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An oil painting of Sims showed Dr. J. Marion Sims holding his history-making speculum in a makeshift Alabama surgery. He is flanked by two assistants and “three worried slave women who would serve as his initial subjects

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In race car driving, running or any other sport where sustained energy is required, a simple philosophy underpins any, and all, strategy. If you go too hard, for too long, you’ll run out of gas. No matter how well-disciplined or well-prepared you thought you were, the same equation can ring true for any medical student.

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