SEATTLE, WA – Seattle Memorial Hospital has dramatically reduced their rates of post-operative ileus and opioid-induced constipation by requiring that all patient bowel regimens include a daily tall Sixbucks coffee, dosed either PO or via an NG tube. Sixbucks, the Seattle-based coffee behemoth named after the average price of its specialty beverages, is delighted to be part of the new therapy, while hospital administrators are stunned that the most powerful cathartic known to man was hidden in plain sight, on every block in every city in the United States of America.

Dr. Richard Stueller, the Chairman of Gastroenterology at Seattle Memorial and mastermind of the program, was elated by the early results. Dr. Stueller explains, “The café-colic reflex is one of the most elegant systems of human physiology and has been described in the medical literature since the days of Hippocrates. The pro-motile force seen with coffee, is particularly powerful and only increases with the price of the cup. This is evident by the fact bathrooms in Sixbucks are almost perpetually either in use or out of order. I was actually waiting in line for the bathroom when the idea hit me!”
Sixbucks is also stands to profit immensely from their new wonder-laxative. They have pushed their coffee back through the FDA and will be rebranding it Excreta. Though already preposterously expensive at 2 dollars per cup, the new price of Excreta will be roughly $1,000 per tall serving and will not be covered by most insurance plans.
This exciting new initiative is the biggest change in bowel practice in the past 30 years. Up until now, the mainstays of defecation encouragement have been senna and Colace, which have proven to be prescribed mainly so that nurses can page the on-call resident at 3 a.m. with questions about their ordering or administration. With the introduction of Excreta one Seattle hospital can proudly say that they have moved on from the scourge of constipation.
In unrelated news, cases of patient profuse sweating and atrial fibrillation at Seattle Memorial are up 300%.
Nothing is stronger than Dulcolax
Nothing is stronger than Dulcolax
Wash the entereg down with coffee while pushing the reglan.
Ensure clear coffee supplement for our enhanced bowel protocol!
Tyler Munk
I didn’t drink coffee until recently. I had no idea that everyone who said they needed to go to the bathroom because their coffee had kicked in needed to poop. I thought liquid=pee.
So what would you call the Starbucks bucket enema size? Shiti?
I have been known to put warm coffee down a feeding tube :)
Or Moccona if they’re in private ;)
Or Moccona if they’re in private ;)
I could imagine doing an international roast round!
Michael Schilling
Jerry Jared!
I’m surprised there isn’t an Excreta PR dosing
Sweet! Day shift can get poop protocols started early. Hooray!
~ Eric “everybody shi** by end of shift, no excuses.”
Agree with Carole. I think it’s legit. We Rx them amphetamines so why not coffee!
Agree with Carole. I think it’s legit. We Rx them amphetamines so why not coffee!
works for me!
Works for me!
I see kids drinking coffee in coffeehouses all the time. Why not?
Haha! Should we change our bowel protocol?
True
Karen Walsh , Amy Joyce Misch
Ashley Martella Eric Hope
Lmao this was a good one!
Another factual article on what is supposed to be a satire site!
Just the fact that it is $6 a cup would make me go!
Coffee withdrawals may cause anxiety, anger and lack of sense of humor…..just saying. ;-)
Coffee withdrawals may cause anxiety, anger and lack of sense of humor…..just saying. ;-)
Lol! Coffee works. If I even take Excedrin Migraine, (that has caffeine in it), I can’t stop going……lol
Lol! Coffee works. If I even take Excedrin Migraine, (that has caffeine in it), I can’t stop going……lol
This. Is. Awesome! Meaghan Fleschner Barry
This. Is. Awesome! Meaghan Fleschner Barry
Jennifer Reinhardt
Jennifer Reinhardt
*sips morning coffee*
*sips morning coffee*
Lara Brower
Lara Brower
Laura Nepple, dunkins iced coffee?? Lol
Laura Nepple, dunkins iced coffee?? Lol
Sometimes the first time people see something from this blog or The Onion or The Spud . . they think it is real. I love satire – it really helps make the point!
Sometimes the first time people see something from this blog or The Onion or The Spud . . they think it is real. I love satire – it really helps make the point!
Rachel Carty Moehlmann
Rachel Carty Moehlmann
this is satire.
this is satire.
I didn’t interpret any nurse slam in this satirical story.
Respectfully,
RN Colleague
I didn’t interpret any nurse slam in this satirical story.
Respectfully,
RN Colleague
I didn’t see an insult to Nurses, or Murses either for that matter. Did you read the article….the satire article….LOL?!?
You joke but i desperately wish i could prescribe coffee to my constipated pediatic patients!
Really, you felt the need to insult nurses??? Not humorous.
Did they hire a colonic barista ?