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ResourceThe Neurologist Calls His Dad
A neurologist calls his father for Father's Day and the conversation becomes a duel of neuroanatomy-based insults about rank, …
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ResourceHow to Get an MRI
A doctor calls the prior authorization line for a brain MRI for a patient with symptoms the sketch describes as concerning for a …
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ResourceThe Golden Consult Award
An emergency physician receives a Golden Consult Award for achieving what scholars in the sketch thought impossible: a perfect …
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ResourceThe Neurologist has Competition
A neurologist returns to find the hospital has hired another neurologist, and the two bond instantly through shared opinions. …
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ResourceHow to Speak Jonathan
Emergency staff cannot interpret an eye problem or get words from the ophthalmologist, who communicates only through Jonathan's …
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ResourceFlesh Covered Bags of Money
During CPR and AED awareness week, Jimothy asks his insurance boss to approve defibrillator claims, and the boss explains a …
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ResourceCouples Therapy: Cardiology and Nephrology
Cardiology and nephrology are sent to couples therapy after a fluid fight that left one soaked in saline and the other with an EKG …
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ResourceWhat the Hell Wednesday (Saturday)
A long-form What the Hell Wednesday livestream recorded on a Saturday from a Denver hotel, with Flanary answering chat questions …
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ResourceThe Future of Medicine
A private equity character calling himself Bartholomeo Banks offers to take over a struggling emergency department, arguing it loses …
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ResourceMonkeypox
Clinicians gossip about a new virus called monkeypox while an infectious disease legend is introduced with exaggerated feats, from …
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ResourceThe Pathologist Goes to Therapy
Presented here with Arabic captions, the personified pathologist arrives at therapy early, rested, and delighted with work, …
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ResourceHappy Bonus Day
In an insurer's office, staff present their chief executive with a cake to celebrate a large bonus, while recurring insurance …
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ResourceTurnover Time
Flanary plays a surgeon narrating the agony of operating-room turnover time, the gap between cases while staff reset the room. The …
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ResourceDivide and Conquer
An administrator announcing another round of budget cuts accidentally unites the staff, first around unionizing and then around …
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ResourceThe Ophthalmologist gets COVID
The ophthalmologist calls in sick with COVID and admits to an administrator that he misunderstood an airborne precautions sign as a …
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ResourceCouples Therapy: Anesthesia and Surgery
Anesthesia and Surgery are sent to couples therapy for stealing each other's comfort items, hiding equipment, and blaming each other …
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ResourcePrior Authorizations For Everybody!
Jimothy's boss wants to require prior authorization for every cataract surgery to delay care and hold onto premiums, and Flanary …
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ResourceEverybody Wants a Jonathan
During Jonathan office hours, department after department tries to borrow the ophthalmology scribe for night shifts, discharge …
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ResourceThe Annual Faculty Easter Egg Hunt
An annual faculty Easter egg hunt becomes a vehicle for Flanary to roast every specialty by how it searches: pathology wins again, …
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ResourceHow to Publish a Manuscript
A researcher ready to publish is rushed into signing away copyright after months of silence, repeated revisions, and existential …
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ResourceDon’t Be Late to the OR
A medical student narrates arriving for a surgery rotation and becoming trapped in a hospital stairwell after a key card fails. …
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ResourceThe Cure for Burnout
Colleagues find Bill, the hospitalist character, collapsed under an unchecked post-rounds task list and bring in Family Medicine, …
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ResourceAnesthesia Receives Bad News
An anesthesiologist learns she is being reassigned for the day to cover ophthalmology cases and reacts with dread, offering to work …
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ResourceBill Orders Antibiotics
Flanary plays a pharmacy encounter where Bill, a hospitalist character, asks for a very broad-spectrum antibiotic to treat an …
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