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Marco laughed. Then he cried. Then, because he had nothing left, he memorized the duck-themed mnemonics.

Marco’s hand trembled. He circled A duck sitting on your chest . quackprep.ort

Question 42: “Placenta previa is dangerous because:” — and there it was, verbatim from the PDF’s wrong answer — “It can cause painless third-trimester bleeding.” Marco laughed

That night, he tried to revisit the site. quackprep.ort now displayed a single sentence: “The duck has left the pond. You’re on your own now.” Marco’s hand trembled

Marco never told anyone about the website. But for the rest of his career, whenever a patient described chest pressure, he’d think: Is it a duck? And then he’d order an EKG anyway — just in case.

Marco had been awake for forty hours. His laptop screen glowed with the absurdly cheerful logo of — a duck wearing a mortarboard, winking. The tagline: “We won’t make you smarter. We’ll make you luckier.”

The next morning, he walked into the exam hall. Question one: “Which of the following is NOT a sign of myocardial infarction?” Options: Jaw pain, Nausea, Feeling of impending doom, A duck sitting on your chest.