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ResourceThe ICU Needs Help
This pandemic-era sketch satirizes desperate ICU staffing by having recruiters pitch medicine to a college student, then immediately …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Nephrology Interview
A nephrology interview parody features a candidate who claims brilliance, mathematical confidence, and mastery of terms like …
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ResourceThe Internal Medicine Doctor Goes to Therapy
The personified internal medicine doctor cannot sit down, stop examining, or stop rounding long enough to have therapy. Flanary …
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ResourceSurgery vs Anesthesia: Add-Ons
A surgeon tries to get anesthesia to accept an add-on case despite no time and short staffing, and the negotiation turns into a …
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ResourceA Message On Burnout, Featuring Dr. Vivek Murthy
When a missing nurse reveals how many nursing staff have been lost to burnout, the US Surgeon General, played in a guest appearance …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Pathology Residency Interview
Based on the title, this sketch is presented as a mock guide to succeeding in a pathology residency interview, with Flanary playing …
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ResourceThe General Surgeon Goes to Therapy
The General Surgeon arrives at mandated therapy expecting an award and is confronted with a list of recent workplace incidents, …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Pediatrics Residency Interview
This mock pediatrics interview is a live stress test: the applicant must swaddle a baby while examining children, counseling …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Ophthalmology Residency Interview
Flanary interviews his own specialty in this mock ophthalmology residency interview. The applicant is a proud nerd whose greatest …
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ResourceHow US Health Insurance Works
A patient calls an insurer, personified by Flanary, to ask why a hospital bill was not paid despite monthly premiums. The sketch …
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ResourceThe Cardiologist Goes to Therapy
Presented here with Arabic captions, this therapy sketch has the personified cardiologist coached, through a medical student …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Emergency Medicine Residency Interview
This mock interview defines emergency medicine through hyperactivity and dread. Flanary's applicant has no circadian rhythm, carries …
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ResourceMed Student Mafia - Work Hour Restrictions
Bill invokes old work-hour hardships to resist duty limits, and medical students answer that modern training carries far more …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Family Medicine Residency Interview
A parody residency interview shows Family Medicine hiring a candidate almost instantly after he embraces seeing many patients, …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Anesthesiology Residency Interview
This mock anesthesiology interview opens with trainees learning how to break bad news to surgeons about cancellations. Flanary's …
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ResourceThe Critical Care Ophthalmologist
Presented here with Arabic captions, a hospital facing severe staffing shortages during a surge of unvaccinated patients installs …
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ResourceHow to Ace your Ortho Residency Interview
The shortest interview in this set defines orthopedics in about a minute. Flanary's program director and applicant trade rapid …
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ResourceShowdown in Dialysis
A very short sketch opens mid-argument over why a patient with only a handful of functioning nephrons the day before is now …
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ResourceMen’s Health Month
Bill tries to place a urology consult during Men's Health Month, but every urology character who overhears him drops the consult to …
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ResourceWho Would You Fight? Part 1& 2
Doctors in this sketch debate which specialty they would choose to fight, trading stereotypes about anesthesia, internal medicine, …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Neurosurgery Residency Interview
This mock residency interview defines the neurosurgery stereotype in under ninety seconds. Flanary's applicant treats sleep as a …
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ResourceMed student's First Day - part 2
The second long compilation sends the medical student through more first days: anesthesia behind the drape, rheumatology, palliative …
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ResourceMed Student's First Day - Part 1
This long compilation follows a medical student through first days on many rotations, with each specialty personified by an …
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ResourceThe People Who Carry .40 S&W
Colion presents a satirical sketch examining people who choose to carry .40 caliber handguns. He frames .40 carriers as caught …
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