NEURO CONSULT — b20260916-27SERIES: TIME IS BRAINTHE STROKE NEUROLOGIST
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Night float, day four.

Night float, day four. I have started answering the phone with "this is neurology" before I know whether it rang. Twice it had not. send this to whoever is covering nights

ACCURACY CHECK

No clinical claim; a description of conditioned response and phantom-ring phenomena during sustained on-call work.

No clinical claim; conditioned response / phantom ring during sustained call. Dark_insider lane — reviewed in full: the target is the doctor's own state, never a patient.
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