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As I finished a long and busy Saturday working call, I put a fresh set of scrubs in my locker and set my shoes in front of its door. I'd done this the previous week and hadn't gotten called back in. But I'd forgotten to the night before, and here I was. Great, I thought, I've just picked up a new obsessive-compulsive behavior. Or had I triggered a surgical superstition?
