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ResourceHow to Ace Your Infectious Disease Interview
This mock infectious disease interview celebrates a specialty built on shaming other doctors' antibiotic choices. Flanary's …
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ResourceHealth Care Worker Fired Over Vaccine Mandate
Flanary plays a health care worker being escorted out on her last day for refusing a vaccine mandate, listing everything she says …
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ResourceA Day in the Life of Jonathan
Flanary narrates a mock day in the life of Jonathan, his ophthalmology scribe, who arrives before the doctor, prepares clinic, …
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ResourceAcademic Journals Doing Crime
Flanary plays a journal leader pitching open access publishing to an employee, revealing a very high author fee justified by vague …
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ResourceThe Orthopedic Surgeon Goes to Therapy
In this therapy sketch, the personified orthopedic surgeon arrives anxious around medicine doctors and works through feeling mocked …
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ResourceChecking in with the CDC
In this CDC sketch, Jimothy urges his boss to revisit unpopular pandemic guidance and address controversial remarks, but the boss is …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Critical Care Interview
Presented here with Arabic captions, this mock critical care interview is run by an attending so exhausted he slaps himself awake …
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ResourceMandatory Wellness
Doctors realize they have been lured into a room where the doors and windows are locked until they complete mandatory wellness and …
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ResourceNew CDC Guidelines: Part 2
This Arabic-captioned CDC sketch has Jimothy reporting to his boss that the public finds the agency's new guidelines confusing, …
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ResourceThe Emergency Doctor Goes to Therapy
The personified emergency doctor arrives at therapy with reports of chasing residents with an ultrasound probe, inventing ways to …
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ResourceThe Ophthalmologist Hosts a Party
At a New Year's Eve party hosted by the ophthalmologist, Jonathan the scribe has arranged the celebration but eye safety dominates …
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ResourceNew CDC Guidelines: Part 1
Flanary personifies public health leadership tasking Jimothy with new COVID isolation guidelines. The boss shortens quarantine from …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your General Surgery Residency Interview
This mock general surgery interview rewards an applicant who retracted through his own interview, disowned his internist parents, …
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ResourceWhat the Hell Wednesday
A long-form What the Hell Wednesday livestream from Flanary's guest room, hampered comically by doing his own setup without …
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ResourceThe Emergency Physician on a Snow Day
An emergency physician spends a snow day with neighborhood children and cannot stop anticipating injuries. In the Bengali caption …
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ResourceFaculty Secret Santa
The ophthalmologist and Jonathan take over a faculty Secret Santa after almost no one replies, handing each specialty a gag gift …
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ResourceJonathan Saves the Day
On rounds, an exhausted intern reaches for eye drops and Jonathan the scribe intervenes in a moment the team frames as lifesaving. …
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ResourceBill Gets a Holiday Gift
Bill goes to collect his holiday gift from hospital administration and is offered something described as PTO that turns out to be …
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ResourceThe Anesthesiologist Goes to Therapy
In a therapy-session sketch, the personified Anesthesiologist deflects questions about conflicts with Surgery, including teasing a …
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ResourceThe ICU Needs Help
This pandemic-era sketch satirizes desperate ICU staffing by having recruiters pitch medicine to a college student, then immediately …
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ResourceWhat The Hell Wednesday
A long-form livestream in the recurring What the Hell Wednesday format, where Flanary speaks as himself rather than in character. He …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Nephrology Interview
A nephrology interview parody features a candidate who claims brilliance, mathematical confidence, and mastery of terms like …
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ResourceThe Internal Medicine Doctor Goes to Therapy
The personified internal medicine doctor cannot sit down, stop examining, or stop rounding long enough to have therapy. Flanary …
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ResourceSurgery vs Anesthesia: Add-Ons
A surgeon tries to get anesthesia to accept an add-on case despite no time and short staffing, and the negotiation turns into a …
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