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...they come up with these names?), travel instead to Rochester, Minn., and the Mayo Clinic. In Dr. Darryl Chutka's classroom, the 10 first-year medical students look a little different from what you might expect. They're all wearing goggles coated in a clear film, ear plugs, heavy rubber gloves, extra-thick socks. They also have marshmallows stuffed in their mouths, corn kernels scattered inside their shoes, stiff, confining braces around their necks--and enormous, padded diapers stuffed inside their underclothes...
...aging game; what's harder is performing the various tasks Chutka demands of the students, like reading the labels on a vast array of prescription containers when you're wearing goggles, or counting out the daily ration of pills with fingers rendered numb by a sheath of glove rubber. Near the course's end, the students are placed in a mock nursing home, where other students, trained to act like ward attendants, fail to bring them their food, or shove spoonfuls of apple sauce into mouths rendered immobile by the marshmallows or ignore them altogether. "They wheeled me into...
...with Radcliffe on certain appointments, such as the selection of House masters. Once Harvard had made a selection for such a position, Lewis would venture up Garden Street to Radcliffe Yard and climb the steps of Fay House to get what he says he felt was akin to a rubber stamp of approval...
...found a signed Sarah Jessica Parker rubber duck on eBay for $50. Tell me I wasn't suckered...
...think I've ever signed a rubber duck in my life...