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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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ResourceHow to Ace Your Radiology Residency Interview
Presented here with Arabic captions, this mock radiology interview features an applicant motivated by childhood x-ray glasses and a …
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ResourceThe Dermatologist Goes to the Beach
Flanary plays a dermatologist father taking his children to the beach as if entering a hazard zone. He insists on repeated sunscreen …
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ResourceThe Neurologist Goes to Therapy
The personified neurologist arrives at therapy exhibiting, in the therapist's framing, narcissism and a record of tormenting …
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ResourceThe Critical Care Ophthalmologist Goes on Vacation
The critical care ophthalmologist prepares to leave on vacation on a Thursday and is asked to help with a newly admitted ICU patient …
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ResourceThe Orthopedic Surgeon Goes to Therapy
In this therapy sketch, the personified orthopedic surgeon arrives anxious around medicine doctors and works through feeling mocked …
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ResourceThe Emergency Doctor Goes to Therapy
The personified emergency doctor arrives at therapy with reports of chasing residents with an ultrasound probe, inventing ways to …
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ResourceThe Ophthalmologist Hosts a Party
At a New Year's Eve party hosted by the ophthalmologist, Jonathan the scribe has arranged the celebration but eye safety dominates …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your General Surgery Residency Interview
This mock general surgery interview rewards an applicant who retracted through his own interview, disowned his internist parents, …
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ResourceThe Emergency Physician on a Snow Day
An emergency physician spends a snow day with neighborhood children and cannot stop anticipating injuries. In the Bengali caption …
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ResourceThe Anesthesiologist Goes to Therapy
In a therapy-session sketch, the personified Anesthesiologist deflects questions about conflicts with Surgery, including teasing a …
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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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