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ResourceCouples Therapy: Anesthesia and Surgery
Anesthesia and Surgery are sent to couples therapy for stealing each other's comfort items, hiding equipment, and blaming each other …
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ResourcePrior Authorizations For Everybody!
Jimothy's boss wants to require prior authorization for every cataract surgery to delay care and hold onto premiums, and Flanary …
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ResourceEverybody Wants a Jonathan
During Jonathan office hours, department after department tries to borrow the ophthalmology scribe for night shifts, discharge …
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ResourceThe Annual Faculty Easter Egg Hunt
An annual faculty Easter egg hunt becomes a vehicle for Flanary to roast every specialty by how it searches: pathology wins again, …
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ResourceHow to Publish a Manuscript
A researcher ready to publish is rushed into signing away copyright after months of silence, repeated revisions, and existential …
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ResourceDon’t Be Late to the OR
A medical student narrates arriving for a surgery rotation and becoming trapped in a hospital stairwell after a key card fails. …
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ResourceThe Cure for Burnout
Colleagues find Bill, the hospitalist character, collapsed under an unchecked post-rounds task list and bring in Family Medicine, …
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ResourceAnesthesia Receives Bad News
An anesthesiologist learns she is being reassigned for the day to cover ophthalmology cases and reacts with dread, offering to work …
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ResourceBill Orders Antibiotics
Flanary plays a pharmacy encounter where Bill, a hospitalist character, asks for a very broad-spectrum antibiotic to treat an …
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ResourceThe Pediatrician Goes to Therapy
The personified pediatrician comes to therapy accused of spending too much time in childhood's world: stickers, lollipops, juice …
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ResourceThe “Easy Going” Surgeon
A surgeon who insists he is easygoing proves the opposite for the entire sketch. Flanary's character issues a relentless stream of …
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ResourceUnited Healthcare celebrates Doctor’s Day!
A UnitedHealthcare executive decides to mark Doctor's Day by personally calling physicians with a greeting, ignoring his assistant …
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ResourceThe Neurosurgeon Goes to Therapy
The personified neurosurgeon attends therapy under administrative duress and reports a week of operating that began days earlier and …
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ResourceIntroducing the OB/GYN
A faculty meeting announces the hospital's first obstetrician-gynecologist, hired because its gynecology care was literally an …
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ResourceMatch Day Phone Calls
Newly matched students receive welcome calls from a parade of specialties, each revealing its culture in a few lines. Flanary has …
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ResourceNever Chart in the Emergency Department
Presented here with Arabic captions, an emergency doctor repeatedly tries to extract an informal opinion from a surgeon who is …
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ResourceThe Pediatrician Hosts a Kids Birthday Party
A pediatrician hosts a children's birthday party and cannot stop hazard-proofing it, lecturing on choking, button batteries, …
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ResourceNature Needs a Reviewer
A prestigious journal invites a researcher to review an article for free, offering prestige instead of pay, credit, or authorship, …
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ResourceHow to Speak Internal Medicine
Flanary personifies internal medicine as a team that cannot bring itself to say anything plainly. A trainee who calls imaging …
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ResourceFamily Medicine Goes to Therapy
Presented here with Arabic captions, this therapy sketch lists a single family medicine day: delivering a baby, admissions, …
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ResourceThe Residency Match
An employee of the residency matching organization is eager to run the match now that students have certified their rank lists, but …
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ResourceNew CDC Masking Guidelines
Flanary plays a CDC leader pitching relaxed indoor masking guidance to Jimothy, the recurring employee character, who pushes back …
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ResourceThe Critical Care Ophthalmologist Goes Home
After helping in the ICU during a COVID surge, the critical care ophthalmologist is told he can leave because dermatology will …
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ResourceBill Goes to Therapy
Bill, a resident, attends therapy and initially insists residency is fine before listing pagers, extreme hours, lost weekends, poor …
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