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Out-of-work actors do all sorts of jobs to pay the bills. Now you can even find some of them in hospitals, auditioning for parts that teach future doctors some valuable lessons. Stage and screen actor Neal Mayer has credits that run from One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest to CBS Blue Bloods. But these days, as CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports, his stage is a mock medical exam room at New York s Weill Cornell Medical College, equipped with cameras and microphones. Earning $25 an hour, Neal is playing a patient, and his co-star is real-life, second-year medical student Jessica Rubin.At the medical college, it s the student s performance that s being evaluated by a very small audience -- an instructor behind a two-way mirror. It s a way to help inexperienced students take what they learn in the classroom and apply it in an actu
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