "I teach all my fellows that nobody has lupus unless we say they do," said Dr. George Bostinza, the Rheumatologist known best for his shirt 'Why the Hell did you order a sed rate anyway?' "We also had to put up a sign that says 'If  you're here for fibromyalgia, STOP!  Turn around and go back.  Fibromyalgia is a primary care disease.'"But FP would have no part of it.  By punting every s...
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