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ResourceOrtho Artificial Intelligence
An administrator confronts Ortho about using artificial intelligence to write progress notes, citing unusually eloquent, grammatical …
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ResourceDr. Glaucomflecken Tries Vegemite
A non-skit travel video in which Flanary, on a family trip to Australia, tries Vegemite on toast on camera for the first time. He …
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ResourceThe Ophthalmologist Goes to Australia
At a faculty meeting, the ophthalmologist announces he and Jonathan will skip a mandatory wellness retreat for a vacation in …
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ResourceDesert Island Faculty Meeting
In this Arabic-captioned faculty-meeting sketch, personified specialties do a team-building exercise about what they would bring to …
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ResourceMed Student vs Brain
Flanary personifies a medical student's own brain as a tormentor who wakes the student the night before an exam and insists that …
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ResourceMatch Day Phone Calls Part 2
In this second Match Day phone-call sketch, newly matched students are welcomed by a rapid rotation of specialties, each revealing …
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ResourceJimothy Takes a Trip
Jimothy, the UnitedHealthcare administrative assistant, narrates how burnout from denying claims drove him to travel to Canada for …
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ResourceRural Medicine Goes to Therapy
A university psychiatrist visits a rural community for a therapy-style session with the Rural Medicine character, encountering …
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ResourceHospital Pharmacy Phone Calls
Bill visits a hospital pharmacy and cannot get his question asked because pharmacists are fielding constant calls correcting orders …
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ResourceBanning Non-compete Clauses
Flanary plays a hospital administrator and his employee Timothy in a satire about efforts to ban non-compete clauses. The …
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ResourceOrtho Rounds
Orthopedic rounds are run like a workout, with fracture updates rewarded in push-ups, burpees, and kettlebells and finished in …
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ResourceAnesthesia Helps Out Emergency Medicine
An anesthesiologist is lured to the emergency department to help with a trauma intubation and discovers the emergency physician has …
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ResourcePrivate Equity Bathroom Breaks
Private equity character Bartholomew Banks confronts a physician for spending eleven minutes in the bathroom, far longer than a …
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ResourceNeurology and Neurosurgery go to Therapy
Neurology and Neurosurgery are brought to joint therapy and immediately trade insults about reflex testing, egos, and who …
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ResourceHealth Insurance Denials
A health insurance call-center employee fields a customer's denial, offering a rotating set of explanations in the sketch: the …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Rural Medicine Interview
This mock rural medicine interview judges an overdressed applicant by community standards: formal overalls would have done, locals …
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ResourceImaging Rounds
Radiology rounds are staged as a punitive quiz where new trainees learn to correct orders, expect every post-operative orthopedic …
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ResourceMed School Rankings
Flanary personifies the staff behind a major medical school rankings publication, panicking as prominent schools including Harvard, …
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ResourceDental Insurance Doesn’t Make Sense
Jimothy questions his insurance boss about why dental coverage is separated from medical coverage, and Flanary uses the exchange to …
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ResourceTrip to the Eye Doctor (re-enactment of a story by comedian Geneva Copeland)
Flanary re-enacts a stand-up story by comedian Geneva Copeland about trying to buy glasses with a long-expired prescription. The …
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ResourceConversation Starters While Scrubbing for Surgery With Your Attending
A medical student fills the awkward silence of scrubbing in beside an attending with a stream of small talk, jokes, and confessions. …
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ResourceJonathan Goes to Therapy
Jonathan, the ophthalmologist's loyal scribe, sits for a therapy session and Flanary flips the dynamic so the psychiatrist ends up …
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ResourceMed Student Tribunal
A mock tribunal of medical students puts an internal medicine attending on trial for refusing to dismiss a student who hinted at …
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ResourceNew Year’s Resolutions
A faculty meeting reviews last year's New Year's resolutions specialty by specialty, and Flanary measures each character against a …
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