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ResourceHow To Deal With Surgeons
A new anesthesia resident's first lesson is not intubation but surgeon management. Flanary's attending explains that surgeons, as …
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ResourceMed Student’s Last Day of General Surgery
On his last day of general surgery, a medical student is praised as the finest retractor the attending has seen in over a decade, …
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ResourceTikTok Is Getting Banned!
A UnitedHealthcare executive celebrates news of a TikTok ban because, as Flanary scripts it, the platform is where the public learns …
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ResourceMy Thoughts On The United Healthcare CEO Murder
In a direct-to-camera commentary rather than a sketch, Flanary responds to the murder of the UnitedHealthcare chief executive. He …
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ResourceNo More General Anesthesia
Flanary plays an anesthesiologist confronting Jimothy, a recurring insurance employee character, over a new insurer rule that would …
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ResourceHow To Ace Your PM&R Interview
Flanary stages a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency interview in which every answer is framed around function, gait, …
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ResourceWhat’s Your Favorite Bone?
Ortho rounds turn into a roundtable where each trainee must name a favorite bone and defend it, complete with a talking-bone rule …
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ResourceMost Impractical Glasses in TV and Movies
Playing a board-certified ophthalmologist, Flanary reviews famously impractical glasses from film and television, starting with an …
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ResourceInfectious Disease’s Second Brain | pRxcision
This sponsored-style sketch has Infectious Disease discover that overnight antibiotic choices have suddenly become appropriate, and …
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ResourceThe Great IV Fluid Shortage
At a faculty meeting, administrators announce that an IV fluid shortage will cancel all elective surgeries for two weeks. The …
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ResourceCigna Sues The Government
In this satire sketch, insurance employee Jimothy learns his boss wants to sue the federal government after a lengthy FTC …
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ResourceThe Ophthalmologist Commits Fraud
Despite its title, this sketch is about documentation rather than a fraud scheme. An ophthalmologist is confronted over more than a …
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ResourceTopical Antisepsis | NEJM
A short journal-club style sketch has a colleague walk the Ortho Bro character through a New England Journal of Medicine study on …
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ResourceInternal Medicine Comes Up With a Plan
Emergency Medicine presses Internal Medicine for an admission plan for a patient, and Internal Medicine responds with layers of …
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ResourceFluoride Toothpaste…Or Else
This sketch casts a menacing dentist character, presenting himself as the dissenting fifth dentist, who confronts a care team about …
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ResourceThe Residency Interview
A residency interview goes off the rails when the interviewer discovers the applicant has no research or publications, having spent …
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ResourceThe Olympic Infectious Disease Specialist
An infectious disease specialist descends on the Olympics, demanding cultures of gym equipment, scolding staff for weak cleaning of …
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ResourceThe Bespectacled Olympic Gymnast
Flanary speaks directly to camera, not in a sketch, about US Olympic gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik and the vision conditions behind his …
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ResourceNo Stupid Questions
A critical care attending invites questions on rounds by insisting there are no stupid ones, and the trainees unleash a rapid-fire …
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ResourceOperating Room Funeral
This sketch stages a solemn funeral in the operating room suite where colleagues gather to support a grieving surgeon. The deceased, …
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ResourceThe Epic Problem List
Personified Epic executives panic that bloated patient problem lists, full of decades-old, duplicated, and contradictory entries, …
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ResourceMedicare Shenanigans
In this sketch Jimothy questions a government boss about cutting physician Medicare reimbursement again, and the boss treats the …
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ResourceThe On Call Radiologist
Flanary plays the lone on-call radiologist for an entire hospital, fielding a night of impatient and unreasonable calls from …
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ResourceInternal Medicine Orders Lunch
Internal Medicine tries to order lunch during rounds and turns a simple choice into an endless differential: options are considered, …
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