ROUNDS: the ritual whereby a senior doctor goes from bed to bed seeing patients, trailed by a gaggle of students. ROUNDSMANSHIP: the art of distinguishing oneself from the gaggle with relentless displays of erudition. WASHINGTON -- The roundsman is the guy who, with the class huddled at the bed of a patient who has developed a rash after taking penicillin, raises his hand to ask the professor -- obnoxious ingratiation is best expressed in the form of a question -- whether this might not instead be a case of Shmendrick's Syndrome reported in the latest issue of the Journal of...