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ResourceRandom Education: Hyperthyroidism vs. Hypothyroidism
In this Random Education installment, Flanary teaches hyperthyroidism versus hypothyroidism by casting Surgery as the hyperthyroid …
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ResourceThe Best Surgery Starts Before the Operating Room
A short teaser for Brecka's conversation with an orthopedic surgeon about why the best surgery starts before the operating room. The …
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ResourceGlaucomflecken General | Episode 3
A brief Glaucomflecken General episode moving from an operating room, where a medical student who wants psychiatry is pressured to …
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ResourceGlaucomflecken General | Episode 2
An episode of the fictional Glaucomflecken General hospital series, built around a reluctant surgical consult for suspected …
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ResourceScalpel Measuring Contest
Two surgeons compete in an escalating bragging contest about who has operated longer, slept and eaten less, and damaged their body …
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ResourceUnited Healthcare Interrupts Surgery
UnitedHealthcare calls into an operating room mid-procedure to withdraw approval for a post-operative admission it had already …
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ResourceThe Great IV Fluid Shortage
At a faculty meeting, administrators announce that an IV fluid shortage will cancel all elective surgeries for two weeks. The …
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ResourceOperating Room Funeral
This sketch stages a solemn funeral in the operating room suite where colleagues gather to support a grieving surgeon. The deceased, …
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ResourceSurgical Complications
In a more serious sketch, a surgical resident shaken by a complication that the resident blames on himself seeks out a senior …
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ResourceWhere to Stand in the OR
In this Arabic-captioned sketch, a new medical student on his first surgery day is repeatedly directed farther and farther from the …
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ResourceConversation Starters While Scrubbing for Surgery With Your Attending
A medical student fills the awkward silence of scrubbing in beside an attending with a stream of small talk, jokes, and confessions. …
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ResourceThe Surgeon Apologizes
A general surgeon accidentally apologizes for being late, and Flanary builds the whole sketch around colleagues treating a sincere …
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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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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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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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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 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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