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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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ResourceThe Ophthalmologist Gives a Commencement Address
This is Flanary's full commencement address to Yale medical graduates, mixing specialty jokes with a personal account of surviving …
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ResourceThe Ophthalmologist Goes to Therapy
The Ophthalmologist attends therapy for overreliance on his scribe Jonathan, beginning with panic when a questionnaire must be …
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ResourceThe Neurologist Calls His Dad
A neurologist calls his father for Father's Day and the conversation becomes a duel of neuroanatomy-based insults about rank, …
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ResourceHow to Get an MRI
A doctor calls the prior authorization line for a brain MRI for a patient with symptoms the sketch describes as concerning for a …
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ResourceThe Golden Consult Award
An emergency physician receives a Golden Consult Award for achieving what scholars in the sketch thought impossible: a perfect …
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ResourceThe Neurologist has Competition
A neurologist returns to find the hospital has hired another neurologist, and the two bond instantly through shared opinions. …
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ResourceHow to Speak Jonathan
Emergency staff cannot interpret an eye problem or get words from the ophthalmologist, who communicates only through Jonathan's …
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ResourceFlesh Covered Bags of Money
During CPR and AED awareness week, Jimothy asks his insurance boss to approve defibrillator claims, and the boss explains a …
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ResourceCouples Therapy: Cardiology and Nephrology
Cardiology and nephrology are sent to couples therapy after a fluid fight that left one soaked in saline and the other with an EKG …
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ResourceThe Future of Medicine
A private equity character calling himself Bartholomeo Banks offers to take over a struggling emergency department, arguing it loses …
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ResourceMonkeypox
Clinicians gossip about a new virus called monkeypox while an infectious disease legend is introduced with exaggerated feats, from …
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ResourceThe Pathologist Goes to Therapy
Presented here with Arabic captions, the personified pathologist arrives at therapy early, rested, and delighted with work, …
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ResourceHappy Bonus Day
In an insurer's office, staff present their chief executive with a cake to celebrate a large bonus, while recurring insurance …
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ResourceTurnover Time
Flanary plays a surgeon narrating the agony of operating-room turnover time, the gap between cases while staff reset the room. The …
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ResourceDivide and Conquer
An administrator announcing another round of budget cuts accidentally unites the staff, first around unionizing and then around …
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ResourceThe Ophthalmologist gets COVID
The ophthalmologist calls in sick with COVID and admits to an administrator that he misunderstood an airborne precautions sign as a …
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