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MAY 12, 2023

So-so Speaking


Originally published by our sister publication General Surgery News

By Mark Herndon, MD, FACS

A few years ago, while watching a sitcom, I made an unusual observation. I noticed that the “Thirtysomething” characters would start a conversation saying something like this: “So, I was standing in line at the coffee shop the other day.” It struck me that the writers had to write that word, “so” into the script, and that they did so because that is the way young