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ResourceThe Nephrologist Takes a Trip
A nephrologist narrates a pilgrimage away from dialysis units, acid-base problems, pagers, and fluid orders in search of …
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ResourceHalloween with the Neurologist
A neurologist runs a Halloween haunted house and gives trick-or-treaters lectures, reflex hammers, and neuroanatomy papers instead …
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ResourceThe Hospital is Losing Money
At a faculty meeting, administrators announce the financially struggling hospital will be sold to Bartholomew Banks of private …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Rheumatology Interview
A rheumatology interviewee arrives clutching journals and recounts falling in love during a surprise journal club at the DMV. …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Cardiology Interview
A mock cardiology interview has a candidate greet the interviewer with a hand-drawn EKG and trade reverent jokes about ejection …
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ResourceInfectious Disease Goes on a Hike
Flanary plays an infectious disease physician leading children on a hike where every river, animal, and insect prompts a lecture on …
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ResourceThe Reverse Tooth Fairy
Bill mentions tooth decay while presenting a head exam on rounds and is warned he has crossed into dentistry's territory. Flanary …
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ResourceHospital Fire Safety
When a fire breaks out in an operating room, staff cannot reliably recall the RACE fire safety protocol despite having completed …
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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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