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ResourceIt’s Residency Application Season!
This Arabic-captioned sketch stages a celebratory office party for the opening of the ERAS residency application system, with …
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ResourceFirst Day of Neonatology
A new trainee starts in the neonatal intensive care unit and learns that premature infants receive caffeine to reduce apnea, and …
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ResourceThe Rural Medicine Barter System
A visitor asks whether rural doctors earn more, and the Rural Medicine character answers by showing a clinic economy that runs on …
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ResourcePediatrics Faculty Meeting
A pediatrics faculty meeting, played by Flanary as multiple specialties, opens with a collection to buy basic equipment the hospital …
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ResourceHow to Order a Medication
A clinician tries to get coverage for a prescribed medication, an EpiPen for a child with severe peanut allergy, and Flanary stages …
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ResourceHappy Birthday, OB/GYN
The faculty realize they forgot the OB/GYN's birthday and scramble to assemble a gift from whatever each specialty has on hand. …
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ResourceThe Standardized Patient
A student arrives for a timed neurological exam on a standardized patient who turns out to be anything but standard, grading the …
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ResourceBig News in Academic Publishing!
A publishing executive tears up a journal in outrage after the government moves to stop publishers charging for publicly funded …
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ResourceThe Ophthalmologist and Jonathan Take Call
On call without Jonathan immediately available, the ophthalmologist fields a call about flashes and floaters and tries to extract a …
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ResourceThe Emotional Support Rep
In an operating room, a trainee learns that alongside the device representative teaching a surgeon to use new equipment, there is an …
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ResourceThe Farmer Pain Scale
Set in a stretched rural clinic, this sketch introduces a comic pain scale based on stoicism: a farmer who stops work, leaves a …
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ResourceHappy Birthday, Family Medicine
Other specialties throw a surprise birthday party for Family Medicine, who arrives late after a busy day as what he calls the …
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ResourceIntern’s First Order
A new orthopedic surgery intern calls pharmacy to double-check his first order, for acetaminophen, and the pharmacist patiently …
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ResourceHow to Order IV Fluids
A nephrologist lies in wait listening for bad IV fluid orders and catches the orthopedic surgeon admitting his own patient with a …
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ResourceThe Middlemen of Healthcare
Jimothy asks his boss at a large insurer how drug costs could be lowered and is directed to a pharmacy benefit manager, only to …
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ResourceFirst Day of Rural Medicine
A medical student arrives for a first day of rural medicine and finds one doctor doing nearly everything: delivering babies, …
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ResourcePrivate Equity Buys Anesthesia
Flanary stages a pitch in which Bartholomew Banks, his recurring private equity character, approaches an anesthesiologist frustrated …
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ResourceHow to Cancel a Surgery
An anesthesia trainee learns a core skill that has nothing to do with physiology: telling a surgeon an operation is cancelled …
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ResourceThe Psychiatrist Goes to Therapy
After a therapy session with Orthopedics, the Psychiatrist is confronted by his own inner voice in a mirror, accusing him of tending …
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ResourceBill Does a Lumbar Puncture
Bill reports a lumbar puncture result as unremarkable and is immediately interrogated by Neurology, who demands protein, glucose, …
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ResourceAn American Gets Health Care Abroad
An American patient receives care abroad and cannot process the absence of a bill. Flanary's visitor keeps offering payment details …
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ResourceOrtho Learns a Lesson
An orthopedic surgeon teaching students works through the limbs and dismisses the spine, ribs, and sternum as medicine bones, then …
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ResourceMed Student Mafia: The July Effect
Bill repeats the idea of a dangerous July effect when new interns start, and medical students confront him with evidence. Flanary, …
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Resource4th of July Weekend Call
Emergency Medicine introduces the on-call team for Fourth of July weekend, when the public experiments with explosives and alcohol. …
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